August 18th, 2024

Show HN: AdalFlow: The library to build and auto-optimize any LLM task pipeline

AdalFlow is an open-source library for building applications with large language models, featuring a modular task pipeline, auto-optimization, easy installation via pip, and comprehensive documentation, promoting women in AI.

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Show HN: AdalFlow: The library to build and auto-optimize any LLM task pipeline

AdalFlow is a library designed for building and optimizing applications that utilize large language models (LLMs). It enables developers to create a variety of applications, including chatbots, translation tools, and code generation systems. The library emphasizes customizability and minimal abstraction, akin to PyTorch, allowing developers to maintain control over their task pipelines. Key features include a modular task pipeline with base classes for components and data interaction, as well as a unified framework for auto-optimizing prompts and task instructions. This framework facilitates easy diagnosis, visualization, debugging, and training of pipelines. Installation is straightforward via pip, and comprehensive documentation is available online, covering installation, tutorials, API references, and supported models. AdalFlow is open-source under the MIT License and has an active community on Discord for support and discussions. The library is named after Ada Lovelace, aiming to inspire more women to pursue careers in AI.

- AdalFlow is a library for building applications using large language models.

- It features a modular task pipeline and auto-optimization capabilities.

- Installation can be done easily using pip.

- Comprehensive documentation is available for users.

- The library aims to encourage women in the AI field, honoring Ada Lovelace.

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By @luke-stanley - 6 months
This sounds quite cool, and I am very picky but this seems quite clean. It wasn't clear if this was for fine-tuning or not, the general explanation could perhaps be clearer, the first few sentences of the README still don't make it very clear (I can sort of guess, having seen DSPy, AutoPrompt etc). It would be awesome if this DID also explore if it needed to do: prompt tuning, fine-tuning, or soft-prompt tuning etc, I am on the lookout for a tool that does this. Obviously a general open source Q* like solution would be amazing but I get that might be a bit of a different beast! Part of my issue is that there are so many things that can be tweaked and I often don't know the most time and cost efficient thing to optimise. I get that prompt tuning is often going to be the best thing to do, especially first. But for efficient inference, shorter prompts may well be needed. Though maybe clever model key-value caching is starting to make this less of an issue, but it's still faster to have as short as prompts as possible, still, fine tuning or even resuming pretraining may be the best thing to do sometimes. BTW I would strip `gpt-3.5-turbo` from all examples, as it's more expensive than the better 4o-mini. I hope to check this out more later. Nice work!
By @meame2010 - 6 months
LLM applications are messy, but AdalFlow has made it elegant!

0.2.0 release highlight a unified auto-differentiative framework where you can perform both instruction and few-shot optimization. Along with our own research, “Learn-to-Reason Few-shot In-context Learning” and “Text-Grad 2.0”, AdalFlow optimizer converge faster, more token efficient, and with better accuracy than optimization-focused frameworks like Dspy and text-grad.

By @meame2010 - 6 months
AdalFlow is named in honor of Ada Lovelace, the pioneering female mathematician who first recognized that machines could do more than just calculations. As a female-led team, we aim to inspire more women to enter the AI field.
By @piyushtechsavy - 6 months
So it this something like an alternative to Langchain? Can this be used
By @android521 - 6 months
It would be great if there are typescript equivalent libraries like this