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Chat with your data - Solution accelerator (Python)

Chat with your data using OpenAI and AI Search with Python.

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Chat with your data - Solution accelerator

Chat with your data - Solution accelerator - Table of Contents

User story

Welcome to the Chat with your data Solution accelerator repository! The Chat with your data Solution accelerator is a powerful tool that combines the capabilities of Azure AI Search and Large Language Models (LLMs) to create a conversational search experience. This solution accelerator uses an Azure OpenAI GPT model and an Azure AI Search index generated from your data, which is integrated into a web application to provide a natural language interface, including speech-to-text functionality, for search queries. Users can drag and drop files, point to storage, and take care of technical setup to transform documents. Everything can be deployed in your own subscription to accelerate your use of this technology.

About this repo

This repository provides an end-to-end solution for users who want to query their data with natural language. It includes a well designed ingestion mechanism for multiple file types, an easy deployment, and a support team for maintenance. The accelerator demonstrates both Push or Pull Ingestion; the choice of orchestration (Semantic Kernel, LangChain, OpenAI Functions or Prompt Flow) and should be the minimum components needed to implement a RAG pattern. It is not intended to be put into Production as-is without experimentation or evaluation of your data. It provides the following features:

Chat with an Azure OpenAI model using your own data
Upload and process your documents
Index public web pages
Easy prompt configuration
Multiple chunking strategies

When should you use this repo?

If you need to customize your scenario beyond what Azure OpenAI on your data offers out-of-the-box, use this repository. By default, this repo comes with one specific set of RAG configurations including but not limited to: chunk size, overlap, retrieval/search type and system prompt. It is important that you evaluate the retrieval/search and the generation of the answers for your data and tune these configurations accordingly before you use this repo in production. For a starting point to understand and perform RAG evaluations, we encourage you to look into the RAG Experiment Accelerator.

The accelerator presented here provides several options, for example:

The ability to ground a model using both data and public web pages
A backend with support for 'custom' and 'On Your Data' conversation flows
Advanced prompt engineering capabilities
An admin site for ingesting/inspecting/configuring your dataset on the fly
Push or Pull model for data ingestion: See integrated vectorization documentation for more details
Running a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution locally

*Have you seen ChatGPT + Enterprise data with Azure OpenAI and AI Search demo? If you would like to experiment: Play with prompts, understanding RAG pattern different implementation approaches, see how different features interact with the RAG pattern and choose the best options for your RAG deployments, take a look at that repo.

Here is a comparison table with a few features offered by Azure, an available GitHub demo sample and this repo, that can provide guidance when you need to decide which one to use:

Name	Feature or Sample?	What is it?	When to use?
"Chat with your data" Solution Accelerator - (This repo)	Azure sample	End-to-end baseline RAG pattern sample that uses Azure AI Search as a retriever.	This sample should be used by Developers when the RAG pattern implementations provided by Azure are not able to satisfy business requirements. This sample provides a means to customize the solution. Developers must add their own code to meet requirements, and adapt with best practices according to individual company policies.
Azure OpenAI on your data	Azure feature	Azure OpenAI Service offers out-of-the-box, end-to-end RAG implementation that uses a REST API or the web-based interface in the Azure AI Studio to create a solution that connects to your data to enable an enhanced chat experience with Azure OpenAI ChatGPT models and Azure AI Search.	This should be the first option considered for developers that need an end-to-end solution for Azure OpenAI Service with an Azure AI Search retriever. Simply select supported data sources, that ChatGPT model in Azure OpenAI Service , and any other Azure resources needed to configure your enterprise application needs.
Azure Machine Learning prompt flow	Azure feature	RAG in Azure Machine Learning is enabled by integration with Azure OpenAI Service for large language models and vectorization. It includes support for Faiss and Azure AI Search as vector stores, as well as support for open-source offerings, tools, and frameworks such as LangChain for data chunking. Azure Machine Learning prompt flow offers the ability to test data generation, automate prompt creation, visualize prompt evaluation metrics, and integrate RAG workflows into MLOps using pipelines.	When Developers need more control over processes involved in the development cycle of LLM-based AI applications, they should use Azure Machine Learning prompt flow to create executable flows and evaluate performance through large-scale testing.
ChatGPT + Enterprise data with Azure OpenAI and AI Search demo	Azure sample	RAG pattern demo that uses Azure AI Search as a retriever.	Developers who would like to use or present an end-to-end demonstration of the RAG pattern should use this sample. This includes the ability to deploy and test different retrieval modes, and prompts to support business use cases.
RAG Experiment Accelerator	Tool	The RAG Experiment Accelerator is a versatile tool that helps you conduct experiments and evaluations using Azure AI Search and RAG pattern.	RAG Experiment Accelerator is to make it easier and faster to run experiments and evaluations of search queries and quality of response from OpenAI. This tool is useful for researchers, data scientists, and developers who want to, Test the performance of different Search and OpenAI related hyperparameters.

Key features

Private LLM access on your data: Get all the benefits of ChatGPT on your private, unstructured data.
Single application access to your full data set: Minimize endpoints required to access internal company knowledgebases. Reuse the same backend with the Microsoft Teams Extension
Natural language interaction with your unstructured data: Use natural language to quickly find the answers you need and ask follow-up queries to get the supplemental details, including Speech-to-text.
Easy access to source documentation when querying: Review referenced documents in the same chat window for additional context.
Data upload: Batch upload documents of various file types
Accessible orchestration: Prompt and document configuration (prompt engineering, document processing, and data retrieval)

Note: The current model allows users to ask questions about unstructured data, such as PDF, text, and docx files. See the supported file types.

Target end users

Company personnel (employees, executives) looking to research against internal unstructured company data would leverage this accelerator using natural language to find what they need quickly.

This accelerator also works across industry and roles and would be suitable for any employee who would like to get quick answers with a ChatGPT experience against their internal unstructured company data.

Tech administrators can use this accelerator to give their colleagues easy access to internal unstructured company data. Admins can customize the system configurator to tailor responses for the intended audience.

Use Case scenarios

Financial Advisor Scenario

The sample data illustrates how this accelerator could be used in the financial services industry (FSI).

In this scenario, a financial advisor is preparing for a meeting with a potential client who has expressed interest in Woodgrove Investments’ Emerging Markets Funds. The advisor prepares for the meeting by refreshing their understanding of the emerging markets fund's overall goals and the associated risks.

Now that the financial advisor is more informed about Woodgrove’s Emerging Markets Funds, they're better equipped to respond to questions about this fund from their client.

Legal Review and Summarization Assistant scenario

Additionally, we have implemented a Legal Review and Summarization Assistant scenario to demonstrate how this accelerator can be utilized in any industry. The Legal Review and Summarization Assistant helps professionals manage and interact with a large collection of documents efficiently. For more details, refer to the Legal Review and Summarization Assistant README.

Note: Some of the sample data included with this accelerator was generated using AI and is for illustrative purposes only.

Deploy

Pre-requisites

Azure subscription - Create one for free with owner access.
Approval to use Azure OpenAI services with your Azure subcription. To apply for approval, see here.
Enable custom Teams apps and turn on custom app uploading (optional: Teams extension only)

Products used

Azure App Service
Azure Application Insights
Azure Bot
Azure OpenAI
Azure Document Intelligence
Azure Function App
Azure Search Service
Azure Storage Account
Azure Speech Service
Teams (optional: Teams extension only)

Required licenses

Microsoft 365 (optional: Teams extension only)

Pricing Considerations

This solution accelerator deploys multiple resources. Evaluate the cost of each component prior to deployment.

The following are links to the pricing details for some of the resources:

Azure OpenAI service pricing. GPT and embedding models are charged separately.
Azure AI Search pricing. AI Search core service and semantic ranker are charged separately.
Azure Blob Storage pricing
Azure Functions pricing
Azure AI Document Intelligence pricing
Azure Web App Pricing

Deploy instructions

There are two choices; the "Deploy to Azure" offers a one click deployment where you don't have to clone the code, alternatively if you would like a developer experience, follow the Local deployment instructions.

The demo, which uses containers pre-built from the main branch is available by clicking this button:

Note: The default configuration deploys an OpenAI Model "gpt-35-turbo" with version 0613. However, not all locations support this version. If you're deploying to a location that doesn't support version 0613, you'll need to switch to a lower version. To find out which versions are supported in different regions, visit the GPT-35 Turbo Model Availability page.

Testing the deployment

Navigate to the admin site, where you can upload documents. It will be located at:

https://web-{RESOURCE_TOKEN}-admin.azurewebsites.net/

Where {RESOURCE_TOKEN} is uniquely generated during deployment. This is a combination of your subscription and the name of the resource group. Then select Ingest Data and add your data. You can find sample data in the /data directory.
Navigate to the web app to start chatting on top of your data. The web app can be found at:

https://web-{RESOURCE_TOKEN}.azurewebsites.net/

Supporting documentation

Resource links

This solution accelerator deploys the following resources. It's critical to comprehend the functionality of each. Below are the links to their respective documentation:

Licensing

This repository is licensed under the MIT License.

The data set under the /data folder is licensed under the CDLA-Permissive-2 License.

Disclaimers

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