simpleAI VS guidance

Not related to my own project SimpleAI despite the name, but looks like we can easily make the two work together, to keep it « simple ». Nice work!

Using this as an opportunity to mention my own related project, perhaps it can end up on your nice list one day. :)

https://github.com/lhenault/SimpleAI

You could have a look at a project I’ve been working on, SimpleAI, doing exactly this by replicating the OpenAI endpoints (you can then use their JS client for integration). Adding StableLM should be straightforward, I plan to add it to the examples in the upcoming days once I have a bit of time.

I’ve built SimpleAI with exactly these kinds of use cases in mind. That should allow supporting any model with minimal / no change to your project. Good job and good luck with LoopGPT, that looks nice!

You could give this a shot: https://github.com/lhenault/simpleAI

I don't know if this applies to your use case but this would probably work if you are looking for an llm to help with programming. Haven't really played around with it but this may work for general llm tasks, it doesn't have a web UI though.

As per llama.cpp specifically, you can indeed add any model, it's just a matter of doing a bit of glue code and declaring it in your models.toml config. It's quite straightforward thanks to some provided tools for Python (see here for instance). For any other language it's a matter of integrating it through the gRPC interface (which shouldn't be too hard for Llama.cpp if you're comfortable in C++). I'm planning to also add support for REST for model in the backend at some point too.

Shameless plug but I’ve been recently working on SimpleAI, a project replicating the main endpoints from OpenAI API, allowing you to seamlessly switch from their API to your own one, as it’s compatible with OpenAI client.

I wanted to share with you SimpleAI, a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI API.

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)