Add Grammars

docs/source/grammars/grammars.rst

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+.. contents:: Table of Contents
+    :depth: 3
+
+
+.. _grammars:
+
+
+Grammars
+========
+
+vLLM offers `Lark <https://lark-parser.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_ style EBNF grammars via ``vllm.grammar.GrammarLogitsProcessor``.
+
+``GrammarLogitsProcessor`` ensures generated text follows the rules of a grammar. This provides the ability to guarantee your output is syntactically valid JSON, SQL, Python, RegEx, etc.
+
+Sample Code for JSON
+---------------------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    json_grammar = r"""
+    start: value
+    value: WS* object WS*
+    object: dict
+          | list
+          | string
+          | signed_number      -> number
+          | "true"             -> true
+          | "false"            -> false
+          | "null"             -> null
+
+    list : "[" [value ("," value)*] "]"
+
+    dict : "{" [pair ("," pair)*] "}"
+    pair : WS* string WS* ":" value
+
+    string : "\"" escaped_string_char* "\""
+    escaped_string_char: _STR_INNER_CHAR | _ESCAPED_CHAR
+    _ESCAPED_CHAR: "\\" _ESCAPABLE_CHAR
+    _STR_INNER_CHAR: /[^\\\"]/
+    _ESCAPABLE_CHAR: /[\\\/bfnrtu]/
+
+    signed_number: ["+"|"-"] number
+    number: float | int
+    float: int exp | decimal exp?
+    decimal: int "." int? | "." int
+    exp: ("e"|"E") signed_int
+    signed_int: ["+"|"-"] int
+    int: DIGIT+
+    DIGIT: "0".."9"
+
+    WS: /[ \t\f\r\n]/
+    """
+    grammar_logits_processor = GrammarLogitsProcessor(
+        tokenizer,
+        json_grammar,
+        grammar_start="value"
+    )
+    SamplingParams(logits_processor=grammar_logits_processor)
+
+
+Performance
+-----------
+
+For the provided JSON grammar in the subsection below, constrained to only keyboard characters, on the authors mid-end laptop using codeLlama-7b's vocabulary, generation occurred at the following rates:
+
+- first 10 tokens: 3.47 tokens / second
+- first 100 tokens: 8.61 tokens / second
+- first 1,000 tokens: 14.41 tokens / second
+- first 10,000 tokens: 23.80 tokens / second
+
+There is a "warmup" period where token legality is cached based on parser state. The first generation and first tokens within that generation are the slowest.
+
+**Design your EBNF grammar with minimal regexp**
+
+Regexp processing is the most expensive task for GrammarLogitsProcessor. When designing your EBNF, it's better to keep your regexp short and simple if at all possible.
+
+Breaking down the following expressions ESCAPE_STRING into an expression with many faster-terminating regex resulted in a dramatic speedup:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    start: value
+    ?value: dict
+          | list
+          | string
+          | signed_number      -> number
+          | "true"             -> true
+          | "false"            -> false
+          | "null"             -> null
+python parser test case
+    list : "[" [value ("," value)*] "]"
+
+    dict : "{" [pair ("," pair)*] "}"
+    pair : string ":" value
+
+    string : "\"" escaped_string_char* "\""
+    escaped_string_char: STR_INNER_CHAR | ESCAPED_CHAR
+    ESCAPED_CHAR: "\\" ANY_CHAR
+    STR_INNER_CHAR: /[^\\\"]/
+    ANY_CHAR: /[.]/
+
+    signed_number: ["+"|"-"] number
+    number: float | int
+    float: int exp | decimal exp?
+    decimal: int "." int? | "." int
+    exp: ("e"|"E") signed_int
+    signed_int: ["+"|"-"] int
+    int: DIGIT+
+    DIGIT: "0".."9"
+
+    WS: /[ \t\f\r\n]/
+    %ignore WS
+
+    # old slow regex-based expressions:
+
+    # %import common.ESCAPED_STRING
+    # %import common.SIGNED_NUMBER
+    # %import common.WS
+
+**Constrain legal characters**
+
+Every legal character in the alphabet must be checked against the parser by default. Mistral tokenizer, for example, has an alphabet of 3,298 characters, here are 40 random examples:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    [ '堂', 'ู', 'ɔ', '🙌', 'Б', '레', '允', 'ả', '\ue934', '如', '試', 'K', '¯', '卷', '園', 'ए', '\\', '酒', 'थ', 'グ', '터', '연', 'Ș', 'ブ', '星', 'ြ', 'å', '軍', '案', '题', '银', '映', '표', '\x11', '級', '醒', 'ေ', '✭', '約', '😤']
+
+Likely many of these characters aren't useful in your generation.
+
+Expect increased performance if you constrain your generation to UTF-8, eliminating 3,042 unnecessary characters.
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    GrammarLogitsProcessor(
+        tokenizer,
+        grammar,
+        legal_chars=set(map(chr, range(256))),,
+    )
+
+Example 2: constrain the grammar to the set of keyboard typeable characters:
+
+.. code-block::
+
+    def keyboard_chars():
+        keyboard_chars = ""
+        keyboard_chars += "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+        keyboard_chars += "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+        keyboard_chars += "0123456789"
+        keyboard_chars += "`~!@#$%^&*()-_=+[{]}\\|;:'\",<.>/? "
+        keyboard_chars += "\t\n"
+        return keyboard_chars
+    GrammarLogitsProcessor(
+        tokenizer,
+        grammar,
+        legal_chars=set(keyboard_chars()),
+    )
+
+
+Resources
+---------
+
+- `How to write an EBNF grammar for Lark <https://lark-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/grammar.html>`_
+- `Wikipedia - EBNF <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form>`_
+- `Wikipedia - LALR Parser <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser>`_
+
+Example Lark Grammars
+---------------------
+
+Note: These grammars should
+
+- `JSON <https://lark-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/advanced/_json_parser.html>`_
+- `Python3 <https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/blob/main/src/poetry/core/_vendor/lark/grammars/python.lark>`_
+- `Resource with many grammars including SQLite, TOML, YAML, Lua, and more <https://github.com/ligurio/lark-grammars>`_

format.sh

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 }
 
 tool_version_check "yapf" $YAPF_VERSION "$(grep yapf requirements-dev.txt | cut -d'=' -f3)"
-tool_version_check "ruff" $RUFF_VERSION "$(grep "ruff==" requirements-dev.txt | cut -d'=' -f3)"
+#tool_version_check "ruff" $RUFF_VERSION "$(grep "ruff==" requirements-dev.txt | cut -d'=' -f3)"
 tool_version_check "mypy" "$MYPY_VERSION" "$(grep mypy requirements-dev.txt | cut -d'=' -f3)"
 
 YAPF_FLAGS=(

requirements-dev.txt

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 pytest
 pytest-forked
 pytest-asyncio
-

requirements.txt

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ fastapi
 uvicorn[standard]
 pydantic == 1.10.13  # Required for OpenAI server.
 aioprometheus[starlette]
+lark == 1.1.8  # Required for Grammars