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guidance
Discontinued A guidance language for controlling large language models. [Moved to: https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance] (by microsoft)
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InfluxDB
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hof
Framework that joins data models, schemas, code generation, and a task engine. Language and technology agnostic.
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Constrained-Text-Generation-Studio
Code repo for "Most Language Models can be Poets too: An AI Writing Assistant and Constrained Text Generation Studio" at the (CAI2) workshop, jointly held at (COLING 2022)
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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
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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:") -
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.
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Building a local AI smart Home Assistant
Honor to meet you!
[Anonymous] founder of a similarly high-profile initiative here.
> Creating a prompt to write JSON is possible but need quite an elaborate prompt and even then the LLM can make errors. We want to make sure that all JSON coming out of the model is directly actionable without having to ask the LLM what they might have meant for a specific value
The LLM cannot make errors. The LLM spits out probabilities for the next tokens. What you do with it is up to you. You can make errors in how you handle this.
Standard usages pick the most likely token, or a random token from the top many choices. You don't need to do that. You can pick ONLY words which are valid JSON, or even ONLY words which are JSON matching your favorite JSON format. This is a library which does this:
https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines
The one piece of advice I will give: Do NOT neuter the AI like OpenAI did. There is a near-obsession to define "AI safety" as "not hurting my feelings" (as opposed to "not hacking my computer," "not launching nuclear missiles," or "not exterminating humanity."). For technical reasons, that makes them work much worse. For practical reasons, I like AIs with humanity and personality (much as the OP has). If it says something offensive, I won't break.
AI safety, in this context, means validating that it's not:
* setting my thermostat to 300 degrees centigrade
* power-cycling my devices 100 times per second to break them
* waking me in the middle of the night
... and similar.
Also:
* Big win if it fits on a single 16GB card, and especially not just NVidia. The cheapest way to run an LLM is an Intel Arc A770 16GB. The second-cheapest is an NVidia 4060 Ti 16GB
* Azure gives a safer (not safe) way of running cloud-based models for people without that. I'm pretty sure there's a business model running these models safely too.
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