chat-ui VS text-generation-webui

Zephyr 141B is a Mixtral 8x22B fine-tune. Here are some interesting details

- Base model: Mixtral 8x22B, 8 experts, 141B total params, 35B activated params

- Fine-tuned with ORPO, a new alignment algorithm with no SFT step (hence much faster than DPO/PPO)

- Trained with 7K open data instances -> high-quality, synthetic, multi-turn

- Apache 2

Everything is open:

- Final Model: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v...

- Base Model: https://huggingface.co/mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1

- Fine-tune data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/argilla/distilabel-capybara-...

- Recipe/code to train the model: https://huggingface.co/datasets/argilla/distilabel-capybara-...

- Open-source inference engine: https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference

- Open-source UI code https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui

Have fun!

As long as you have a free Hugging Face account, you can sign up and exploit HuggingChat, a web-based chat interface where you will find 5 large language models to play with (Mixtral-7B-it v0.1 and v0.2, Command R plus, Gemma 1.1-7B-it, Dolphin). You will also have the possibility to exploit several assistants made by the Hugging Face community, or even create your own!

I submitted something about this the other day (and it got flagged)- poked around a little bit and the only interesting thing I could find is this: https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui/issues/254 and I don't really even understand what it is, it references the stuff the dude who wrote this is discussing. I had kinda written the whole thing off as someone with too much time on their hands and is just f'ing around with stuff for whatever reason.

I think they made this as well: https://chat.openai.com/g/g-KT4gusP3Y-a-l-i-s-t-a-i-r-e-earl... - it doesn't seem very useful.

*¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to me after spending an hr or so poking around, it seemed like a bored modern tech savvy young person playing around.

- https://github.com/huggingface/chat-ui

Hugging Face Chat - open-source repo powering Hugging Chat!

If you don't want to do coding, I think HuggingFace's chat-ui can come in handy with web retrieval RAG and llama-cpp running as a server. Please check their documentation on how to setup( See "Running your own models using a custom endpoint" section on their Github).

yes! it's proprietary, invasive, and harvests your data and use it for improving the AI, Ultman went to Israel weeks after Chatgpt was introduced, Israel like any other tech-giant-country needs to make sure that it has control over that data and/or use it to achieve its goals, so it's better to find offline FOSS alternatives (if you have a decent enough PC) or use HuggingChat as an online FOSS alternative, I find it better than GPT 3.5 in many aspects

I have categorized some of the smartphone brands by their parent company using HuggingChat based on RLHF, Google's Bard, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. All of them are powered by LLMs, and both ChatGPT and Perplexity use GPT-3.5.

I'm looking for something like https://huggingface.co/chat/ or OpenAssistant, but it should target OpenAI's api.

Some of the tools offer a path to doing tool use (fetching URLs and doing things with them) or RAG (searching your documents). I think Oobabooga https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui offers the latter through plugins.

Our tool, https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app also supports the latter (document search) using local llms.

You can use webui https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

Once you get a version up and running I make a copy before I update it as several times updates have broken my working version and caused headaches.

a decent explanation of parameters outside of reading archive papers: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/03-%...

a news ai website:

The other answers are recommending paths which give you #1. less control and #2. projects with smaller eco-systems.

If you want a truly general purpose front-end for LLMs, the only good solution right now is oobabooga: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

All other alternatives have only small fractions of the features that oobabooga supports. All other alternatives only support a fraction of the LLM backends that oobabooga supports, etc.

The example waifu in text-generation-webui is good enough for me.

https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main...

> Downloading text-generation-webui takes a minute, let's you use any model and get going.

What you're missing here is you're already in this area deep enough to know what ooogoababagababa text-generation-webui is. Let's back out to the "average Windows desktop user" level. Assuming they even know how to find it:

1) Go to https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui?tab=readm...

2) See a bunch of instructions opening a terminal window and running random batch/powershell scripts. Powershell, etc will likely prompt you with a scary warning. Then you start wondering who ooobabagagagaba is...

3) Assuming you get this far (many users won't even get to step 1) you're greeted with a web interface[0] FILLED to the brim with technical jargon and extremely overwhelming options just to get a model loaded, which is another mind warp because you get to try to select between a bunch of random models with no clear meaning and non-sensical/joke sounding names from someone called "TheBloke". Ok...

Let's say you somehow braved this gauntlet and get this far now you get to chat with it. Ok, what about my local documents? text-generation-webui itself has nothing for that. Repeat this process over the 10 random open source projects from a bunch of names you've never heard of in an attempt to accomplish that.

This is "I saw this thing from Nvidia explode all over media, twitter, youtube, etc. I downloaded it from Nvidia, double-clicked, pointed it at a folder with documents, and it works".

That's the difference and it's very significant.

[0] - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oobabooga/screenshots/main...

Maybe a copout answer, but setting up a local LLM on my development machine has been invaluable. I use Deep Seek Coder 6.7 [0] and Oobabooga's UI [1]. It helps me solve simple problems and find bugs, while still leaving the larger architecture decisions to me.

[0] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instr...

[1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui

You can download it and run it with [this](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui). There's an API mode that you could leverage from your VS Code extension.

Same question here. Ollama is fantastic as it makes it very easy to run models locally, But if you already have a lot of code that processes OpenAI API responses (with retry, streaming, async, caching etc), it would be nice to be able to simply switch the API client to Ollama, without having to have a whole other branch of code that handles Alama API responses. One way to do an easy switch is using the litellm library as a go-between but it’s not ideal (and I also recently found issues with their chat formatting for mistral models).

For an OpenAI compatible API my current favorite method is to spin up models using oobabooga TGW. Your OpenAI API code then works seamlessly by simply switching out the api_base to the ooba endpoint. Regarding chat formatting, even ooba’s Mistral formatting has issues[1] so I am doing my own in Langroid using HuggingFace tokenizer.apply_chat_template [2]

[1] https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/issues/53...

[2] https://github.com/langroid/langroid/blob/main/langroid/lang...

Related question - I assume ollama auto detects and applies the right chat formatting template for a model?