Overview

Developed by	GroundedAI
Date of development	October 9, 2024
Validator type	Hallucination
Blog
License	Apache 2
Input/Output	Output

Description

Intended Use

This validator uses a fine-tuned language model to detect hallucinations in AI-generated responses. It evaluates whether a given response is grounded in the provided context or if it contains factually incorrect or nonsensical information.

Requirements

• Dependencies:

  • guardrails-ai>=0.4.0
  • torch
  • transformers
  • peft
  • jinja2

• Foundation model access:

  • Internet connection to download the required models

Installation

$ guardrails hub install hub://guardrails/grounded-ai-hallucination

Usage Examples

Validating string output via Python

In this example, we apply the validator to check if an AI-generated response is a hallucination.

from guardrails.hub import GroundedAIHallucination
from guardrails import Guard

guard = Guard().use(GroundedAIHallucination(quant=True))

guard.validate(json.dumps({
    "query": "What is the capital of France?",
    "response": "The capital of France is London.",
    "reference": "The capital of France is Paris."
})) 

>>> # Validator fails

guard.validate(json.dumps({
    "query": "What is the capital of France?",
    "response": "The capital of France is Paris.",
    "reference": "The capital of France is Paris."
})) 

>>> # Validator passes

API Reference

__init__(self, quant: bool, base_prompt: Optional[str] = HALLUCINATION_EVAL_BASE)

Initializes a new instance of the GroundedAIHallucination class.

Parameters

• quant (bool): Whether to use quantization for the model.
• base_prompt (Optional[str]): The base prompt template for hallucination evaluation. Defaults to HALLUCINATION_EVAL_BASE, but you may customize this to your need.
• on_fail (str, Callable): The policy to enact when a validator fails. If str, must be one of reask, fix, filter, refrain, noop, exception or fix_reask. Otherwise, must be a function that is called when the validator fails.

validate(self, value: str, metadata: Dict = {}) -> ValidationResult

Validates whether the given response is a hallucination based on the provided query and reference.

Parameters

• value (str): A string (dictionary wrapped with json.dumps()) containing the following keys:
  • query (str): The original question or prompt.
  • response (str): The AI-generated response to validate.
  • reference (str): Optional reference information for fact-checking.
• metadata (dict): Additional metadata (not used in this validator).

Returns

• ValidationResult: Indicates whether the validation passed or failed.