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Get exact structure out of any language models with regular expressions.

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ReLLM

Regular Expressions for Language Model Completions.

Get exact structure out of any language model completion with regular expressions.

Return specific syntactic structure (e.g. JSON or XML), or specific semantic structure (e.g. a date or a number), or even complete templates (e.g. a sentence with a blank to fill in).

How does it work? For each token, ReLLM tests every possible completion against a partial regex. For the potential completions that do not match the pattern, ReLLM masks the logits so that the language model does not generate them.

Installation

pip install rellm

The preliminary results are interesting -- even for small models, constraining the token space with ReLLM can improve the quality of the completions. Not to mention the ability to more easily parse the output programmatically. Take a look at some of the examples below (you can run them with example.py)

Examples using GPT2 (124 million parameters)

Prompt: Return the first three letters of the alphabet in a json array:

Pattern ["[a-z]", "[a-z]", "[a-z]"]

ReLLM: ["a", "b", "c"]

Without ReLLM: { "index": 0, "id":"1", "description":"", "text": "[{ "id": 0, "name":

Prompt: Fill in the sentence with an interesting story about the dentist:

Pattern: Today I'm going to the [a-z]+ to [a-z]+ because ([a-z]+ )*.

ReLLM: Today I'm going to the dentist to see because it is a very important day for me

Without ReLLM: 'My family bought me an appointment with a dentist when I was 15. The dentist gave me one a year and then I was told on

Prompt: Is this a good demo?

Pattern: (Yes|No)

ReLLM: No.

Without ReLLM: I don't know, but this is amazing! Even more amazing is how the design can take place on a small stage that uses LEDs. As

Prompt: Convert the date May 4, 2023 to the format mm/dd/yyyy:

Pattern: [0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{4}

ReLLM: 00/00/0045

Without ReLLM: mm:ss

A-Z, Z-A, W-H (0-9:9:19)

Z-R

Prompt: Jeff Dean is a

Pattern (Programmer|Computer Scientist|AGI)

ReLLM: Computer Scientist

Without ReLLM: former national basketball champion and a former professional basketball player. He currently serves as general counsel for the NCAA Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

Prompt: I can eat

Pattern: [0-9]{1,10} [a-z]* of [a-z]*

ReLLM: 800 calories of coffee

Without ReLLM: iced coffee here on the west side and do this, so can you?"

"Why, I don't understand. What did you mean by

Prompt: ReLLM, the best way to get structured data out of LLMs, is an acronym for

Patern: Re[a-z]* L[a-z]* L[a-z]* M[a-z]*

ReLLM: Realized Logistic Logistics Model

Without ReLLM: Largest Largest Address Space (MELSP), which has its roots in the Internet network, at least when compared

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