ncompass 0.0.6.post2

An API built to enable one-line-of-code access to accelerated open-source and custom AI models.

ncompass

A One-Line-Of-Code (OLOC) API that makes it easy for anyone to access low-latency open-source or custom AI models. This repo has some examples of the various ways in which you can use our API.

Installing

You can install our package via pip with the following command:

pip install ncompass

Getting your API Key

We're working on automating the process for you to select a model of your choice and getting an API key, but for now please email either [e-mail] or [e-mail] to be onboarded and provided with your API key. Thanks!

One-Line-Of-Code (OLOC)

We strive to make sure that all our capabilities can be exposed to you with as close to one line of code as possible. Below is an example of how you would do that with us for streaming prompt complettion. The following lines of code and other examples like it can be found in the examples/hello_world.py file.

from ncompass.client import nCompassOLOC

prompt = 'Give me 5 tools I can use to accelerate inference of my ML model?'
api_key = '<api_key>'
nCompassOLOC().start_session(api_key)
for i in range(3):
    nCompassOLOC().complete_prompt(api_key, prompt, max_tokens = 300, temperature = 0.5
                                   , top_p = 0.9, stream = True, pprint = True)
nCompassOLOC().stop_session(api_key)

The section below unwraps the code a bit more. It is still simple, but not quite OLOC.

More fine grained control

The following code (also found in examples/fine_grained_control.py) is an example of using the nCompass client with more fine grained control. For instance:

• you could replace client.wait_until_model_running() with the non-blocking version client.model_is_running() which just returns a boolean.
• use a custom way to iterate through the response by replacing client.print_prompt. The examples/hello_world.py file has an example (use_streaming_iterator) of extracting the iterator from our OLOC version as well

from ncompass.client import nCompass

# The client will automatically read the API key from the environment variable passed here.
# Alternatively, you can directly pass the api_key to the client (see README.md)
client = nCompass(custom_env_var = 'NCOMPASS_API_KEY')
client.start_session()
client.wait_until_model_running()
params = {'max_tokens':    300 # max output tokens requested
          , 'temperature': 0.5
          , 'top_p':       0.9
          , 'stream':      True}
prompt = 'Give me 5 tools I can use to accelerate inference of my ML model?'
response_iterator = client.complete_prompt(prompt, **params)
client.print_prompt(response_iterator)
client.stop_session()

Note that here we read the API key from a custom environment variable NCOMPASS_API_KEY which you can set with the token we provide you. However, the API also works if you directly provide the API key to the client directly as below.

client = nCompass(api_key = '<key we provide you>')

IMPORTANT: What are sessions?

Sessions are how nCompass keeps track of usage statistics. nCompass billing is not per_token but rather time_based. This means, your costs do not scale linearly with your inputs. We simply charge you for the time between calls to start and stop session.

There are two ways to start and stop sessions:

• Using the command line: When you install the library via pip, you will have 3 command line calls available to you.

  • nccli-help : prints a help msg on how to use the cli commands
  • nccli-start-session <api_key> : starts a session for that api_key
  • nccli-stop-session <api_key> : stops a session for that api_key

• Programatically: In all the examples above, the start_session and stop_session calls perform the tasks of starting and stopping sessions.

Please do not forget to stop sessions you have started as billing occurs between the start and stop of a session.