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mamba
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Based: Simple linear attention language models
> how the recall can grow unbounded with no tradeoff
this? https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba/issues/175
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Mamba: The Easy Way
If you want to learn this stuff as a computer engineer, you can read the code here [0]. I find the math quite helpful.
[0]: https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba
- FLaNK Stack 05 Feb 2024
- Introduction to State Space Models (SSM)
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Fortran inference code for the Mamba state space language model
This model was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38522428 It's a new kind of ML model architecture that can be used instead of a transformer in LLMs.
See also the original repo from the paper: https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba
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Mamba outperforms transformers "everywhere we tried"
[2] - https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba
Out of curiosity, does anyone feel as though there's any benefit to linking to reddit when we can link to whatever the link is? I for one do not click the link and read discussion on reddit - if I wanted that sort of discussion, I would browse there, not HN.
- GitHub – State-Spaces/Mamba
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Generate valid JSON with Mamba models
The library is compatible with any auto-regressive model, not transformers. To prove our point we integrated Mamba, a new state-space model architecture, to the library. Try it out!
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[D] Thoughts on Mamba?
I ran the NanoGPT of Karparthy replacing Self-Attention with Mamba on his TinyShakespeare Dataset and within 5 minutes it started spitting out the following:
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Mamba-Chat: A Chat LLM based on State Space Models
You might have come across the paper Mamba paper in the last days, which was the first attempt at scaling up state space models to 2.8B parameters to work on language data.
outlines
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Show HN: LLM-powered NPCs running on your hardware
[4] https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/tree/main
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Advanced RAG with guided generation
The next step is defining how to guide generation. For this step, we'll use the Outlines library. Outlines is a library for controlling how tokens are generated. It applies logic to enforce schemas, regular expressions and/or specific output formats such as JSON.
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Anthropic's Haiku Beats GPT-4 Turbo in Tool Use
No benchmarks, just my anecdotal experience trying to get local LLM's to respond with JSON. The method above works for my use case nearly 100% of the time. Other things I've tried (e.g. `outlines`[0]) are really slow or don't work at all. Would love to hear what others have tried!
0 - https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
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Show HN: Chess-LLM, using constrained-generation to force LLMs to battle it out
As I was playing with the Outlines library (https://outlines-dev.github.io/outlines/), I discussed with my friend Maxime how funny it would be if we set up a way to pair LLMs in chess matches till one wins. The first time I tried it, it required substantial prompt engineering to get some of those LLMs to propose valid moves. Large language models can mostly stay focused and even play rather well; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37616170 for example. However small language models aren't as easy to convince.
Some of those LLMs have seen very little chess notation and so after the first few opening moves there aren't any valid tactics, let alone strategy, so they would end up either repeating the same move, or hallucinate moves that are not valid (Kxe5, but there would be a queen on e5!)
Then Outlines came along and we could force them to pick valid moves with little cost! Maxime worked super fast and got a first version of this idea as a gradio space.
I think it is pretty fun to see the (mostly terrible, but otherwise valid) chess that those LLMs play. Maybe it will even be instructive to how we can create small LLMs that can play much better than the ones on the leaderboard.
Anyway, you can check it out here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/mlabonne/chessllm
What is interactive about it: you can pick the LLMs from available models on HuggingFace (within reason, small LLMs are preferable so that the space does not crash) or push one of your own small models to HF and have it fight with others. At the end of the game the leaderboard is updated.
Hope you find it fun!
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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
- Show HN: Fructose, LLM calls as strongly typed functions
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Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.2
And I think “just” Markdown doesn’t quite cut it for safe guidance. For example: directly generating content for your components. But I’m really excited about tooling like outlines appearing, with a greater focus on guided generation for structured data. Because this is often what we actually need!
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Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents?
It's pretty easy to force a locally running model to always output valid JSON: when it gives you probabilities for the next tokens, discard all tokens that would result in invalid JSON at that point (basically reverse parsing), and then apply the usual techniques to pick the completion only from the remaining tokens. You can even validate against a JSON schema that way, so long as it is simple enough.
There are a bunch of libraries for this already, e.g.: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
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Launch HN: AgentHub (YC W24) – A no-code automation platform
https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/blob/7fae436345e621... squares with my experience using LLMs for anything real
sequence = generator("Alice had 4 apples and Bob ate 2. Write an expression for Alice's apples:")
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Ollama Python and JavaScript Libraries
There are "smaller" models, for example tinyllama 1.1B (tiny seems like an exaggeration). PHI2 is 2.7B parameters. I can't name a 500M parameter model but there is probably one.
The problem is they are all still broadly trained and so they end up being Jack of all trades master of none. You'd have to fine tune them if you want them good at some narrow task and other than code completion I don't know that anyone has done that.
If you want to generate json or other structured output, there is Outlines https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines that constrains the output to match a regex so it guarantees e.g. the model will generate a valid API call, although it could still be nonsense if the model doesn't understand, it will just match the regex. There are other similar tools around.
What are some alternatives?
miniforge - A conda-forge distribution.
guidance - A guidance language for controlling large language models.
pip - The Python package installer
jsonformer - A Bulletproof Way to Generate Structured JSON from Language Models
llm.f90 - LLM inference in Fortran
json-schema-spec - The JSON Schema specification
conda - A system-level, binary package and environment manager running on all major operating systems and platforms.
torch-grammar
mamba-chat - Mamba-Chat: A chat LLM based on the state-space model architecture 🐍
Constrained-Text-Genera
spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
langroid - Harness LLMs with Multi-Agent Programming