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Conversation Completeness

The conversation completeness metric is a conversational metric that determines whether your LLM is able to complete an end-to-end conversation by satisfying user needs throughout a conversation.

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The ConversationCompletenessMetric can be used as a proxy to measure user satisfaction throughout a conversation. Conversational metrics are particular useful for an LLM chatbot use case.

Required Arguments​

To use the ConversationCompletenessMetric, you'll have to provide the following arguments when creating an LLMTestCases for each Message in a ConversationalTestCase:

  • input
  • actual_output

Example​

Let's take this conversation as an example:

from deepeval.test_case import LLMTestCase, ConversationalTestCase, Message
from deepeval.metrics import ConversationCompletenessMetric

convo_test_case = ConversationalTestCase(
    messages=[Message(llm_test_case=LLMTestCase(input="...", actual_output="..."))]
)
metric = ConversationCompletenessMetric(threshold=0.5)

metric.measure(convo_test_case)
print(metric.score)
print(metric.reason)

There are six optional parameters when creating a ConversationCompletenessMetric:

  • [Optional] threshold: a float representing the minimum passing threshold, defaulted to 0.5.
  • [Optional] model: a string specifying which of OpenAI's GPT models to use, OR any custom LLM model of type DeepEvalBaseLLM. Defaulted to 'gpt-4o'.
  • [Optional] include_reason: a boolean which when set to True, will include a reason for its evaluation score. Defaulted to True.
  • [Optional] strict_mode: a boolean which when set to True, enforces a binary metric score: 1 for perfection, 0 otherwise. It also overrides the current threshold and sets it to 1. Defaulted to False.
  • [Optional] async_mode: a boolean which when set to True, enables concurrent execution within the measure() method. Defaulted to True.
  • [Optional] verbose_mode: a boolean which when set to True, prints the intermediate steps used to calculate said metric to the console, as outlined in the How Is It Calculated section. Defaulted to False.

How Is It Calculated?​

The ConversationCompletenessMetric score is calculated according to the following equation:

Conversation Completeness=Number of Satisfied User Intentions in ConversationTotal Number of User Intentions in Conversation\text{Conversation Completeness} = \frac{\text{Number of Satisfied User Intentions in Conversation}}{\text{Total Number of User Intentions in Conversation}}

The ConversationCompletenessMetric assumes that a conversion is only complete if user intentions, such as asking for help to an LLM chatbot, are met by the LLM chatbot. Hence, the ConversationCompletenessMetric first uses an LLM to extract a list of high level user intentions found in the list of Messages, before using the same LLM to determine whether each intention was met and/or satisfied throughout the conversation.