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# SLIM-SA-NER-3B-TOOL

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**slim-sa-ner-3b-tool** is a 4_K_M quantized GGUF version of slim-sa-ner-3b, providing a small, fast inference implementation, optimized for multi-model concurrent deployment.  

This model combines two of the most popular traditional classifier capabilities (**sentiment analysis** and **named entity recognition**) and re-images them as function calls on a small specialized decoder LLM, generating output in the form of a python dictionary with keys corresponding to sentiment and NER identifiers.  

The intent of SLIMs is to forge a middle-ground between traditional encoder-based classifiers and open-ended API-based LLMs.

The size of the self-contained GGUF model binary is 1.71 GB, which is small enough to run locally on a CPU, and yet which comparables favorably with the use of two traditional FP32 versions of Roberta-Large for NER (1.42GB) and BERT for Sentiment Analysis (440 MB), while offering greater potential capacity depth with 2.7B parameters, and without the requirement of Pytorch and other external dependencies. 


[**slim-sa-ner-3b**](https://huggingface.co/llmware/slim-sa-ner-3b) is part of the SLIM ("**S**tructured **L**anguage **I**nstruction **M**odel") series, providing a set of small, specialized decoder-based LLMs, fine-tuned for function-calling.

To pull the model via API:  

    from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download           
    snapshot_download("llmware/slim-sa-ner-3b-tool", local_dir="/path/on/your/machine/", local_dir_use_symlinks=False)  
    

Load in your favorite GGUF inference engine, or try with llmware as follows:

    from llmware.models import ModelCatalog  
    
    # to load the model and make a basic inference
    model = ModelCatalog().load_model("slim-sa-ner-3b-tool")
    response = model.function_call(text_sample)  

    # this one line will download the model and run a series of tests
    ModelCatalog().tool_test_run("slim-sa-ner-3b-tool", verbose=True)  


Note: please review [**config.json**](https://huggingface.co/llmware/slim-sa-ner-3b-tool/blob/main/config.json) in the repository for prompt wrapping information, details on the model, and full test set.  


## Model Card Contact

Darren Oberst & llmware team  

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