From 59521c1c931197b639bf69d60211dabe60babd75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scarlett Attensil <56320324+sattensil@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:58:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Scarlett/add keywords (#288) * Initial changes.md * revise.md * revise.md * revise --- README.md | 29 ++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 60878f7b..e11e7072 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Graphiti Graphiti builds dynamic, temporally aware Knowledge Graphs that represent complex, evolving relationships between entities over time. Graphiti ingests both unstructured and structured data, and the resulting graph may be queried using -a fusion of time, full-text, semantic, and graph algorithm approaches. +a fusion of time, full-text, semantic, and graph algorithm approaches, effectively serving as a powerful memory layer for AI applications.
@@ -40,11 +40,10 @@ while handling changing relationships and maintaining historical context. With Graphiti, you can build LLM applications such as: - Assistants that learn from user interactions, fusing personal knowledge with dynamic data from business systems like - CRMs and billing platforms. -- Agents that autonomously execute complex tasks, reasoning with state changes from multiple dynamic sources. + CRMs and billing platforms through robust conversation history management. +- Agents that autonomously execute complex tasks, reasoning with state changes from multiple dynamic sources through persistent memory. -Graphiti supports a wide range of applications in sales, customer service, health, finance, and more, enabling long-term -recall and state-based reasoning for both assistants and agents. +Graphiti supports a wide range of applications in sales, customer service, health, finance, and more, enabling long-term recall and state-based reasoning for both assistants and agents. ## Graphiti and Zep Memory @@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ the [State of the Art in Agent Memory](https://blog.getzep.com/state-of-the-art- Read our paper: [Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13956). -We're excited to open-source Graphiti, believing its potential reaches far beyond memory applications. +We're excited to open-source Graphiti, believing its potential reaches far beyond AI memory applications.

Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory @@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ We're excited to open-source Graphiti, believing its potential reaches far beyon ## Why Graphiti? -We were intrigued by Microsoft’s GraphRAG, which expanded on RAG text chunking by using a graph to better model a +We were intrigued by Microsoft's GraphRAG, which expanded on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) text chunking by using a graph to better model a document corpus and making this representation available via semantic and graph search techniques. However, GraphRAG did not address our core problem: It's primarily designed for static documents and doesn't inherently handle temporal aspects of data. @@ -72,13 +71,13 @@ Graphiti is designed from the ground up to handle constantly changing informatio scale: - **Temporal Awareness:** Tracks changes in facts and relationships over time, enabling point-in-time queries. Graph - edges include temporal metadata to record relationship lifecycles. + edges include temporal metadata to record relationship lifecycles, creating a comprehensive context window extension. - **Episodic Processing:** Ingests data as discrete episodes, maintaining data provenance and allowing incremental - entity and relationship extraction. + entity and relationship extraction, ideal for chat state management. - **Hybrid Search:** Combines semantic and BM25 full-text search, with the ability to rerank results by distance from a - central node e.g. “Kendra”. + central node e.g. "Kendra". - **Scalable:** Designed for processing large datasets, with parallelization of LLM calls for bulk processing while - preserving the chronology of events. + preserving the chronology of events and enabling efficient knowledge retrieval. - **Supports Varied Sources:** Can ingest both unstructured text and structured JSON data.

@@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ scale: Requirements: - Python 3.10 or higher -- Neo4j 5.26 or higher +- Neo4j 5.26 or higher (serves as the embeddings storage backend) - OpenAI API key (for LLM inference and embedding) Optional: @@ -123,7 +122,7 @@ from graphiti_core import Graphiti from graphiti_core.nodes import EpisodeType from datetime import datetime, timezone -# Initialize Graphiti +# Initialize Graphiti as Your Memory Layer graphiti = Graphiti("bolt://localhost:7687", "neo4j", "password") # Initialize the graph database with Graphiti's indices. This only needs to be done once. @@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ for i, episode in enumerate(episodes): reference_time=datetime.now(timezone.utc) ) -# Search the graph +# Search the graph for semantic memory retrieval # Execute a hybrid search combining semantic similarity and BM25 retrieval # Results are combined and reranked using Reciprocal Rank Fusion results = await graphiti.search('Who was the California Attorney General?') @@ -176,7 +175,7 @@ results = await graphiti.search('Who was the California Attorney General?') # Results are weighted by their proximity, with distant edges receiving lower scores. await graphiti.search('Who was the California Attorney General?', center_node_uuid) -# Close the connection +# Close the connection when chat state management is complete graphiti.close() ```