Monday, April 22, 2024

Local RAG Explained with Unstructured and LangChain

In this tutorial, I do a code walkthrough and demonstrate how to implement the RAG pipeline using Unstructured, LangChain, and Pydantic for processing invoice data and extracting structured JSON data.

 

Monday, April 15, 2024

Local LLM RAG with Unstructured and LangChain [Structured JSON]

Using unstructured library to pre-process PDF document content, to be in a cleaner format. This helps LLM to produce more accurate response. JSON response is generated thanks to Nous Hermes 2 PRO LLM. Without any additional post-processing. Using Pydantic dynamic class to validate response to make sure it matches request. 

 

Sunday, March 31, 2024

LlamaIndex Upgrade to 0.10.x Experience

I explain key points you should keep in mind when upgrading to LlamaIndex 0.10.x. 

 

Monday, March 25, 2024

LLM Structured Output for Function Calling with Ollama

I explain how function calling works with LLM. This is often confused concept, LLM doesn't call a function - LLM retuns JSON response with values to be used for function call from your environment. In this example I'm using Sparrow agent, to call a function. 

 

Sunday, March 17, 2024

FastAPI File Upload and Temporary Directory for Stateless API

I explain how to handle file upload with FastAPI and how to process the file by using Python temporary directory. Files placed into temporary directory are automatically removed once request completes, this is very convenient for stateless API. 

 

Sunday, March 10, 2024

Optimizing Receipt Processing with LlamaIndex and PaddleOCR

LlamaIndex Text Completion function allows to execute LLM request combining custom data and the question, without using Vector DB. This is very useful when processing output from OCR, it simplifies the RAG pipeline. In this video I explain, how OCR can be combined with LLM to process image documents in Sparrow.

 

Sunday, March 3, 2024

LlamaIndex Multimodal with Ollama [Local LLM]

I describe how to run LlamaIndex Multimodal with local LlaVA LLM through Ollama. Advantage of this approach - you can process image documents with LLM directly, without running through OCR, this should lead to better results. This functionality is integrated as separate LLM agent into Sparrow. 

 

Monday, February 26, 2024

LLM Agents with Sparrow

I explain new functionality in Sparrow - LLM agents support. This means you can implement independently running agents, and invoke them from CLI or API. This makes it easier to run various LLM related processing within Sparrow. 

 

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Extracting Invoice Structured Output with Haystack and Ollama Local LLM

I implemented Sparrow agent with Haystack structured output functionality to extract invoice data. This runs locally through Ollama, using LLM to retrieve key/value pairs data. 

 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

Local LLM RAG Pipelines with Sparrow Plugins [Python Interface]

There are many tools and frameworks around LLM, evolving and improving daily. I added plugin support in Sparrow to run different pipelines through the same Sparrow interface. Each pipeline can be implemented with different tech (LlamaIndex, Haystack, etc.) and run independently. The main advantage is that you can test various RAG functionalities from a single app with a unified API and choose the one that works best in the specific use case. 

 

Monday, January 29, 2024

LLM Structured Output with Local Haystack RAG and Ollama

Haystack 2.0 provides functionality to process LLM output and ensure proper JSON structure, based on predefined Pydantic class. I show how you can run this on your local machine, with Ollama. This is possible thanks to OllamaGenerator class available from Haystack. 

 

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

JSON Output with Notus Local LLM [LlamaIndex, Ollama, Weaviate]

In this video, I show how to get JSON output from Notus LLM running locally with Ollama. JSON output is generated with LlamaIndex using the dynamic Pydantic class approach. 

 

Monday, January 15, 2024

FastAPI and LlamaIndex RAG: Creating Efficient APIs

FastAPI works great with LlamaIndex RAG. In this video, I show how to build a POST endpoint to execute inference requests for LlamaIndex. RAG implementation is done as part of Sparrow data extraction solution. I show how FastAPI can handle multiple concurrent requests to initiate RAG pipeline. I'm using Ollama to execute LLM calls as part of the pipeline. Ollama processes requests sequentially. It means Ollama will process API requests in the queue order. Hopefully, in the future, Ollama will support concurrent requests. 

 

Monday, January 8, 2024

Transforming Invoice Data into JSON: Local LLM with LlamaIndex & Pydantic

This is Sparrow, our open-source solution for document processing with local LLMs. I'm running local Starling LLM with Ollama. I explain how to get structured JSON output with LlamaIndex and dynamic Pydantic class. This helps to implement the use case of data extraction from invoice documents. The solution runs on the local machine, thanks to Ollama. I'm using a MacBook Air M1 with 8GB RAM.