What is guidance?
It is a programming paradigm that offers superior control and efficiency compared to conventional prompting and chaining. It allows users to constrain generation (e.g. with regex and CFGs) as well as to interleave control (conditional, loops) and generation seamlessly.
guidance is a tool in the Text & Language Models category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Pure, beautiful python with additional LM functionalityRich templates with f-stringsConstrained generation with selects, regular expressions, and context-free grammarsStateful control + generation makes it easy to interleave prompting / logic / generation
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guidance Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to guidance?
LangChain
It is a framework built around LLMs. It can be used for chatbots, generative question-answering, summarization, and much more. The core idea of the library is that we can “chain” together different components to create more advanced use cases around LLMs.
Vercel AI SDK
It is an open-source library designed to help developers build conversational streaming user interfaces in JavaScript and TypeScript. The SDK supports React/Next.js, Svelte/SvelteKit, and Vue/Nuxt as well as Node.js, Serverless, and the Edge Runtime.
Hugging Face
Build, train, and deploy state of the art models powered by the reference open source in machine learning.
