LlamaIndex (GPT Index) is a data framework for your LLM application. Building with LlamaIndex typically involves working with LlamaIndex core and a chosen set of integrations (or plugins). There are two ways to start building with LlamaIndex in Python:
Starter:
llama-index. A starter Python package that includes core LlamaIndex as well as a selection of integrations.Customized:
llama-index-core. Install core LlamaIndex and add your chosen LlamaIndex integration packages on LlamaHub that are required for your application. There are over 300 LlamaIndex integration packages that work seamlessly with core, allowing you to build with your preferred LLM, embedding, and vector store providers.
The LlamaIndex Python library is namespaced such that import statements which
include core imply that the core package is being used. In contrast, those
statements without core imply that an integration package is being used.
# typical patternfromllama_index.core.xxximportClassABC# core submodule xxxfromllama_index.xxx.yyyimport (
SubclassABC,
) # integration yyy for submodule xxx# concrete examplefromllama_index.core.llmsimportLLMfromllama_index.llms.openaiimportOpenAILlamaIndex.TS (Typescript/Javascript)
NOTE: This README is not updated as frequently as the documentation. Please check out the documentation above for the latest updates!
- LLMs are a phenomenal piece of technology for knowledge generation and reasoning. They are pre-trained on large amounts of publicly available data.
- How do we best augment LLMs with our own private data?
We need a comprehensive toolkit to help perform this data augmentation for LLMs.
That's where LlamaIndex comes in. LlamaIndex is a "data framework" to help you build LLM apps. It provides the following tools:
- Offers data connectors to ingest your existing data sources and data formats (APIs, PDFs, docs, SQL, etc.).
- Provides ways to structure your data (indices, graphs) so that this data can be easily used with LLMs.
- Provides an advanced retrieval/query interface over your data: Feed in any LLM input prompt, get back retrieved context and knowledge-augmented output.
- Allows easy integrations with your outer application framework (e.g. with LangChain, Flask, Docker, ChatGPT, or anything else).
LlamaIndex provides tools for both beginner users and advanced users. Our high-level API allows beginner users to use LlamaIndex to ingest and query their data in 5 lines of code. Our lower-level APIs allow advanced users to customize and extend any module (data connectors, indices, retrievers, query engines, reranking modules), to fit their needs.
Interested in contributing? Contributions to LlamaIndex core as well as contributing integrations that build on the core are both accepted and highly encouraged! See our Contribution Guide for more details.
New integrations should meaningfully integrate with existing LlamaIndex framework components. At the discretion of LlamaIndex maintainers, some integrations may be declined.
Full documentation can be found here
Please check it out for the most up-to-date tutorials, how-to guides, references, and other resources!
# custom selection of integrations to work with core
pip install llama-index-core
pip install llama-index-llms-openai
pip install llama-index-llms-replicate
pip install llama-index-embeddings-huggingfaceExamples are in the docs/examples folder. Indices are in the indices folder (see list of indices below).
To build a simple vector store index using OpenAI:
importosos.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] ="YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY"fromllama_index.coreimportVectorStoreIndex, SimpleDirectoryReaderdocuments=SimpleDirectoryReader("YOUR_DATA_DIRECTORY").load_data()
index=VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(documents)To build a simple vector store index using non-OpenAI LLMs, e.g. Llama 2 hosted on Replicate, where you can easily create a free trial API token:
importosos.environ["REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"] ="YOUR_REPLICATE_API_TOKEN"fromllama_index.coreimportSettings, VectorStoreIndex, SimpleDirectoryReaderfromllama_index.embeddings.huggingfaceimportHuggingFaceEmbeddingfromllama_index.llms.replicateimportReplicatefromtransformersimportAutoTokenizer# set the LLMllama2_7b_chat="meta/llama-2-7b-chat:8e6975e5ed6174911a6ff3d60540dfd4844201974602551e10e9e87ab143d81e"Settings.llm=Replicate(
model=llama2_7b_chat,
temperature=0.01,
additional_kwargs={"top_p": 1, "max_new_tokens": 300},
)
# set tokenizer to match LLMSettings.tokenizer=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"NousResearch/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf"
)
# set the embed modelSettings.embed_model=HuggingFaceEmbedding(
model_name="BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5"
)
documents=SimpleDirectoryReader("YOUR_DATA_DIRECTORY").load_data()
index=VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(
documents,
)To query:
query_engine=index.as_query_engine()
query_engine.query("YOUR_QUESTION")By default, data is stored in-memory.
To persist to disk (under ./storage):
index.storage_context.persist()To reload from disk:
fromllama_index.coreimportStorageContext, load_index_from_storage# rebuild storage contextstorage_context=StorageContext.from_defaults(persist_dir="./storage")
# load indexindex=load_index_from_storage(storage_context)We use poetry as the package manager for all Python packages. As a result, the
dependencies of each Python package can be found by referencing the pyproject.toml
file in each of the package's folders.
cd<desired-package-folder>
pip install poetry
poetry install --with devBy default, llama-index-core includes a _static folder that contains the nltk and tiktoken cache that is included with the package installation. This ensures that you can easily run llama-index in environments with restrictive disk access permissions at runtime.
To verify that these files are safe and valid, we use the github attest-build-provenance action. This action will verify that the files in the _static folder are the same as the files in the llama-index-core/llama_index/core/_static folder.
To verify this, you can run the following script (pointing to your installed package):
#!/bin/bash
STATIC_DIR="venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/llama_index/core/_static"
REPO="run-llama/llama_index"
find "$STATIC_DIR" -type f |whileread -r file;doecho"Verifying: $file"
gh attestation verify "$file" -R "$REPO"||echo"Failed to verify: $file"doneReference to cite if you use LlamaIndex in a paper:
@software{Liu_LlamaIndex_2022,
author = {Liu, Jerry},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1234},
month = {11},
title = {{LlamaIndex}},
url = {https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index},
year = {2022}
}