litellm VS text-generation-webui

There are a few libs that already abstract this away, for example:

- https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

- https://jxnl.github.io/instructor/

- langchain

It's not hard for me to imagine a future where there is something like the CNCF for AI models, tools, and infra.

Hey, are you just looking for litellm - https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

context - i'm the repo maintainer

It should be possible using LiteLLM and a patch or a proxy.

https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

This article will demonstrate how txtai can integrate with llama.cpp, LiteLLM and custom generation methods. For custom generation, we'll show how to run inference with a Mamba model.

I use this with ollama and works perfectly https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

Another abstraction layer library is: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

For me the killer feature of a library like this would be if it implemented function calling. Even if it was for a very restricted grammar - like the traditional ReAct prompt:

  Solve a question answering task with interleaving Thought, Action, Observation   usteps. Thought can reason about the current situation, and Action can be three types:

Welcome to Open Interpreter. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▌ OpenAI API key not found To use GPT-4 (recommended) please provide an OpenAI API key. To use Code-Llama (free but less capable) press enter. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── OpenAI API key: [the API Key I inputed] Tip: To save this key for later, run export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key on Mac/Linux or setx OPENAI_API_KEY your_api_key on Windows. ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ▌ Model set to GPT-4 Open Interpreter will require approval before running code. Use interpreter -y to bypass this. Press CTRL-C to exit. > export OPENAI_API_KEY=your_api_key Give Feedback / Get Help: https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/new LiteLLM.Info: If you need to debug this error, use `litellm.set_verbose=True'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin/interpreter", line 8, in sys.exit(cli()) ^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/core.py", line 22, in cli cli(self) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/cli/cli.py", line 254, in cli interpreter.chat() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/core.py", line 76, in chat for _ in self._streaming_chat(message=message, display=display): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/core.py", line 97, in _streaming_chat yield from terminal_interface(self, message) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/terminal_interface/terminal_interface.py", line 62, in terminal_interface for chunk in interpreter.chat(message, display=False, stream=True): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/core.py", line 105, in _streaming_chat yield from self._respond() File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/core.py", line 131, in _respond yield from respond(self) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/core/respond.py", line 61, in respond for chunk in interpreter._llm(messages_for_llm): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/interpreter/llm/setup_openai_coding_llm.py", line 94, in coding_llm response = litellm.completion(**params) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/utils.py", line 792, in wrapper raise e File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/utils.py", line 751, in wrapper result = original_function(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/timeout.py", line 53, in wrapper result = future.result(timeout=local_timeout_duration) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 456, in result return self.__get_result() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 401, in __get_result raise self._exception File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/timeout.py", line 42, in async_func return func(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/main.py", line 1183, in completion raise exception_type( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/utils.py", line 2959, in exception_type raise e File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/utils.py", line 2355, in exception_type raise original_exception File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/main.py", line 441, in completion raise e File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/litellm/main.py", line 423, in completion response = openai.ChatCompletion.create( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/api_resources/chat_completion.py", line 25, in create return super().create(*args, **kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/api_resources/abstract/engine_api_resource.py", line 155, in create response, _, api_key = requestor.request( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 299, in request resp, got_stream = self._interpret_response(result, stream) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 710, in _interpret_response self._interpret_response_line( File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/openai/api_requestor.py", line 775, in _interpret_response_line raise self.handle_error_response( openai.error.InvalidRequestError: The model `gpt-4` does not exist or you do not have access to it. Learn more: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7102672-how-can-i-access-gpt-4.

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?