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TitleExtractor #

Bases: BaseExtractor

Title extractor. Useful for long documents. Extracts document_title metadata field.

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
llm Optional[LLM]

LLM

None
nodes int

number of nodes from front to use for title extraction

5
node_template str

template for node-level title clues extraction

DEFAULT_TITLE_NODE_TEMPLATE
combine_template str

template for combining node-level clues into a document-level title

DEFAULT_TITLE_COMBINE_TEMPLATE
Source code in llama-index-core/llama_index/core/extractors/metadata_extractors.py
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class TitleExtractor(BaseExtractor):
    """Title extractor. Useful for long documents. Extracts `document_title`
    metadata field.

    Args:
        llm (Optional[LLM]): LLM
        nodes (int): number of nodes from front to use for title extraction
        node_template (str): template for node-level title clues extraction
        combine_template (str): template for combining node-level clues into
            a document-level title
    """

    is_text_node_only: bool = False  # can work for mixture of text and non-text nodes
    llm: SerializeAsAny[LLM] = Field(description="The LLM to use for generation.")
    nodes: int = Field(
        default=5,
        description="The number of nodes to extract titles from.",
        gt=0,
    )
    node_template: str = Field(
        default=DEFAULT_TITLE_NODE_TEMPLATE,
        description="The prompt template to extract titles with.",
    )
    combine_template: str = Field(
        default=DEFAULT_TITLE_COMBINE_TEMPLATE,
        description="The prompt template to merge titles with.",
    )

    def __init__(
        self,
        llm: Optional[LLM] = None,
        # TODO: llm_predictor arg is deprecated
        llm_predictor: Optional[LLM] = None,
        nodes: int = 5,
        node_template: str = DEFAULT_TITLE_NODE_TEMPLATE,
        combine_template: str = DEFAULT_TITLE_COMBINE_TEMPLATE,
        num_workers: int = DEFAULT_NUM_WORKERS,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> None:
        """Init params."""
        if nodes < 1:
            raise ValueError("num_nodes must be >= 1")

        super().__init__(
            llm=llm or llm_predictor or Settings.llm,
            nodes=nodes,
            node_template=node_template,
            combine_template=combine_template,
            num_workers=num_workers,
            **kwargs,
        )

    @classmethod
    def class_name(cls) -> str:
        return "TitleExtractor"

    async def aextract(self, nodes: Sequence[BaseNode]) -> List[Dict]:
        nodes_by_doc_id = self.separate_nodes_by_ref_id(nodes)
        titles_by_doc_id = await self.extract_titles(nodes_by_doc_id)
        return [{"document_title": titles_by_doc_id[node.ref_doc_id]} for node in nodes]

    def filter_nodes(self, nodes: Sequence[BaseNode]) -> List[BaseNode]:
        filtered_nodes: List[BaseNode] = []
        for node in nodes:
            if self.is_text_node_only and not isinstance(node, TextNode):
                continue
            filtered_nodes.append(node)
        return filtered_nodes

    def separate_nodes_by_ref_id(self, nodes: Sequence[BaseNode]) -> Dict:
        separated_items: Dict[Optional[str], List[BaseNode]] = {}

        for node in nodes:
            key = node.ref_doc_id
            if key not in separated_items:
                separated_items[key] = []

            if len(separated_items[key]) < self.nodes:
                separated_items[key].append(node)

        return separated_items

    async def extract_titles(self, nodes_by_doc_id: Dict) -> Dict:
        titles_by_doc_id = {}
        for key, nodes in nodes_by_doc_id.items():
            title_candidates = await self.get_title_candidates(nodes)
            combined_titles = ", ".join(title_candidates)
            titles_by_doc_id[key] = await self.llm.apredict(
                PromptTemplate(template=self.combine_template),
                context_str=combined_titles,
            )
        return titles_by_doc_id

    async def get_title_candidates(self, nodes: List[BaseNode]) -> List[str]:
        title_jobs = [
            self.llm.apredict(
                PromptTemplate(template=self.node_template),
                context_str=cast(TextNode, node).text,
            )
            for node in nodes
        ]
        return await run_jobs(
            title_jobs, show_progress=self.show_progress, workers=self.num_workers
        )