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Hands-On Large Language Models
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book
Hands-On-Large-Language-Models is the official GitHub code repository accompanying the practical technical book Hands-On Large Language Models authored by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, providing a comprehensive collection of example notebooks, code labs, and supporting materials that illustrate the core concepts and real-world applications of large language models. The repository is structured into chapters that align with the educational progression of the book — covering everything from foundational topics like tokens, embeddings, and transformer architecture to advanced techniques such as prompt engineering, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal LLMs, and fine-tuning. Each chapter contains executable Jupyter notebooks that are designed to be run in environments like Google Colab, making it easy for learners to experiment interactively with models, visualize attention patterns, implement classification and generation tasks. -
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LibrePhotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service
LibrePhotos is an open-source self-hosted photo management platform designed to organize, browse, and analyze personal media libraries while preserving user privacy. The system allows individuals to store and manage their photos and videos locally rather than relying on commercial cloud services. It provides features similar to services like Google Photos but runs on a private server controlled by the user. The application includes AI-powered tools that automatically analyze images to detect faces, objects, and locations, allowing photos to be grouped and searched more efficiently. LibrePhotos supports a wide variety of media formats and provides a web interface that can be accessed from different devices and operating systems. The platform is built using a Django backend and a React frontend, forming a full-stack web application architecture. -
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Open Semantic Search
Open source semantic search and text analytics for large document sets
Open Semantic Search is an open source research and analytics platform designed for searching, analyzing, and exploring large collections of documents using semantic search technologies. It provides an integrated search server combined with a document processing pipeline that supports crawling, text extraction, and automated analysis of content from many different sources. Open Semantic Search includes an ETL framework that can ingest documents, process them through analysis steps, and enrich the data with extracted information such as named entities and metadata. It also supports optical character recognition to extract text from images and scanned documents, including images embedded inside PDF files. It integrates text mining and analytics capabilities that allow users to examine relationships, topics, and structured data within document collections. -
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KnowNote
A local-first AI knowledge base & NotebookLM alternative
KnowNote is a local-first, open-source AI knowledge base and notebook application created as an Electron-based alternative to Google NotebookLM that emphasizes privacy, control, and simplicity. It lets users build an intelligent, searchable knowledge base from uploaded documents such as PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, and web pages, and then interact with that content using LLM-powered chat, summarization, and reasoning tools. Unlike many NotebookLM alternatives that rely on Docker or cloud deployments, KnowNote runs natively on desktop platforms without complex setup, meaning all data stays local unless the user opts to integrate with self-managed or private LLM APIs. Its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system offers semantic search and traceable source references, and it supports multiple LLM providers through a flexible plugin-style provider architecture. -
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Vedana
Open source multi-agent RAG over a knowledge graph
Vedana is an open-source multi-agent RAG system built around a typed knowledge graph. It is designed for questions that require structure, completeness, and traceability instead of simple text similarity. The system lets agents navigate data step by step through Cypher queries, vector search, document lookup, and source verification. Its architecture combines a knowledge graph, pgvector-based embeddings, incremental ETL, and a backoffice interface for chat, metrics, prompt tuning, and data loading. It also includes JIMS, a framework for persistent conversational agents with typed events and pluggable pipelines. Overall, Vedana is useful for teams that need reliable answers from real data, especially when relationships, counts, rules, and source-backed reasoning matter. -
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Zvec
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
Zvec is an open-source, lightweight, in-process vector database designed to embed directly into applications and serve fast similarity search workloads without the overhead of a separate server process. Developed by Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab, it positions itself as the “SQLite of vector databases” by being easy to integrate, minimal in dependencies, and capable of handling high throughput with low latency on edge devices or small systems. Zvec excels at approximate nearest neighbor search and retrieval tasks that power features like semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) setups. Its performance benchmarks show it achieving high queries-per-second and fast index build times compared to similar tools. Because it runs in-process, developers can embed it in native apps, microservices, or edge computing scenarios where traditional server-based vector databases might be overkill. -
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Semantra
Multi-tool for semantic search
Semantra is an open-source semantic search tool designed to help users explore large collections of documents by meaning rather than simple keyword matching. The software analyzes text and PDF documents stored locally and creates embeddings that allow queries to retrieve results based on conceptual similarity. It is primarily intended for individuals who need to extract insights from large document collections, including researchers, journalists, students, and historians. The system runs from the command line and automatically launches a local web interface where users can perform interactive searches and examine document passages related to a query. By relying on semantic embeddings and contextual analysis, the tool can identify passages that are relevant even when the query uses different wording than the source documents. -
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SemTools
Semantic search and document parsing tools for the command line
SemTools is an open-source command-line toolkit designed for document parsing, semantic indexing, and semantic search workflows. The project focuses on enabling developers and AI agents to process large document collections and extract meaningful semantic representations that can be searched efficiently. Built with Rust for performance and reliability, the toolchain provides fast processing of text and structured documents while maintaining low system overhead. SemTools can parse documents, build semantic embeddings, and perform similarity searches across datasets, making it useful for research, knowledge management, and AI-assisted coding workflows. The toolkit is designed to work well with modern AI pipelines, particularly those involving large language models that require structured knowledge retrieval. -
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ModernBERT
Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling
ModernBERT is an open-source research project that modernizes the classic BERT encoder architecture by incorporating recent advances in transformer design, training techniques, and efficiency improvements. The goal of the project is to bring BERT-style models up to date with the capabilities of modern large language models while preserving the strengths of bidirectional encoder architectures used for tasks such as classification, retrieval, and semantic search. ModernBERT introduces architectural improvements that enhance both training efficiency and inference performance, making the model more suitable for modern large-scale machine learning pipelines. The repository also includes FlexBERT, a modular framework that allows developers to experiment with different encoder building blocks and configurations when constructing new models. -
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QMD
mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, etc.
QMD is a powerful and lightweight command-line tool that acts as an on-device search engine for your personal knowledge base, allowing you to index and search files like Markdown notes, meeting transcripts, technical documentation, and other text collections without depending on cloud services. Designed to keep all search activity local, it combines classic full-text search techniques with modern semantic features such as vector similarity and hybrid ranking so that queries return not just literal matches but conceptually relevant results. Users can organize content into named collections, embed documents for semantic retrieval, and then perform keyword searches, semantic searches, or hybrid natural-language queries to quickly surface the most useful information across all indexed sources. Because the entire system runs on the user’s machine, privacy is preserved and there’s no risk of exposing sensitive content to outside providers. -
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Supermemory
Memory engine and app that is extremely fast, scalable
Supermemory is an ambitious and extensible AI-powered personal knowledge management system that aims to help users capture, organize, retrieve, and reason over information in a manner that mimics human memory structures. The platform allows individuals to ingest text, documents, and other content forms, then uses advanced retrieval and embedding techniques to index and relate information intelligently so that users can recall relevant knowledge in context rather than just by keyword match. It often incorporates clustering, semantic search, and summarization modules to reduce cognitive load and surface key ideas, which makes it useful for research, study, writing, and long-term project tracking. Users can interact with the system via conversational queries or traditional search interfaces, and the system leverages vector embeddings and memory scoring to prioritize the most relevant results. -
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A SOA framework for web content classification, clustering and automated interlinking of terms between documents. Will provide an expandable set of services such as semantic search, ranking, retrieval and classification of large scale web resources.
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Catalogo is a system for cataloguing resources on a web site. It allows semantic search of information on an intranet using metadata, RDF and ontology concepts. It provides a Catalog server (Java web applications) and a Catalog client (Firefox plug-in).
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ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin
The ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin lets you easily find personal documents
The chatgpt-retrieval-plugin repository implements a semantic retrieval backend that lets ChatGPT (or GPT-powered tools) access private or organizational documents in natural language by combining vector search, embedding models, and plugin infrastructure. It can serve as a custom GPT plugin or function-calling backend so that a chat session can “look up” relevant documents based on user queries, inject those results into context, and respond more knowledgeably about a private knowledge base. The repo provides code for ingestion pipelines (embedding documents), APIs for querying, local server components, and privacy / PII detection modules. It also contains plugin manifest files (OpenAPI spec, plugin JSON) so that the retrieval backend can be registered in a plugin ecosystem. Because retrieval is often needed to make LLMs “know what’s in your docs” without leaking everything, this plugin aims to be a secure, flexible building block for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. -
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Controllable-RAG-Agent
This repository provides an advanced RAG
Controllable-RAG-Agent is an advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed specifically for complex, multi-step question answering over your own documents. Instead of relying solely on simple semantic search, it builds a deterministic control graph that acts as the “brain” of the agent, orchestrating planning, retrieval, reasoning, and verification across many steps. The pipeline ingests PDFs, splits them into chapters, cleans and preprocesses text, then constructs vector stores for fine-grained chunks, chapter summaries, and book quotes to support nuanced queries. At query time, it anonymizes entities, creates a high-level plan, de-anonymizes and expands that plan into concrete retrieval or reasoning tasks, and executes them in sequence while continuously revising the plan. A key focus is hallucination control: each answer is verified against retrieved context, and responses are reworked when they are not sufficiently grounded in the source documents. -
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DOSE: a distributed platform for semantic elaboration that provides semantic services such as automatic annotation of web resources at the document substructure level, semantic search facilities, semantic annotation storage and retrieval.
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FlagEmbedding
Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs
FlagEmbedding is an open-source toolkit for building and deploying high-performance text embedding models used in information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation systems. The project is part of the BAAI FlagOpen ecosystem and focuses on creating embedding models that transform text into dense vector representations suitable for semantic search and large language model pipelines. FlagEmbedding includes a family of models known as BGE (BAAI General Embedding), which are designed to achieve strong performance across multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval benchmarks. The toolkit provides infrastructure for inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, and dataset preparation, enabling developers to train custom embedding models for specific domains or applications. It also includes reranker models that refine search results by re-evaluating candidate documents using cross-encoder architectures, improving retrieval accuracy in complex queries. -
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Kernel Memory
Research project. A Memory solution for users, teams, and applications
Kernel Memory is an open-source reference architecture developed by Microsoft to help developers build memory systems for AI applications powered by large language models. The project focuses on enabling applications to store, index, and retrieve information so that AI systems can incorporate external knowledge when generating responses. It supports scenarios such as document ingestion, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented generation, allowing language models to answer questions using contextual information from private or enterprise datasets. Kernel Memory can ingest documents in multiple formats, process them into embeddings, and store them in searchable indexes. Applications can then query these indexed data sources to retrieve relevant information and include it as context for AI responses. -
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LEANN
Local RAG engine for private multimodal knowledge search on devices
LEANN is an open source system designed to enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search across personal data while running entirely on local devices. It focuses on dramatically reducing the storage overhead typically required for vector search and embedding indexes, enabling efficient large-scale knowledge retrieval on consumer hardware. LEANN introduces a storage-efficient approximate nearest neighbor index combined with on-the-fly embedding recomputation to avoid storing large embedding vectors. By recomputing embeddings during queries and using compact graph-based indexing structures, LEANN can maintain high search accuracy while minimizing disk usage. It aims to act as a unified personal knowledge layer that connects different types of data such as documents, code, images, and other local files into a searchable context for language models. -
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Language Models
Explore large language models in 512MB of RAM
languagemodels is a lightweight Python library designed to simplify experimentation with large language models while maintaining extremely low hardware requirements. The project focuses on enabling developers and students to explore language model capabilities without needing expensive GPUs or large cloud infrastructures. By using small and optimized models, the library allows LLM inference to run in environments with limited resources, sometimes requiring only a few hundred megabytes of memory. The package provides simple APIs that allow developers to generate text, perform semantic search, classify text, and answer questions using local models. It is particularly useful for educational purposes, as it demonstrates the fundamental mechanics of language model inference and prompt-based applications. The repository includes multiple example applications such as chatbots, document question answering systems, and information retrieval tools. -
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MemU
MemU is an open-source memory framework for AI companions
MemU is an agentic memory layer for LLM applications, specifically designed for AI companions. Transform your memory into an intelligent file system that automatically organizes, connects, and evolves with your memories. Simple, fast, and reliable memory infrastructure for AI applications. Powerful tools and dedicated support to scale your AI applications with confidence. Full proprietary features, commercial usage rights, and white-labeling options for your enterprise needs. SSO/RBAC integration and a dedicated algorithm team for scenario-specific optimization. User behavior analysis, real-time monitoring, and automated agent optimization tools. 24/7 dedicated support team, custom SLAs, and professional implementation services. -
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Microsoft Learn MCP Server
Official Microsoft Learn MCP Server, powering LLMs and AI agents
Microsoft Learn MCP Server is the official GitHub repository for the Microsoft Learn MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, a service that implements the Model Context Protocol to provide AI assistants and tools with reliable, real-time access to Microsoft’s official documentation. Rather than relying on training data that may be outdated or incomplete, MCP servers let agents like GitHub Copilot, Claude, or other LLM-based tools search and pull context directly from up-to-date Microsoft Learn content, including Azure, .NET, and other tech docs. By connecting to the MCP endpoint, coding agents can answer questions, retrieve code examples, and offer best practices grounded in authoritative sources without requiring API keys or manual browser searches. This capability helps eliminate hallucinations, improve accuracy, and streamline developer workflows by keeping relevant tech guidance close at hand. -
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MyMedia Peer: Mobile P2P Media Services
Jointly search, share and experience media in mobile P2P networks
The MyMedia Peer supports search, sharing and experiencing of semantically annotated media in unstructured P2P networks. The API provides interfaces for semantic service coordination in unstructured P2P networks. An implementation for mobile Android devices is given, which comprises the components: - semantic service selector iSeM (1.1) - semantic service planner OWLS-XPlan 2 - semantic search and replication in P2P networks: S2P2P and DSDR The MyMedia Peer, mobile service selector iSeM (1.1), S2P2P and DSDR were developed by Patrick Kapahnke, Xiaoqi Cao and PD Dr. Matthias Klusch at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH (http://www.dfki.de) in Saarbrücken, Germany. Copyright: DFKI, 2014, All Rights Reserved. For bug reports, technical problems and feature requests please contact: Patrick Kapahnke: patrick.kapahnke@dfki.de For general scientific inquiries please contact: PD Dr. Matthias Klusch: klusch@dfki.de -
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MyScaleDB
A @ClickHouse fork that supports high-performance vector search
MyScaleDB is an open-source SQL vector database designed for building large-scale AI and machine learning applications that require both analytical queries and semantic vector search. The system is built on top of the ClickHouse database engine and extends it with specialized indexing and search capabilities optimized for vector embeddings. This design allows developers to store structured data, unstructured text, and high-dimensional vector embeddings within a single database platform. MyScaleDB enables developers to perform vector similarity searches using standard SQL syntax, eliminating the need to learn specialized vector database query languages. The database is optimized for high performance and scalability, allowing it to handle extremely large datasets and high query loads typical of production AI applications. -
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OpenAI Cookbook
Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API
openai-cookbook is a repository containing example code, tutorials, and guidance for how to build real applications on top of the OpenAI API. It covers a wide range of use cases: prompt engineering, embeddings and semantic search, fine-tuning, agent architectures, function calling, working with images, chat workflows, and more. The content is primarily in Python (notebooks, scripts), but the conceptual guidance is applicable across languages. The repository is kept up to date and often expanded, and its examples are intended to serve both beginners and intermediate users of the API. It also includes deployment recipes, integration snippets (e.g. with GitHub Actions), and production considerations. Because OpenAI’s API evolves rapidly, the Cookbook acts as a living, community-curated reference to show “how to do X with the API” rather than only reprinting documentation.
