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guidance

A guidance language for controlling large language models.

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Guidance is a programming paradigm for steering LLMs that interleaves control flow with generation, with constrained decoding and rich templating.

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A guidance language for controlling large language models.

guidance has 21.7k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 1.2k times. guidance is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook. It has been in active development since 2022. guidance is available under the MIT license.

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What is guidance?

A guidance language for controlling large language models.

Is guidance open source?

guidance is an open-source project. It is released under the MIT license.

Is guidance free?

Yes. guidance is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does guidance use?

guidance is available under the MIT license.

What language is guidance written in?

guidance is written mainly in Jupyter Notebook.

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