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Guidance

An open-source Python library for controlling and constraining large language model outputs using structured prompts, grammars, templates, and programmatic generation, enabling more reliable and deterministic AI applications.

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Outlines

A Python library for guiding language models to generate structured text that follows specified formats, schemas, or constraints.

Jsonformer

An open-source Python library for constrained text generation that enables large language models to produce JSON outputs conforming to a predefined JSON Schema by generating only the content tokens while enforcing the required structure.

Prompt Template

A reusable prompt structure containing fixed instructions and variable placeholders for generating consistent inputs to an AI model.

Transformers

An open-source Python library by Hugging Face providing pre-trained state-of-the-art transformer models.

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