basaran VS text-generation-inference

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.

I wanted to write that TGI inference engine is not Open Source anymore, but they have reverted the license back to Apache 2.0 for the new version TGI v2.0: https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/rel...

Good news!

Setting up a server for multiple users is very different from setting up LLM for yourself. A safe bet would be to just use TGI, which supports continuous batching and is very easy to run via Docker on your server. https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference

Okay, I actually got local co-pilot set up. You will need these 4 things.

1) CodeLlama 13B or another FIM model https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-13b-hf. You want "Fill in Middle" models because you're looking at context on both sides of your cursor.

2) HuggingFace llm-ls https://github.com/huggingface/llm-ls A large language mode Language Server (is this making sense yet)

3) HuggingFace inference framework. https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference At least when I tested you couldn't use something like llama.cpp or exllama with the llm-ls, so you need to break out the heavy duty badboy HuggingFace inference server. Just config and run. Now config and run llm-ls.

4) Okay, I mean you need an editor. I just tried nvim, and this was a few weeks ago, so there may be better support. My expereicen was that is was full honest to god copilot. The CodeLlama models are known to be quite good for its size. The FIM part is great. Boilerplace works so much easier with the surrounding context. I'd like to see more models released that can work this way.

A simple microservice would be https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference .

Works flawlessly in Docker on my Windows machine, which is extremely shocking.

I am wondering what is the best / most cost-efficient way to serve llama V2. - llama.cpp (is it production ready or just for playing around?) ? - Triton inference server ? - HF text generation inference ?