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license: apache-2.0  
inference: false  
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# SLIM-NER

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**slim-ner** is part of the SLIM ("**S**tructured **L**anguage **I**nstruction **M**odel") model series, consisting of 1b parameter small, specialized decoder-based models, fine-tuned for function-calling.  

slim-ner has been fine-tuned for **named entity extraction** function calls, generating output consisting of a python dictionary corresponding to specified keys, e.g.:  

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;`{"people": ["..."], "organization":["..."], "location": ["..."]}`

SLIM models are designed to generate structured outputs that can be used programmatically as part of a multi-step, multi-model LLM-based automation workflow.  

SLIM models can be used 'out of the box' for rapid prototyping in most general purpose use cases, and are designed to serve as a solid base that can be easily fine-tuned and adapted for specialized production use cases.  

Each slim model has a 'quantized tool' version, e.g.,  [**'slim-ner-tool'**](https://huggingface.co/llmware/slim-ner-tool).  


## Prompt format:

`function = "classify"`  
`params = "people, organization, location"`  
`prompt = "<human> " + {text} + "\n" + `  
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;`"<{function}> " + {params} + "</{function}>" + "\n<bot>:"`  


<details>
<summary>Transformers Script </summary>

    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("llmware/slim-ner")
    tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("llmware/slim-ner")

    function = "classify"
    params = "people, organization, location"

    text = "Yesterday, in Redmond, Satya Nadella announced that Microsoft would be launching a new AI strategy."  
    
    prompt = "<human>: " + text + "\n" + f"<{function}> {params} </{function}>\n<bot>:"

    inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
    start_of_input = len(inputs.input_ids[0])

    outputs = model.generate(
        inputs.input_ids.to('cpu'),
        eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
        pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
        do_sample=True,
        temperature=0.3,
        max_new_tokens=100
    )

    output_only = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][start_of_input:], skip_special_tokens=True)

    print("output only: ", output_only)  

    # here's the fun part
    try:
        output_only = ast.literal_eval(llm_string_output)
        print("success - converted to python dictionary automatically")
    except:
        print("fail - could not convert to python dictionary automatically - ", llm_string_output)
   
   </details>  
 
<details>  



    
<summary>Using as Function Call in LLMWare</summary>

    from llmware.models import ModelCatalog
    slim_model = ModelCatalog().load_model("llmware/slim-ner")
    response = slim_model.function_call(text,params=["people","organization","location"], function="classify")

    print("llmware - llm_response: ", response)

</details>  

    
## Model Card Contact

Darren Oberst & llmware team  

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