Chat models currently implement support for:
- images in OpenAI Chat Completions format
- other multimodal types (e.g., PDF and audio) in a cross-provider
[standard
format](https://python.langchain.com/docs/how_to/multimodal_inputs/)
Here we update core to extend support to PDF and audio input in Chat
Completions format. **If an OAI-format PDF or audio content block is
passed into any chat model, it will be transformed to the LangChain
standard format**. We assume that any chat model supporting OAI-format
PDF or audio has implemented support for the standard format.
We are implementing a token-counting callback handler in
`langchain-core` that is intended to work with all chat models
supporting usage metadata. The callback will aggregate usage metadata by
model. This requires responses to include the model name in its
metadata.
To support this, if a model `returns_usage_metadata`, we check that it
includes a string model name in its `response_metadata` in the
`"model_name"` key.
More context: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/30487
- Test if models support forcing tool calls via `tool_choice`. If they
do, they should support
- `"any"` to specify any tool
- the tool name as a string to force calling a particular tool
- Add `tool_choice` to signature of `BaseChatModel.bind_tools` in core
- Deprecate `tool_choice_value` in standard tests in favor of a boolean
`has_tool_choice`
Will follow up with PRs in external repos (tested in AWS and Google
already).
- Support thinking blocks in core's `convert_to_openai_messages` (pass
through instead of error)
- Ignore thinking blocks in ChatOpenAI (instead of error)
- Support Anthropic-style image blocks in ChatOpenAI
---
Standard integration tests include a `supports_anthropic_inputs`
property which is currently enabled only for tests on `ChatAnthropic`.
This test enforces compatibility with message histories of the form:
```
- system message
- human message
- AI message with tool calls specified only through `tool_use` content blocks
- human message containing `tool_result` and an additional `text` block
```
It additionally checks support for Anthropic-style image inputs if
`supports_image_inputs` is enabled.
Here we change this test, such that if you enable
`supports_anthropic_inputs`:
- You support AI messages with text and `tool_use` content blocks
- You support Anthropic-style image inputs (if `supports_image_inputs`
is enabled)
- You support thinking content blocks.
That is, we add a test case for thinking content blocks, but we also
remove the requirement of handling tool results within HumanMessages
(motivated by existing agent abstractions, which should all return
ToolMessage). We move that requirement to a ChatAnthropic-specific test.
Motivation: dedicated structured output features are becoming more
common, such that integrations can support structured output without
supporting tool calling.
Here we make two changes:
1. Update the `has_structured_output` method to default to True if a
model supports tool calling (in addition to defaulting to True if
`with_structured_output` is overridden).
2. Update structured output tests to engage if `has_structured_output`
is True.
## Goal
Solve the following problems with `langchain-openai`:
- Structured output with `o1` [breaks out of the
box](https://langchain.slack.com/archives/C050X0VTN56/p1735232400232099).
- `with_structured_output` by default does not use OpenAI’s [structured
output
feature](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs).
- We override API defaults for temperature and other parameters.
## Breaking changes:
- Default method for structured output is changing to OpenAI’s dedicated
[structured output
feature](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs).
For schemas specified via TypedDict or JSON schema, strict schema
validation is disabled by default but can be enabled by specifying
`strict=True`.
- To recover previous default, pass `method="function_calling"` into
`with_structured_output`.
- Models that don’t support `method="json_schema"` (e.g., `gpt-4` and
`gpt-3.5-turbo`, currently the default model for ChatOpenAI) will raise
an error unless `method` is explicitly specified.
- To recover previous default, pass `method="function_calling"` into
`with_structured_output`.
- Schemas specified via Pydantic `BaseModel` that have fields with
non-null defaults or metadata (like min/max constraints) will raise an
error.
- To recover previous default, pass `method="function_calling"` into
`with_structured_output`.
- `strict` now defaults to False for `method="json_schema"` when schemas
are specified via TypedDict or JSON schema.
- To recover previous behavior, use `with_structured_output(schema,
strict=True)`
- Schemas specified via Pydantic V1 will raise a warning (and use
`method="function_calling"`) unless `method` is explicitly specified.
- To remove the warning, pass `method="function_calling"` into
`with_structured_output`.
- Streaming with default structured output method / Pydantic schema no
longer generates intermediate streamed chunks.
- To recover previous behavior, pass `method="function_calling"` into
`with_structured_output`.
- We no longer override default temperature (was 0.7 in LangChain, now
will follow OpenAI, currently 1.0).
- To recover previous behavior, initialize `ChatOpenAI` or
`AzureChatOpenAI` with `temperature=0.7`.
- Note: conceptually there is a difference between forcing a tool call
and forcing a response format. Tool calls may have more concise
arguments vs. generating content adhering to a schema. Prompts may need
to be adjusted to recover desired behavior.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacob Lee <jacoblee93@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Bagatur <baskaryan@gmail.com>
Populate API reference for test class properties and test methods for
chat models.
Also:
- Make `standard_chat_model_params` private.
- `pytest.skip` some tests that were previously passed if features are
not supported.
We have a test
[test_structured_few_shot_examples](ad4333ca03/libs/standard-tests/langchain_tests/integration_tests/chat_models.py (L546))
in standard integration tests that implements a version of tool-calling
few shot examples that works with ~all tested providers. The formulation
supported by ~all providers is: `human message, tool call, tool message,
AI reponse`.
Here we update
`langchain_core.utils.function_calling.tool_example_to_messages` to
support this formulation.
The `tool_example_to_messages` util is undocumented outside of our API
reference. IMO, if we are testing that this function works across all
providers, it can be helpful to feature it in our guides. The structured
few-shot examples we document at the moment require users to implement
this function and can be simplified.
