## DSPy: _Programming_—not prompting—Foundation Models **Documentation:** [DSPy Docs](https://dspy.ai/) [](https://pepy.tech/project/dspy-ai) [](https://pepy.tech/project/dspy-ai) ---- DSPy is the open-source framework for _programming—rather than prompting—language models_. It allows you to iterate fast on **building modular AI systems** and provides algorithms for **optimizing their prompts and weights**, whether you're building simple classifiers, sophisticated RAG pipelines, or Agent loops. DSPy stands for Declarative Self-improving Python. Instead of brittle prompts, you write compositional _Python code_ and use DSPy's tools to **teach your LM to deliver high-quality outputs**. This [lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMYuzrKLUw) is a good conceptual introduction. Meet the community, seek help, or start contributing via our GitHub repo here and our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/XCGy2WDCQB). ## Documentation: [dspy.ai](https://dspy.ai) **Please go to the [DSPy Docs at dspy.ai](https://dspy.ai)** ## Installation ```bash pip install dspy ``` To install the very latest from `main`: ```bash pip install git+https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy.git ```` ## 📜 Citation & Reading More **[Jun'24] [Optimizing Instructions and Demonstrations for Multi-Stage Language Model Programs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11695)** **[Oct'23] [DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03714)** [Jul'24] [Fine-Tuning and Prompt Optimization: Two Great Steps that Work Better Together](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10930) [Jun'24] [Prompts as Auto-Optimized Training Hyperparameters](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11706) [Feb'24] [Assisting in Writing Wikipedia-like Articles From Scratch with Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14207) [Jan'24] [In-Context Learning for Extreme Multi-Label Classification](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12178) [Dec'23] [DSPy Assertions: Computational Constraints for Self-Refining Language Model Pipelines](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13382) [Dec'22] [Demonstrate-Search-Predict: Composing Retrieval & Language Models for Knowledge-Intensive NLP](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14024.pdf) To stay up to date or learn more, follow [@lateinteraction](https://twitter.com/lateinteraction) on Twitter. The **DSPy** logo is designed by **Chuyi Zhang**. If you use DSPy or DSP in a research paper, please cite our work as follows: ``` @inproceedings{khattab2024dspy, title={DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines}, author={Khattab, Omar and Singhvi, Arnav and Maheshwari, Paridhi and Zhang, Zhiyuan and Santhanam, Keshav and Vardhamanan, Sri and Haq, Saiful and Sharma, Ashutosh and Joshi, Thomas T. and Moazam, Hanna and Miller, Heather and Zaharia, Matei and Potts, Christopher}, journal={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations}, year={2024} } @article{khattab2022demonstrate, title={Demonstrate-Search-Predict: Composing Retrieval and Language Models for Knowledge-Intensive {NLP}}, author={Khattab, Omar and Santhanam, Keshav and Li, Xiang Lisa and Hall, David and Liang, Percy and Potts, Christopher and Zaharia, Matei}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.14024}, year={2022} } ```