Scikit-LLM: Sklearn Meets Large Language Models

Seamlessly integrate powerful language models like ChatGPT into scikit-learn for enhanced text analysis tasks.

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pip install scikit-llm

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Documentation 📚

Configuring OpenAI API Key

At the moment the majority of the Scikit-LLM estimators are only compatible with some of the OpenAI models. Hence, a user-provided OpenAI API key is required.

from skllm.config import SKLLMConfig

SKLLMConfig.set_openai_key("<YOUR_KEY>")
SKLLMConfig.set_openai_org("<YOUR_ORGANISATION>")

Important notice:

• If you have a free trial OpenAI account, the rate limits are not sufficient (specifically 3 requests per minute). Please switch to the "pay as you go" plan first.
• When calling SKLLMConfig.set_openai_org, you have to provide your organization ID and NOT the name. You can find your ID here.

Using GPT4ALL

In addition to OpenAI, some of the models can use gpt4all as a backend.

This feature is considered higly experimental!

In order to use gpt4all, you need to install the corresponding submodule:

pip install "scikit-llm[gpt4all]"

In order to switch from OpenAI to GPT4ALL model, simply provide a string of the format gpt4all::<model_name> as an argument. While the model runs completely locally, the estimator still treats it as an OpenAI endpoint and will try to check that the API key is present. You can provide any string as a key.

SKLLMConfig.set_openai_key("any string")
SKLLMConfig.set_openai_org("any string")

ZeroShotGPTClassifier(openai_model="gpt4all::ggml-gpt4all-j-v1.3-groovy")

When running for the first time, the model file will be downloaded automatially.

At the moment only the following estimators support gpt4all as a backend:

• ZeroShotGPTClassifier
• MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier
• FewShotGPTClassifier

When using gpt4all please keep the following in mind:

1. Not all gpt4all models are commercially licensable, please consult gpt4all website for more details.
2. The accuracy of the models may be much lower compared to ones provided by OpenAI (especially gpt-4).
3. Not all of the available models were tested, some may not work with scikit-llm at all.

Zero-Shot Text Classification

One of the powerful ChatGPT features is the ability to perform text classification without being re-trained. For that, the only requirement is that the labels must be descriptive.

We provide a class ZeroShotGPTClassifier that allows to create such a model as a regular scikit-learn classifier.

Example 1: Training as a regular classifier

from skllm import ZeroShotGPTClassifier
from skllm.datasets import get_classification_dataset

# demo sentiment analysis dataset
# labels: positive, negative, neutral
X, y = get_classification_dataset()

clf = ZeroShotGPTClassifier(openai_model="gpt-3.5-turbo")
clf.fit(X, y)
labels = clf.predict(X)

Scikit-LLM will automatically query the OpenAI API and transform the response into a regular list of labels.

Additionally, Scikit-LLM will ensure that the obtained response contains a valid label. If this is not the case, a label will be selected randomly (label probabilities are proportional to label occurrences in the training set).

Example 2: Training without labeled data

Since the training data is not strictly required, it can be fully ommited. The only thing that has to be provided is the list of candidate labels.

from skllm import ZeroShotGPTClassifier
from skllm.datasets import get_classification_dataset

X, _ = get_classification_dataset()

clf = ZeroShotGPTClassifier()
clf.fit(None, ["positive", "negative", "neutral"])
labels = clf.predict(X)

Note: unlike in a typical supervised setting, the performance of a zero-shot classifier greatly depends on how the label itself is structured. It has to be expressed in natural language, be descriptive and self-explanatory. For example, in the previous semantic classification task, it could be beneficial to transform a label from "<semantics>" to "the semantics of the provided text is <semantics>".

Multi-Label Zero-Shot Text Classification

With a class MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier it is possible to perform the classification in multi-label setting, which means that each sample might be assigned to one or several distinct classes.

Example:

from skllm import MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier
from skllm.datasets import get_multilabel_classification_dataset

X, y = get_multilabel_classification_dataset()

clf = MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier(max_labels=3)
clf.fit(X, y)
labels = clf.predict(X)

Similarly to the ZeroShotGPTClassifier it is sufficient if only candidate labels are provided. However, this time the classifier expects y of a type List[List[str]].

from skllm import MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier
from skllm.datasets import get_multilabel_classification_dataset

X, _ = get_multilabel_classification_dataset()
candidate_labels = [
    "Quality",
    "Price",
    "Delivery",
    "Service",
    "Product Variety",
    "Customer Support",
    "Packaging",
    "User Experience",
    "Return Policy",
    "Product Information",
]
clf = MultiLabelZeroShotGPTClassifier(max_labels=3)
clf.fit(None, [candidate_labels])
labels = clf.predict(X)

Few-Shot Text Classification

With FewShotGPTClassifier it is possible to perform a few-shot classification, which means that the training samples will be added to prompt and passed to the model.

from skllm import FewShotGPTClassifier
from skllm.datasets import get_classification_dataset

X, y = get_classification_dataset()

clf = FewShotGPTClassifier(openai_model="gpt-3.5-turbo")
clf.fit(X, y)
labels = clf.predict(X)

While the api remains the same as for the zero shot classifier, there are a few things to take into account:

• the "training" requires some labelled training data;
• the training set should be small enough to fit into a single prompt (we recommend up to 10 samples per label);
• because of the significantly larger prompt, the inference takes longer and consumes higher amount of tokens.

Note: as the model is not being re-trained, but uses the training data during inference, one could say that this is still a (different) zero-shot approach.

Text Vectorization

As an alternative to using GPT as a classifier, it can be used solely for data preprocessing. GPTVectorizer allows to embed a chunk of text of arbitrary length to a fixed-dimensional vector, that can be used with virtually any classification or regression model.

Example 1: Embedding the text

from skllm.preprocessing import GPTVectorizer

model = GPTVectorizer()
vectors = model.fit_transform(X)

Example 2: Combining the Vectorizer with the XGBoost Classifier in a Sklearn Pipeline

from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder
from xgboost import XGBClassifier

le = LabelEncoder()
y_train_encoded = le.fit_transform(y_train)
y_test_encoded = le.transform(y_test)

steps = [("GPT", GPTVectorizer()), ("Clf", XGBClassifier())]
clf = Pipeline(steps)
clf.fit(X_train, y_train_encoded)
yh = clf.predict(X_test)

Text Summarization

GPT excels at performing summarization tasks. Therefore, we provide GPTSummarizer that can be used both as stand-alone estimator, or as a preprocessor (in this case we can make an analogy with a dimensionality reduction preprocessor).

Example:

from skllm.preprocessing import GPTSummarizer
from skllm.datasets import get_summarization_dataset

X = get_summarization_dataset()
s = GPTSummarizer(openai_model="gpt-3.5-turbo", max_words=15)
summaries = s.fit_transform(X)

Please be aware that the max_words hyperparameter sets a soft limit, which is not strictly enforced outside of the prompt. Therefore, in some cases, the actual number of words might be slightly higher.

Text Translation

GPT models have demonstrated their effectiveness in translation tasks by generating accurate translations across various languages. Thus, we added GPTTranslator that allows translating an arbitraty text into a language of interest.

Example:

from skllm.preprocessing import GPTTranslator
from skllm.datasets import get_translation_dataset

X = get_translation_dataset()
t = GPTTranslator(openai_model="gpt-3.5-turbo", output_language="English")
translated_text = t.fit_transform(X)

Roadmap 🧭

• Zero-Shot Classification with OpenAI GPT 3/4
  • Multiclass classification
  • Multi-label classification
• Few-Shot classifier
  • Multiclass classification
  • Multi-label classification
• GPT Vectorizer
• ChatGPT models
• InstructGPT models
• InstructGPT Fine-tuning (optional)
• Open source models

The order of the elements in the roadmap is arbitrary and does not reflect the planned order of implementation.