A quick primer on structured generation 🧑‍🎓 How it works Why it’s important

Releasing Outlines-core 0.1.0: structured generation in Rust and Python

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A quick primer on structured generation 🧑‍🎓 How it works Why it’s important Why rewrite in Rust? 🦀 Speed Safety and Reliability Separation of concerns Portability Contribute dottxt and Hugging Face are excited to announce that we have been collaborating on outlines-core, a Rust port of outlines’s core algorithms for structured generation. On top of getting reliable output from LLMs with outlines, this Rust port offers several further benefits to users of outlines:

These improvements should not only improve the performance for existing outlines users, but also dramatically increase the ways users can incorporate structured generation into their LLM workflows. outlines-core is now public, integrated in outlines, and the version 0.1.0 of the Python bindings are out. You can find the repo here.

Structured generation means that your LLM is guaranteed to follow a desired format. This could be JSON, a Pydantic Model, a regular expression or a context-free grammar. The key is that structured generation forbids the 'wrong' tokens from being generated.