A simple (and incomplete) collection of content I have created and shared over time. Mostly about NLP, LLMs, Information Retrieval, and Vector Search.
| Title | ≈ Date | type |
|---|---|---|
| 🔮 Decoding strategies and the future of Language Models | 2024-11-12 | post |
| 👩🏫 Banks (Python library): a Swiss Army Knife for prompting | 2024-10-31 | post |
| 🇮🇹🇯🇵🇧🇷 Generating multilingual instruction datasets with Magpie 🐦⬛ | 2024-10-21 | article + notebook |
| Create a 📰 Newsletter Agent with Haystack Tools 🛠️ | 2024-10-17 | notebook + video |
| 🧰 From my toolbox: 💬 Chat Template Viewer | 2024-10-07 | post |
| 🕵🏻 Agentic RAG with 🦙 Llama 3.2 3B | 2024-09-26 | post + notebook |
| 🎯 Selective fine-tuning of Language Models with Spectrum + TRL | 2024-09-03 | tutorial |
| 💬🇮🇹 Phi 3.5 mini ITA: my Italian Small Language Model | 2024-08-29 | post + model + demo |
| 📝 Fine-tuning LLMs: what I've learned | 2024-08-26 | post |
| 🗂️⛏️ Structured data extraction with Small Language Models | 2024-08-02 | post + notebook |
| 🌉 Introduction to mechanistic interpretability of LLMs | 2024-08-01 | post |
| 🔎 BM42: a new ranking algorithm for hybrid RAG | 2024-07-05 | post + notebook |
| 🎤 yo-Llama 🦙: altering the behavior of a LLM by amplifying a feature direction in the activation space | 2024-07-01 | post + model + notebook |
| 🌌 Creating adventures with local LLMs: llamafile + Character Codex | 2024-06-24 | post + notebook |
| RAG Evaluation with 🔥 Prometheus 2 | 2024-06-17 | blog post + notebook |
| ⚙️ Prompt Optimization with Haystack + DSPy | 2024-06-05 | post + notebook |
| LLaMantino 3: a good 🇮🇹 Italian Language Model | 2024-05-20 | post |
| 🧑🏫 AutoQuizzer: create a quiz from a URL and play/let the LLM play | 2024-05-16 | post + demo |
| 🐍 PyCon Italy 2024 - LLM/NLP compilation | 2024-05-10 | post |
| 🔎 Sparse Embedding Retrieval in Haystack | 2024-04-29 | post + notebook |
| Playing with 🦙 Llama 3 (RAG about Oscar night 🎬) | 2024-04-19 | post + notebook |
| 🦙📱 Running Small Language Models on a cheap smartphone | 2024-04-09 | post |
| 💎 gemma-2b-orpo-GGUF. Thoughts on quantization. | 2024-04-08 | post + model |
| 💎 gemma-2b-orpo: a Small Language Model trained with ORPO | 2024-03-26 | post + model + notebooks |
| 🧪📑 From raw text to structured data with LLMs and function calling | 2024-03-20 | post + notebook |
| 🧭 Choosing an embedding inference solution | 2024-03-10 | post |
| LLMs 4 Devs: from 0 to your 1st LLM application @ Open Source Day | 2024-03-08 | talk + repository |
| Haystack - an open framework for LLM applications: 🎙️ interview @ Intervista Pythonista with Massimiliano Pippi, in Italian 🇮🇹 | 2024-03-01 | podcast |
| Zero-day experiments with Google Gemma 💎 | 2024-02-21 | post + notebook |
| 🗺️🧭 What's the best LLM inference solution for me? | 2024-02-20 | post |
| 🧩🧩 Merging Language Models: what I learned | 2024-02-05 | post |
| Can Language Models self-improve? 🏋️📈 - Self-Rewarding Language Models paper | 2024-01-22 | post |
| 🦙 Ollama - Haystack integration | 2024-01-09 | post |
| 🦙 Ollama - beyond the surface (unpolished notes) 📝 | 2024-01-05 | post |
| 🇮🇹🇬🇧 Multilingual RAG from a 🎧 podcast | 2024-01-03 | post + notebook |
| 🧪🦍 Information Extraction with open LLMs and Function Calling | 2023-12-21 | post + notebook |
| LLM, Haystack and open-source: 🎙️ interview @ Pointer Podcast with Sara Zanzottera, in Italian 🇮🇹 | 2023-12-15 | podcast |
| 📌 Collection of notebooks: using Mistral models with the Haystack LLM framework | 2023-12-14 | post + repository |
| ⛵ Navigating the LLM frameworks landscape: a comprehensive survey | 2023-11-22 | post |
| ⚗️ How to distill the capabilities of GPT-4 into smaller models? (Zephyr report) | 2023-11-13 | post |
| Using 🪁 Zephyr models + Haystack to generate answers on your data | 2023-11-06 | article + notebook |
| 🔍 Improve RAG by embedding metadata 🏷️ - pt. 2 | 2023-10-25 | post + notebook |
| 🔍 Improve RAG by embedding metadata 🏷️ - pt. 1 | 2023-10-23 | post + notebook |
| Zephyr 7B Alpha: how I sharded a Large Language Model | 2023-10-16 | post |
| Loading unstructured data into your LLM application (unstructured.io + Haystack) | 2023-10-02 | post |
| Mistral + Haystack: how I built a 🎸 Rock RAG pipeline | 2023-09-29 | post + notebook |
| ⚡ vLLM: how this fast LLM serving engine works (PagedAttention) | 2023-09-26 | post |
| Strategic Passage Ranking for RAG: how to overcome the Lost in the Middle problem | 2023-08-14 | post |
| 🚀 Load LLMs in Colab 💻 using quantization | 2023-07-31 | post |
| Chat with your documents using Haystack | 2023-07-31 | post |
| Llama2 🦙 on Haystack | 2023-07-20 | post + notebook |
| Hatch: the Python 🐍 project manager | 2023-07-12 | post |
| What would mother 👩 say? (by Tuana Çelik): an agent for generating tweets | 2023-07-07 | post |
| Fact checking rocks 🎸: how to build a fact-checking system @ Berlin Buzzwords | 2023-06-20 | talk + repository |
| 💊 Open-source Neural Search/LLM frameworks: an overview | 2023-05-09 | post |
| Experimenting with Haystack Agents 🕵️ | 2023-04-05 | post + notebook |
| 💊 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) | 2023-03-14 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Extractive Question Answering Evaluation | 2023-03-13 | knowledge pill |
| Celebrating open source 🥳 | 2023-02-28 | post |
| New Question Answering model for the 🇮🇹 Italian language! | 2023-02-07 | post |
| 💊 Machine Reading Models (= Readers) | 2023-02-05 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Combining document retrieval and machine comprehension for Question Answering | 2023-03-02 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 What is Question Answering? | 2023-01-17 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Retrieval Evaluation | 2023-01-06 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Retrieve and Re-Rank | 2022-12-17 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 SentenceTransformers for Dense Retrieval | 2022-12-04 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Dense Passage Retrieval | 2022-12-03 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 From sparse representations to Language Models | 2022-11-26 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Sparse retrieval: Bag-of-words, TF-IDF | 2022-11-24 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 Sparse retrieval: BM25 | 2022-11-24 | knowledge pill |
| 💊 What is Neural Search? | 2022-11-20 | knowledge pill |
| Reduce fastText models size | 2022-08-23 | post |
| Who killed Laura Palmer? How to implement a question answering system, based on a TV series wiki @ PyCon Italia 2022 | 2022-06-03 | talk + repository |
| Monkey patching in Python | 2021-11-29 | post |
| Fine-tuning transformers easily with Ludwig | 2021-10-25 | post |
| Non-invasive Python profiling with py-spy | 2021-05-23 | post |
| Compare sentences with a list of fixed words, using fastText word embeddings | 2021-05-03 | post |
| Text and metadata extraction from files with Apache Tika | 2021-04-09 | post |
| Table extraction from PDF with Camelot | 2021-03-26 | post |
| Simple Docker healthcheck | 2021-03-19 | post |
| How to detect political memes? A multimodal approach | 2020-12-17 | post |