Eino: CallOption capabilities and specification

CallOption: A channel for directly passing data to a specific set of nodes (Component, Implementation, Node) when invoking Graph compilation products.

  • Difference from Node Config: Node Config is an instance-level configuration, meaning the values in Config are set from instance creation to instance destruction and do not need to change once determined.
  • CallOption: This is request-level configuration, where values differ for each request. It is more like node parameters, but these parameters are directly passed from the Graph entrance rather than from upstream nodes.
  • Example: Passing a Temperature configuration to a ChatModel node; passing a custom option to a Lambda node.

Component CallOption Form

Component CallOption configuration has two levels:

  • CallOption configuration uniformly defined by the abstract (Abstract/Interface) of the component [Component Abstract CallOption]
  • CallOption configuration defined by the implementation (Type/Implementation) of the component for that specific type [Component Implementation CallOption]

Taking the ChatModel component as an example, the form of CallOption is introduced

Directory of Model Abstract and Implementation

// Location of the abstract in the code
eino/components/model
├── interface.go
├── option.go // CallOption parameter at the component abstract level

// Location of the abstract implementation in the code
eino-ext/components/model
├── claude
│   ├── option.go // CallOption parameter for one implementation of the component
│   └── chatmodel.go
├── ollama
│   ├── call_option.go // CallOption parameter for one implementation of the component
│   ├── chatmodel.go

Model Abstraction

As mentioned above, when defining the CallOption for a component, it is necessary to distinguish between the [Component Abstract CallOption] and the [Component Implementation CallOption] scenarios. Whether to provide the [Component Implementation CallOption] is determined by the Component Abstraction.

The CallOption extension capabilities provided by the Component Abstraction are as follows (taking Model as an example, other components are similar):

package model

type ChatModel interface {
    Generate(ctx context.Context, input []*schema.Message, opts ...Option) (*schema.Message, error)
    Stream(ctx context.Context, input []*schema.Message, opts ...Option) (
       *schema.StreamReader[*schema.Message], error)

    // BindTools bind tools to the model.
    // BindTools before requesting ChatModel generally.
    // notice the non-atomic problem of BindTools and Generate.
    BindTools(tools []*schema.ToolInfo) error
}

// This structure is the unified definition of [Component Abstract CallOption]. The component implementation can extract information from [Component Abstract CallOption] according to its own needs.
// Options is the common options for the model.
type Options struct {
    // Temperature is the temperature for the model, which controls the randomness of the model.
    Temperature *float32
    // MaxTokens is the max number of tokens, if reached the max tokens, the model will stop generating, and mostly return a finish reason of "length".
    MaxTokens *int
    // Model is the model name.
    Model *string
    // TopP is the top p for the model, which controls the diversity of the model.
    TopP *float32
    // Stop is the stop words for the model, which controls the stopping condition of the model.
    Stop []string
}

// Option is the call option for the ChatModel component.
type Option struct {
    // This field serves the apply method for [Component Abstract CallOption], such as WithTemperature
    // If the component abstraction does not want to provide the [Component Abstract CallOption], this field can be omitted, along with the GetCommonOptions() method.
    apply func(opts *Options)

    // This field serves the apply method for [Component Implementation CallOption], and it is assumed the apply method is: func(*T)
    // If the component abstraction does not want to provide [Component Implementation CallOption], this field can be omitted along with the GetImplSpecificOptions() method.
    implSpecificOptFn any
}

// WithTemperature is the option to set the temperature for the model.
func WithTemperature(temperature float32) Option {
    return Option{
       apply: func(opts *Options) {
          opts.Temperature = &temperature
       },
    }
}

// WithMaxTokens is the option to set the max tokens for the model.
func WithMaxTokens(maxTokens int) Option {
    return Option{
       apply: func(opts *Options) {
          opts.MaxTokens = &maxTokens
       },
    }
}

// WithModel is the option to set the model name.
func WithModel(name string) Option {
    return Option{
       apply: func(opts *Options) {
          opts.Model = &name
       },
    }
}

// WithTopP is the option to set the top p for the model.
func WithTopP(topP float32) Option {
    return Option{
       apply: func(opts *Options) {
          opts.TopP = &topP
       },
    }
}

// WithStop is the option to set the stop words for the model.
func WithStop(stop []string) Option {
    return Option{
       apply: func(opts *Options) {
          opts.Stop = stop
       },
    }
}

// GetCommonOptions extract model Options from Option list, optionally providing a base Options with default values.
func GetCommonOptions(base *Options, opts ...Option) *Options {
    if base == nil {
       base = &Options{}
    }

    for i := range opts {
       opt := opts[i]
       if opt.apply != nil {
          opt.apply(base)
       }
    }

    return base
}

// Component implementers can use this method to encapsulate their own Option functions: func WithXXX(xxx string) Option{}
func WrapImplSpecificOptFn[T any](optFn func(*T)) Option {
    return Option{
       implSpecificOptFn: optFn,
    }
}

// GetImplSpecificOptions provides tool authors the ability to extract their own custom options from the unified Option type.
// T: the type of the impl specific options struct.
// This function should be used within the tool implementation's InvokableRun or StreamableRun functions.
// It is recommended to provide a base T as the first argument, within which the tool author can provide default values for the impl specific options.
func GetImplSpecificOptions[T any](base *T, opts ...Option) *T {
    if base == nil {
       base = new(T)
    }

    for i := range opts {
       opt := opts[i]
       if opt.implSpecificOptFn != nil {
          optFn, ok := opt.implSpecificOptFn.(func(*T))
          if ok {
             optFn(base)
          }
       }
    }

    return base
}

Claude Implementation

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino-ext/blob/main/components/model/claude/option.go

package claude

import (
    "github.com/cloudwego/eino/components/model"
)

type options struct {
    TopK *int32
}

func WithTopK(k int32) model.Option {
    return model.WrapImplSpecificOptFn(func(o *options) {
       o.TopK = &k
    })
}

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino-ext/blob/main/components/model/claude/claude.go

func (c *claude) genMessageNewParams(input []*schema.Message, opts ...model.Option) (anthropic.MessageNewParams, error) {
    if len(input) == 0 {
       return anthropic.MessageNewParams{}, fmt.Errorf("input is empty")
    }

    commonOptions := model.GetCommonOptions(&model.Options{
       Model:       &c.model,
       Temperature: c.temperature,
       MaxTokens:   &c.maxTokens,
       TopP:        c.topP,
       Stop:        c.stopSequences,
    }, opts...)
    claudeOptions := model.GetImplSpecificOptions(&options{TopK: c.topK}, opts...)
    
    // omit mulple lines...
    return nil, nil 
}

CallOption in Composition

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino/blob/main/compose/runnable.go

Graph compilation result is Runnable

type Runnable[I, O any] interface {
    Invoke(ctx context.Context, input I, opts ...Option) (output O, err error)
    Stream(ctx context.Context, input I, opts ...Option) (output *schema.StreamReader[O], err error)
    Collect(ctx context.Context, input *schema.StreamReader[I], opts ...Option) (output O, err error)
    Transform(ctx context.Context, input *schema.StreamReader[I], opts ...Option) (output *schema.StreamReader[O], err error)
}

Each method of Runnable accepts a list of compose.Option.

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino/blob/main/compose/graph_call_options.go

Including overall configuration for graph run, configuration of various components, and specific Lambda configurations, etc.

// Option is a functional option type for calling a graph.
type Option struct {
    options []any
    handler []callbacks.Handler

    paths []*NodePath

    maxRunSteps int
}

// DesignateNode set the key of the node which will the option be applied to.
// notice: only effective at the top graph.
// e.g.
//
//  embeddingOption := compose.WithEmbeddingOption(embedding.WithModel("text-embedding-3-small"))
//  runnable.Invoke(ctx, "input", embeddingOption.DesignateNode("my_embedding_node"))
func (o Option) DesignateNode(key ...string) Option {
    nKeys := make([]*NodePath, len(key))
    for i, k := range key {
       nKeys[i] = NewNodePath(k)
    }
    return o.DesignateNodeWithPath(nKeys...)
}

// DesignateNodeWithPath sets the path of the node(s) to which the option will be applied to.
// You can make the option take effect in the subgraph by specifying the key of the subgraph.
// e.g.
// DesignateNodeWithPath({"sub graph node key", "node key within sub graph"})
func (o Option) DesignateNodeWithPath(path ...*NodePath) Option {
    o.paths = append(o.paths, path...)
    return o
}

// WithEmbeddingOption is a functional option type for embedding component.
// e.g.
//
//  embeddingOption := compose.WithEmbeddingOption(embedding.WithModel("text-embedding-3-small"))
//  runnable.Invoke(ctx, "input", embeddingOption)
func WithEmbeddingOption(opts ...embedding.Option) Option {
    return withComponentOption(opts...)
}

compose.Option can be assigned to different nodes in the Graph as needed.

// Call option effective for all nodes
compiledGraph.Invoke(ctx, input, WithCallbacks(handler))

// Call option effective for specific types of nodes
compiledGraph.Invoke(ctx, input, WithChatModelOption(WithTemperature(0.5))

// Call option effective only for specific nodes
compiledGraph.Invoke(ctx, input, WithCallbacks(handler).DesignateNode("node_1"))

// Call option effective only for specific nested graphs or nodes within them
compiledGraph.Invoke(ctx, input, WithCallbacks(handler).DesignateNodeWithPath(NewNodePath("1", "2"))

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