Method Summarize

Namespace

LMKit.TextGeneration

Assembly

LM-Kit.NET.dll

Summarize(string, CancellationToken)

Generates a summary from the provided content synchronously.

public Summarizer.SummarizerResult Summarize(string content, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)

Parameters

content string

The input text to be summarized.

cancellationToken CancellationToken

An optional cancellation token for asynchronous operations.

Returns

Summarizer.SummarizerResult

An instance of Summarizer.SummarizerResult containing the title and/or content summary.

Examples

// Summarizing user input from the console.
var model = LM.LoadFromModelID("gemma3:4b");
var summarizer = new LMKit.TextGeneration.Summarizer(model)
{
    GenerateTitle = true,
    GenerateContent = true
};

Console.WriteLine("Please enter text to summarize:");
string userInput = Console.ReadLine();

var summaryResult = summarizer.Summarize(userInput);
Console.WriteLine("Title: " + summaryResult.Title);
Console.WriteLine("Summary: " + summaryResult.Content);

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Thrown if the provided content is null or empty.

Exception

Passes through any exceptions that occur during summarization.

Summarize(Attachment, CancellationToken)

Generates a summary from an image provided as an Attachment synchronously.

public Summarizer.SummarizerResult Summarize(Attachment content, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)

Parameters

content Attachment

The image attachment to be summarized.

cancellationToken CancellationToken

An optional cancellation token for asynchronous operations.

Returns

Summarizer.SummarizerResult

An instance of Summarizer.SummarizerResult containing the generated title and/or summary content derived from the image.

Examples

// Synchronously summarize an image.
var model = LM.LoadFromModelID("gemma3:4b");
var summarizer = new LMKit.TextGeneration.Summarizer(model);
var imageAttachment = new Attachment("path/to/image.jpg");
var summaryResult = summarizer.Summarize(imageAttachment);
Console.WriteLine("Image Summary: " + summaryResult.Content);

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Thrown if the provided image attachment is null.

InvalidModelException

Thrown when the underlying language model does not support vision input, which is required for analyzing image attachments.

Summarize(ImageBuffer, CancellationToken)

Synchronously generates a summary from the specified image.

public Summarizer.SummarizerResult Summarize(ImageBuffer content, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)

Parameters

content ImageBuffer

The ImageBuffer representing the image to summarize; cannot be null.

cancellationToken CancellationToken

A CancellationToken used to cancel the operation.

Returns

Summarizer.SummarizerResult

A Summarizer.SummarizerResult containing the generated title and/or summary derived from the image.

Examples

var model = LM.LoadFromModelID("gemma3:4b");
var summarizer = new LMKit.TextGeneration.Summarizer(model);
var buffer = ImageBuffer.LoadAsRGB("path/to/image.jpg");
SummarizerResult result = summarizer.Summarize(buffer);
Console.WriteLine("Summary: " + result.Content);

Exceptions

ArgumentException

Thrown if content is null.

InvalidModelException

Thrown if the underlying model does not support vision input.