How to call tools in parallel

In the Chains with multiple tools guide we saw how to build function-calling chains that select between multiple tools. Some models, like the OpenAI models released in Fall 2023, also support parallel function calling, which allows you to invoke multiple functions (or the same function multiple times) in a single model call. Our previous chain from the multiple tools guides actually already supports this.

Setup

We'll need to install the following packages for this guide:

%pip install --upgrade --quiet langchain-core

If you'd like to trace your runs in LangSmith uncomment and set the following environment variables:

import getpass
import os

# os.environ["LANGCHAIN_TRACING_V2"] = "true"
# os.environ["LANGCHAIN_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

Tools

from langchain_core.tools import tool


@tool
def multiply(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int:
    """Multiply two integers together."""
    return first_int * second_int


@tool
def add(first_int: int, second_int: int) -> int:
    "Add two integers."
    return first_int + second_int


@tool
def exponentiate(base: int, exponent: int) -> int:
    "Exponentiate the base to the exponent power."
    return base**exponent

API Reference:

• tool

Chain

OpenAI

pip install -qU langchain-openai

import getpass
import os

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-3.5-turbo-0125")

Anthropic

pip install -qU langchain-anthropic

import getpass
import os

os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic

llm = ChatAnthropic(model="claude-3-sonnet-20240229")

Cohere

pip install -qU langchain-cohere

import getpass
import os

os.environ["COHERE_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_cohere import ChatCohere

llm = ChatCohere(model="command-r")

FireworksAI

pip install -qU langchain-fireworks

import getpass
import os

os.environ["FIREWORKS_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_fireworks import ChatFireworks

llm = ChatFireworks(model="accounts/fireworks/models/mixtral-8x7b-instruct")

MistralAI

pip install -qU langchain-mistralai

import getpass
import os

os.environ["MISTRAL_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_mistralai import ChatMistralAI

llm = ChatMistralAI(model="mistral-large-latest")

TogetherAI

pip install -qU langchain-openai

import getpass
import os

os.environ["TOGETHER_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()

from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

llm = ChatOpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.together.xyz/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["TOGETHER_API_KEY"],
    model="mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1",)

from operator import itemgetter
from typing import Dict, List, Union

from langchain_core.messages import AIMessage
from langchain_core.runnables import (
    Runnable,
    RunnableLambda,
    RunnableMap,
    RunnablePassthrough,
)

tools = [multiply, exponentiate, add]
llm_with_tools = llm.bind_tools(tools)
tool_map = {tool.name: tool for tool in tools}


def call_tools(msg: AIMessage) -> Runnable:
    """Simple sequential tool calling helper."""
    tool_map = {tool.name: tool for tool in tools}
    tool_calls = msg.tool_calls.copy()
    for tool_call in tool_calls:
        tool_call["output"] = tool_map[tool_call["name"]].invoke(tool_call["args"])
    return tool_calls


chain = llm_with_tools | call_tools

API Reference:

• AIMessage
• Runnable
• RunnableLambda
• RunnableMap
• RunnablePassthrough

chain.invoke(
    "What's 23 times 7, and what's five times 18 and add a million plus a billion and cube thirty-seven"
)

[{'name': 'multiply',
  'args': {'first_int': 23, 'second_int': 7},
  'id': 'call_22tgOrsVLyLMsl2RLbUhtycw',
  'output': 161},
 {'name': 'multiply',
  'args': {'first_int': 5, 'second_int': 18},
  'id': 'call_EbKHEG3TjqBhEwb7aoxUtgzf',
  'output': 90},
 {'name': 'add',
  'args': {'first_int': 1000000, 'second_int': 1000000000},
  'id': 'call_LUhu2IT3vINxlTc5fCVY6Nhi',
  'output': 1001000000},
 {'name': 'exponentiate',
  'args': {'base': 37, 'exponent': 3},
  'id': 'call_bnCZIXelOKkmcyd4uGXId9Ct',
  'output': 50653}]