Kalosm

Kalosm is an ecosystem of crates that make it easy to develop applications that use local or remote AI models. There are try main projects in this repo:

• Kalosm: A simple interface for pre-trained models in rust
• Fusor: A runtime for quantized ML inference. Fusor uses WGPU to run models on any accelerator natively or in the browser

Kalosm

Kalosm is a simple interface for pre-trained models in Rust. It makes it easy to interact with pre-trained, language, audio, and image models.

Model Support

Kalosm supports a variety of models. Here is a list of the models that are currently supported:

Model	Modality	Size	Description	Quantized	CUDA + Metal Accelerated	Example
Llama	Text	1b-70b	General purpose language model	✅	✅	llama 3 chat
Mistral	Text	7-13b	General purpose language model	✅	✅	mistral chat
Phi	Text	2b-4b	Small reasoning focused language model	✅	✅	phi 3 chat
Whisper	Audio	20MB-1GB	Audio transcription model	✅	✅	live whisper transcription
RWuerstchen	Image	5gb	Image generation model	❌	✅	rwuerstchen image generation
TrOcr	Image	3gb	Optical character recognition model	❌	✅	Text Recognition
Segment Anything	Image	50MB-400MB	Image segmentation model	❌	❌	Image Segmentation
Bert	Text	100MB-1GB	Text embedding model	❌	✅	Semantic Search

Utilities

Kalosm also supports a variety of utilities around pre-trained models. These include:

• Extracting, formatting and retrieving context for LLMs: Extract context from txt/html/docx/md/pdf chunk that context then search for relevant context with vector database integrations
• Transcribing audio from your microphone or file
• Crawling and scraping content from web pages

Performance

Kalosm uses the candle machine learning library to run models in pure rust. It supports quantized and accelerated models with performance on par with llama.cpp:

Mistral 7b

Accelerator	Kalosm	llama.cpp
Metal (M2)	39 t/s	27 t/s

Structured Generation

Kalosm supports structured generation with arbitrary parsers. It uses a custom parser engine and sampler and structure-aware acceleration to make structure generation even faster than uncontrolled text generation. You can take any rust type and add #[derive(Parse, Schema)] to make it usable with structured generation:

use kalosm::language::*;

/// A fictional character
#[derive(Parse, Schema, Clone, Debug)]
struct Character {
    /// The name of the character
    #[parse(pattern = "[A-Z][a-z]{2,10} [A-Z][a-z]{2,10}")]
    name: String,
    /// The age of the character
    #[parse(range = 1..=100)]
    age: u8,
    /// A description of the character
    #[parse(pattern = "[A-Za-z ]{40,200}")]
    description: String,
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // First create a model. Chat models tend to work best with structured generation
    let model = Llama::phi_3().await.unwrap();
    // Then create a task with the parser as constraints
    let task = model.task("You generate realistic JSON placeholders for characters")
        .typed();
    // Finally, run the task
    let mut stream = task(&"Create a list of random characters", &model);
    stream.to_std_out().await.unwrap();
    let characters: [Character; 10] = stream.await.unwrap();
    println!("{characters:?}");
}

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In addition to regex, you can provide your own grammar to generate structured data. This lets you constrain the response to any structure you want including complex data structures like JSON, HTML, and XML.

Kalosm Quickstart!

This quickstart will get you up and running with a simple chatbot. Let's get started!

A more complete guide for Kalosm is available on the Kalosm website, and examples are available in the examples folder.

1. Install rust
2. Create a new project:

cargo new kalosm-hello-world
cd ./kalosm-hello-world

3. Add Kalosm as a dependency

# You can use `--features language,metal`, `--features language,cuda`, or `--features language,mkl` if your machine supports an accelerator
cargo add kalosm --features language
cargo add tokio --features full

4. Add this code to your main.rs file

use kalosm::language::*;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
  let model = Llama::phi_3().await?;
  let mut chat = model.chat()
    .with_system_prompt("You are a pirate called Blackbeard");

  loop {
    chat(&prompt_input("\n> ")?)
      .to_std_out()
      .await?;
  }
}

5. Run your application with:

cargo run --release

chat bot demo

Fusor

⚠️ Fusor is still early in development and is not ready for production use. Fusor will serve as the backend for Kalosm in the 0.5 release to enable web and AMD support

Fusor is a WGPU runtime for quantized ML inference. Fusor works with the gguf file format to load quantized models. It targets uses WebGpu to target many different accelerators including Nvidia GPUs, AMD GPUs, and Metal. Most ML frameworks contain hand optimized kernels that perform a series of operations together. Fusor uses a kernel fusion compiler to make merge custom operation chains into an optimized kernel without dropping down to the shader code. This compiles to a single kernel:

fn exp_add_one(tensor: Tensor<2, f32>) -> Tensor<2, f32> {
  1. + (-tensor).exp()
}

Community

If you are interested in either project, you can join the discord to discuss the project and get help.

Contributing

• Report issues on our issue tracker.
• Help other users in the discord
• If you are interested in contributing, feel free to reach out on discord