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Building Natural Language and LLM Pipelines
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This chapter marked a critical transition from being a user of the Haystack framework to becoming an architect capable of extending it. We moved beyond assembling predefined components to building our own, mastering the core principles of custom component development. You learned the essential building blocks: the @component decorator to register a class, the __init__ method for lightweight configuration, and the run() method to house the component’s core logic. We also introduced the crucial warm_up() life cycle method, the standard for efficiently managing heavy resources such as models, which separates one-time initialization from repeated execution.
We then applied these principles to build a sophisticated, multi-stage pipeline for a practical, advanced use case: generating a high-quality evaluation dataset for RAG systems. You learned how to create a KnowledgeGraphGenerator component to extract structured entities and relationships from raw documents. Using...