Classify

This endpoint classifies text into one of several classes. It uses a few examples to create a classifier from a generative model. In the background, it constructs a few-shot classification prompt and uses it classify the input texts you pass to it.

Usage

Sample Response

{
    "results": [
        {
            "text": "this movie was great",
            "prediction": "positive review",
            "confidences": [
                {
                    "option": "positive review",
                    "confidence": 0.45
                },
                {
                    "option": "negative review",
                    "confidence": 0.33
                },
                {
                    "option": "neutral review",
                    "confidence": 0.22
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "text": "this movie was bad",
            "prediction": "negative review",
            "confidences": [
                {
                    "option": "positive review",
                    "confidence": 0.13
                },
                {
                    "option": "negative review",
                    "confidence": 0.57
                },
                {
                    "option": "neutral review",
                    "confidence": 0.30
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Request:

taskDescription (optional)

string

A brief description providing context on the type classification the model should preform (i.e. Classify these movie reviews as positive reviews or negative reviews)

inputs

array of strings

Represents a list of queries to be classified

examples

object

An array of examples to provide context to the model. Each example is a text string and its label/class. Each unique label/class requires at least 5 examples associated with it. The values should be structured as [label:{},text:{}]

outputIndicator (optional)

string

The output indicator part of the prompt. This is string to be appended at the end of every example and text. See Prompt Engineering for more details.

Response:

text

string

The input text that was classified

prediction

string

The predicted class for the associated query

confidences

list of objects

An array containing each class and its confidence score according to the classifier. The score is computed as follows:

1. Obtain the likelihood from the back of every generate prompt until the label is formed
2. Then averaged over the number of tokens in the label
3. All scores are then normalized via a softmax.