basaran VS simpleAI

What are the current best "no reinventing the wheel" approaches to have Langchain use an LLM through a locally hosted REST API, the likes of Oobabooga or hyperonym/basaran with streaming support for 4-bit GPTQ?

Disclaimer: I am curating LLM-tools on github [1]

A few thoughts:

* allow for custom endpoint URLs, this way people can use open source LLMs with a fake openAI API backend like basaran[2] or llama-api-server[3]

* look into better embedding methods for info-retrieval like InstructorEmbeddings or Document Summary Index

* Don't use a single embedding per content item, use multiple to increase retrieval quality

1 https://github.com/underlines/awesome-marketing-datascience/...

2 https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran

3 https://github.com/iaalm/llama-api-server

open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API (https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran)

Guanaco-65B[0] using Basaran[1] for your OpenAI compatible API. You can use any ChatGPT front-end which lets you change the OpenAI endpoint URL.

[0] An fp4 finetune of LLaMA-30B by Tim Dettmers

[1] https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran

For lm-eval, I think you'd either need to take GPTQ's inference script and shim it into a model: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/master/lm_eval/models or you might be able to use a project like https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran and then you could use the gpt3 model...

There are also: - Basaran repo: "Basaran is an open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API. It provides a compatible streaming API for your Hugging Face Transformers-based text generation models". "...Compatibility with OpenAI API and client libraries..."; - llama-cpp-python repo: "Simple Python bindings for @ggerganov's llama.cpp library...". "...OpenAI-like API...".

I want to start with a totally freely available model, so again, that excludes things like LLaMA where the weights are only available through a wait list. The two models that most get my attention and (I think, and hope) fit my criteria of open availability are Cerebras-GPT (13b) and Bloomz (7b). The tools to process and fine-tune that seem most feasible to me, from my limit knowledge, are xturing and basaran.

Not related to my own project SimpleAI despite the name, but looks like we can easily make the two work together, to keep it « simple ». Nice work!

Using this as an opportunity to mention my own related project, perhaps it can end up on your nice list one day. :)

https://github.com/lhenault/SimpleAI

You could have a look at a project I’ve been working on, SimpleAI, doing exactly this by replicating the OpenAI endpoints (you can then use their JS client for integration). Adding StableLM should be straightforward, I plan to add it to the examples in the upcoming days once I have a bit of time.

I’ve built SimpleAI with exactly these kinds of use cases in mind. That should allow supporting any model with minimal / no change to your project. Good job and good luck with LoopGPT, that looks nice!

You could give this a shot: https://github.com/lhenault/simpleAI

I don't know if this applies to your use case but this would probably work if you are looking for an llm to help with programming. Haven't really played around with it but this may work for general llm tasks, it doesn't have a web UI though.

As per llama.cpp specifically, you can indeed add any model, it's just a matter of doing a bit of glue code and declaring it in your models.toml config. It's quite straightforward thanks to some provided tools for Python (see here for instance). For any other language it's a matter of integrating it through the gRPC interface (which shouldn't be too hard for Llama.cpp if you're comfortable in C++). I'm planning to also add support for REST for model in the backend at some point too.

Shameless plug but I’ve been recently working on SimpleAI, a project replicating the main endpoints from OpenAI API, allowing you to seamlessly switch from their API to your own one, as it’s compatible with OpenAI client.

I wanted to share with you SimpleAI, a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI API.