open-llms VS guidance

Everyone knows about ChatGPT by now, but did you know there are other models like "Mistral" or "Falcon" - you can view a full list of open-source models here or on huggingface.

This is the most well-maintained list of commercially usable open LLMs: https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

MPT, OpenLLaMA, and Falcon are probably the most generally useful.

For code, Replit Code (specifically replit-code-instruct-glaive) and StarCoder (WizardCoder-15B) are the current top open models and both can be used commercially.

There's also MPT, which has a 7B, and Falcon, with a 7B and 40B although they have not had the inference tuning in community projects that the llamas have had. This is a good repo for reviewing what's available atm: https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

If I was going to do the same I would at least build off of something, check out https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms, you should at least have a decent understanding of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and this link is pretty good on the basic concepts you need inc classification and learning types, good luck friend.

This list might help: https://github.com/eugeneyan/open-llms

This IS Microsoft Guidance, they seem to have spun off a separate GitHub organization for it.

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance redirects to https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance now.

... and it sets the value of "armor" to "leather" so that you can use that value later in your code if you wish to. Guidance is pretty powerful, but I find the grammar hard to work with. I think the idea of being able to upload a bit of code or a context-free grammar to guide the model is super smart.

https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/blob/d2c5e3cbb730e337b...

Here's one thing I don't get.

Why all the rigamarole of hoping you get a valid response, adding last-mile validators to detect invalid responses, trying to beg the model to pretty please give me the syntax I'm asking for...

...when you can guarantee a valid JSON syntax by only sampling tokens that are valid? Instead of greedily picking the highest-scoring token every time, you select the highest-scoring token that conforms to the requested format.

This is what Guidance does already, also from Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance

But OpenAI apparently does not expose the full scores of all tokens, it only exposes the highest-scoring token. Which is so odd, because if you run models locally, using Guidance is trivial, and you can guarantee your json is correct every time. It's faster to generate, too!

Perhaps something as simple as stating it was first built around OpenAI models and later expanded to local via plugins?

I've been meaning to ask you, have you seen/used MS Guidance[0] 'language' at all? I don't know if it's the right abstraction to interface as a plugin with what you've got in llm cli but there's a lot about Guidance that seems incredibly useful to local inference [token healing and acceleration especially].

[0]https://github.com/microsoft/guidance

LangChain is just too much, personal solutions are great, until you need to compare metrics or methodologies of prompt generation. Then the onus is on these n-parties who are sharing their resources to ensure that all of them used the same templates, they were generated the same way, with the only diff being the models these prompts were run on.

So maybe a simpler library like Microsoft's Guidance (https://github.com/microsoft/guidance)? It does this really well.

I am unclear on the status of the project but here is the conversation that seem to be tracking it: https://github.com/microsoft/guidance/discussions/201

Let's have a subreddit about Guidance!

You should look at guidance for an LLM to fill out a template. Define the output data structure and provide the real estate listing in the context (see the JSON template example here https://github.com/microsoft/guidance)