Would it be open to migrate to other search engine or LLMs?

[SLAPaper]

I'd like to implement a internal conversational search with custom search engine and LLMs, would it be easy to do so? (i.e. is there a plugable interface/plugin system?) Or is it strongly coupling with Bing search and lepton LLM?

[Yangqing]

Yep, it's possible.

For the search engine part, check out e.g. the search_with_bing() function, and the photon's init() function. We currently support bing, google and https://serper.dev/. It's probably easy to swap in your own search engine.

For the LLM model, you can replace the openai client to connect to other openai-compatible servers. The related question part requires a bit care, as your llm server need to support function calling / structured output. All lepton LLM endpoints support this (with custom models too) out of the box. With others, you might need a bit of adjustment, and you can also choose to simply turn off related questions.

[georgefeng]

I have successfully deployed on lepton.ai, and its lightning-fast response has left a deep impression on me : )

For local deployment, I guess we need to modify the following two parts, right?

https://github.com/leptonai/search_with_lepton/blob/a6ac6da2b3505111b86680aa886948579e24d687/search_with_lepton.py#L256-L260

https://github.com/leptonai/search_with_lepton/blob/a6ac6da2b3505111b86680aa886948579e24d687/search_with_lepton.py#L215

For online deployment, is it not possible to switch to other non-Lepton Hosted models (even those I deployed on Lepton)?"

LLM_MODEL: the LLM model to run. We recommend using mixtral-8x7b, but if you want to experiment other models, you can try the ones hosted on LeptonAI, for example, llama2-70b, llama2-13b, llama2-7b. Note that small models won't work that well.

https://dashboard.lepton.ai/workspace/olcdfyso/explore/detail/search-by-lepton

[Yangqing]

For local deployment, you just need to do (in commandline):

pip install -U leptonai
lep login

and make sure you log in to your workspace.

For the other non-Lepton hosted models, see above - essentially it is this line

https://github.com/leptonai/search_with_lepton/blob/db27467/search_with_lepton.py#L257

You might want to start with environmental variable RELATED_QUESTIONS=False with other api endpoints.