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guidance
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Anthropic's Haiku Beats GPT-4 Turbo in Tool Use
[1]: https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance/tree/main
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Show HN: Prompts as (WASM) Programs
> The most obvious usage of this is forcing a model to output valid JSON
Isn't this something that Outlines [0], Guidance [1] and others [2] already solve much more elegantly?
0. https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
1. https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
2. https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang
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LiteLlama-460M-1T has 460M parameters trained with 1T tokens
Or combine it with something like llama.cpp's grammer or microsoft's guidance-ai[0] (which I prefer) which would allow adding some react-style prompting and external tools. As others have mentioned, instruct tuning would help too.
[0] https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance
- Forcing AI to Follow a Specific Answer Pattern Using GBNF Grammar
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Prompting LLMs to constrain output
have been experimenting with guidance and lmql. a bit too early to give any well formed opinions but really do like the idea of constraining llm output.
- Guidance is back 🥳
- New: LangChain templates – fastest way to build a production-ready LLM app
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Is supervised learning dead for computer vision?
Thanks for your comment.
I did not know about "Betteridge's law of headlines", quite interesting. Thanks for sharing :)
You raise some interesting points.
1) Safety: It is true that LVMs and LLMs have unknown biases and could potentially create unsafe content. However, this is not necessarily unique to them, for example, Google had the same problem with their supervised learning model https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go.... It all depends on the original data. I believe we need systems on top of our models to ensure safety. It is also possible to restrict the output domain of our models (https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance). Instead of allowing our LVMs to output any words, we could restrict it to only being able to answer "red, green, blue..." when giving the color of a car.
2) Cost: You are right right now LVMs are quite expensive to run. As you said are a great way to go to market faster but they cannot run on low-cost hardware for the moment. However, they could help with training those smaller models. Indeed, with see in the NLP domain that a lot of smaller models are trained on data created with GPT models. You can still distill the knowledge of your LVMs into a custom smaller model that can run on embedded devices. The advantage is that you can use your LVMs to generate data when it is scarce and use it as a fallback when your smaller device is uncertain of the answer.
3) Labelling data: I don't think labeling data is necessarily cheap. First, you have to collect the data, depending on the frequency of your events could take months of monitoring if you want to build a large-scale dataset. Lastly, not all labeling is necessarily cheap. I worked at a semiconductor company and labeled data was scarce as it required expert knowledge and could only be done by experienced employees. Indeed not all labelling can be done externally.
However, both approaches are indeed complementary and I think systems that will work the best will rely on both.
Thanks again for the thought-provoking discussion. I hope this answer some of the concerns you raised
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Show HN: Elelem – TypeScript LLMs with tracing, retries, and type safety
I've had a bit of trouble getting function calling to work with cases that aren't just extracting some data from the input. The format is correct but it was harder to get the correct data if it wasn't a simple extraction.
Hopefully OpenAI and others will offer something like https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance at some point to guarantee overall output structure.
Failed validations will retry, but from what I've seen JSONSchema + generated JSON examples are decently reliable in practice for gpt-3.5-turbo and extremely reliable on gpt-4.
autogen
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Agents of Change: Navigating the Rise of AI Agents in 2024
AutoGen is an AI framework by Microsoft designed to streamline multi-agent conversations. AutoGen allows agents to communicate, share information, and make collective decisions. This setup enhances the responsiveness and dynamism of conversations. Developers use AutoGen to tailor agents to specific roles, such as programmer, content writer, CEO, etc. This enhances their ability to handle tasks from simple queries to intricate problem-solving.
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Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – AI-assisted technical design docs
I am still playing around with the project but FYI, the parsing for the github repo URL at https://glide.agenticlabs.com/ will fail if there's a trailing slash in the repo link i.e. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/ won't work but https://github.com/microsoft/autogen will.
- Show HN: Prompts as (WASM) Programs
- Enable Next-Gen Large Language
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AutoGen v0.2.2 released
New example notebook demoing video transcript translate with whisper.
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AutoGen v0.2.1 released
New release: v0.2.1
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AI is making us all more productive — but in a weird and unexpected way
I disagree with the conclusion. In software, I've seen 10x engineers in person and I don't think they're replaceable. Whereas, the new college grad or that entry level dev who doesn't design anything and just writes small amounts of code, doing exactly as told is replaceable by an AI. Frameworks similar to Microsoft Autogen(https://github.com/microsoft/autogen) can in theory build agents who can do these tasks with ease whereas a 10x engineer can focus on directing the agents and designing systems.
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Microsoft autogen
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AutoGen v0.2.0b4 released
CompressibleAgent (experimental) can be used to handle long conversations. Notebook: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agentchat_compression.ipynb
What are some alternatives?
lmql - A language for constraint-guided and efficient LLM programming.
Auto-GPT - An experimental open-source attempt to make GPT-4 fully autonomous. [Moved to: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/AutoGPT]
semantic-kernel - Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
langchain - 🦜🔗 Build context-aware reasoning applications
SuperAGI - <⚡️> SuperAGI - A dev-first open source autonomous AI agent framework. Enabling developers to build, manage & run useful autonomous agents quickly and reliably.
NeMo-Guardrails - NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.
haystack - :mag: LLM orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. Connect components (models, vector DBs, file converters) to pipelines or agents that can interact with your data. With advanced retrieval methods, it's best suited for building RAG, question answering, semantic search or conversational agent chatbots.
text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.
AgentVerse - 🤖 AgentVerse 🪐 is designed to facilitate the deployment of multiple LLM-based agents in various applications, which primarily provides two frameworks: task-solving and simulation
outlines - Structured Text Generation