Rust-bert Alternatives

rust-bert reviews and mentions

• How to leverage the state-of-the-art NLP models in Rust
  3 projects | /r/infinilabs | 7 Jun 2023

  brew install libtorch brew link libtorch brew ls --verbose libtorch | grep dylib export LIBTORCH=$(brew --cellar pytorch)/$(brew info --json pytorch | jq -r '.[0].installed[0].version') export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LIBTORCH}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH git clone https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert.git cd rust-bert ORT_STRATEGY=system cargo run --example sentence_embeddings

• Transformers.js
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2023

  I'd like to use this transformer model in rust (because it's on the backend, because I can use data munging and it will be faster, and for other reasons). It looks like a good model! But, it doesn't compile on Apple Silicon for wierd linking issues that aren't apparent - https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/issues/338. I've spent a large part of today and yesterday attempting to find out why. The only other library that I've found for doing this kind of thing programmatically (particularly sentiment analysis) is this (https://github.com/JohnSnowLabs/spark-nlp). Some of the models look a little older, which is OK, but it does mean that I'd have to do this in another language.

  Does anyone know of any sentiment analysis software that can be tuned (other than VADER - I'm looking for more along the lines of a transformer model) - like BERT, but is pretrained and can be used in Rust or Python? Otherwise I'll probably using spark-nlp and having to spin another process.

  Thanks.

• Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2023

  Give this a look: https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

  If you have Pytorch configured correctly, this should "just work" for a lot of the smaller models. It won't be a 1:1 ChatGPT replacement, but you can build some pretty cool stuff with it.

  > it's basically Python or bust in this space

  More or less, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. If you're on Apple Silicon, you have plenty of performance headroom to deploy Python code for this. I've gotten this library to work on systems with as little as 2gb of memory, so outside of ultra-low-end use cases, you should be fine.

• Self-hosted Whisper-based voice recognition server for open Android phones
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023

  I suspect something similar is possible with ChatGPT. Using the GPT-neo-125m model I've been able to get some really convincing (if lackluster) answers on 4 core ARM hardware and less than 2gb of memory. With enough sampling, you can get legible paragraph-length responses out in less than 10 seconds; that's pretty good for an offline program in my book.

  I'm using rust-bert to serve it over a Discord bot, similar to one of their examples[0]. It's running on Oracle VCPUs right now, but with dedi hardware and ML acceleration I can imagine the field moving really quickly.

  [0] https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/blob/master/exampl...

• Ask HN: What AI developer tools do you wish you'd discovered sooner?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Feb 2023

  Maybe a little played-out, but I've been having a blast with the rust-bert library this weekend: https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

  With a little fanagling, you can get the GPT-Neo-1.3b model running on those free Oracle ARM VMs you can provision. I'm impressed, especially with the performance of the smallest model that uses less than a gig of memory.

• Ask HN: Has anyone made a toy that integrates ChatGPT with voice into a toy?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2023

  Nope, but it's probably possible on a smaller, hobbyist scale. I've been playing with a few GPT libraries this week (namely rust-bert[0]) and I've been really impressive with local generation results on my crappy 2 core netbook. I can get 2 sentences to generate in ~5 seconds, which is pretty good in my book.

  Armed with a Pi-style SBC and your AI library of choice, I bet you could get pretty far implementing some stuff. Bonus points if you use Whisper for speech-to-text, and double brownie points if you can get an AI voice to read the generation back.

  [0] https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert/tree/master/exampl...

• [D] Is Rust stable/mature enough to be used for production ML? Is making Rust-based python wrappers a good choice for performance heavy uses and internal ML dependencies in 2021?
  8 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 30 Dec 2021

  If you are using BERT models and some miscellaneous other related stuff then you should check out the rust-bert and Bert Sentence repos https://github.com/guillaume-be/rust-bert

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