khoj VS llamafile

There are already several RAG chat open source solutions available. Two that immediately come to mind are:

Danswer

https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer

Khoj

https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

I'm a fan of Khoj. Been using it for months. https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

This is the easiest I found, on here too.

Thanks for the feedback. Does your machine have a GPU? 32GB CPU RAM should be enough but GPU speeds up response time.

We have fixes for the seg fault[1] and improvement to the query speed[2] that should be released by end of day today[3].

Update khoj to version 0.10.1 with pip install --upgrade khoj-assistant to see if that improves your experience.

The number of documents/pages/entries doesn't scale memory utilization as quickly and doesn't affect the search, chat response time as much

[1]: The seg fault would occur when folks sent multiple chat queries at the same time. A lock and some UX improvements fixed that

[2]: The query time improvements are done by increasing batch size, to trade-off increased memory utilization for more speed

[3]: The relevant pull request for reference: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj/pull/393

We recently integrated Llama 2 into Khoj. I wanted to share a short real-world evaluation of using Llama 2 for the chat with docs use-cases and hear which models have worked best for you all. The standard benchmarks (ARC, HellaSwag, MMLU etc.) are not tuned for evaluating this

Self-host your Notion assistant using the instructions here. You'll need Python >= 3.8 to get started.

Here's an early example: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

I think the llamafile[0] system works the best. Binary works on the command line or launches a mini webserver. Llamafile offers builds of Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct, so presumably they may package this one up as well (potentially a quantized format).

You would have to confirm with someone deeper in the ecosystem, but I think you should be able to run this new model as is against a llamafile?

[0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Thermostats: https://www.sinopetech.com/en/products/thermostat/

I haven't tried running a local text-to-speech engine backed by an LLM to control Home Assistant. Maybe someone is working on this already?

TTS: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

LLM: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

LLM: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-D...

It would take some tweaking to get the voice commands working correctly.

While I did not succeed in making the matmul code from https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/blob/main/llamafil... work in isolation, I compared eigen, openblas, and mkl: https://gist.github.com/Dobiasd/e664c681c4a7933ef5d2df7caa87...

In this (very primitive!) benchmark, MKL was a bit better than eigen (~10%) on my machine (i5-6600).

Since the article https://justine.lol/matmul/ compared the new kernels with MLK, we can (by transitivity) compare the new kernels with Eigen this way, at least very roughly for this one use-case.

Yes, they're just ZIP files that also happen to be actually portable executables.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile?tab=readme-ov-file...

have you seen llamafile[0]?

[0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

llama.cpp has integrated gemma support. So you can use llamafile for this. It is a standalone executable that is portable across most popular OSes.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

So, download the executable from the releases page under assets. You want either just main or just server. Don't get the huge ones with the model inlined in the file. The executable is about 30MB in size,

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/download/...

The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I'm torn as to which one to use :)

1: Quite literally hours ago: https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/

Slightly off topic, here is the best local llama.cpp wrapper I've run into:

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

You can download any .gguf model (not just the ones in their examples) and run it locally (as long as you have the ram for it). I was running 7B models with ease on an old FX8350 and now 13B models on a 5600X (32GB RAM on both machines).

This wrapper spins up a local web server that runs a simple web frontend to use immediately with no code, but also exposes an OpenAI compatible API for dev work and alt frontends (like SillyTavern).