[Frontend] [Bugfix] Refactor tool parsers and simplify the tool parsing interface.

[paolovic]

Co-authored-by: elementary-particle

Completed the following, stale PR:

"This is the PR for the RFC #11522. Currently we are building a draft of simpler tool parsers using streaming JSON parsing libraries to reduce overhead and avoid bugs. Tests and commits will be added gradually.

FIX #11392 ."

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[paolovic]

Hi @marcelodiaz558, hi @Endebert,
can you verify if this fits your needs?

Thank you and best regards,
Paul

[PedroF43]

Just chiming in, there is also a problem with the llama 3 tool parser where it cant generate non ascii characters

[Endebert]

@paolovic Thanks for doing this. I can confirm my issues with streamed function calling are resolved with this PR.

[paolovic]

Hi @PedroF43 ,
if this is related to this PR, could you provide an example, please?

Thank you and best regards,
Paul

[PedroFariadtx]

Hi @PedroF43 , if this is related to this PR, could you provide an example, please?

Thank you and best regards, Paul

this PR of mine has better examples #13826

[paolovic]

Hi @PedroF43 , if this is related to this PR, could you provide an example, please?
Thank you and best regards, Paul

this PR of mine has better examples #13826

But this PR is about hermes tool parser, yours is about llama tool parser, isn't it?

[PedroFariadtx]

Hi @PedroF43 , if this is related to this PR, could you provide an example, please?
Thank you and best regards, Paul

this PR of mine has better examples #13826

But this PR is about hermes tool parser, yours is about llama tool parser, isn't it?

yes you are correct, i thought that by your title you intended to go trough all the available tool parsers

[DarkLight1337]

cc @K-Mistele

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[paolovic]

Hi @K-Mistele could you have a look, please?

[paolovic]

Hi @Endebert ,
I got a notification from you about a potential bug containing two JSONs as arguments.
Did you delete this comment because it is resolved?

[Endebert]

Hi @Endebert ,
I got a notification from you about a potential bug containing two JSONs as arguments.
Did you delete this comment because it is resolved?

@paolovic Yes, sorry about that. Turned out it was a bug in our code, which appended arguments objects if multiple functions were called during the same streaming response.

[paolovic]

Hi @Endebert ,
I got a notification from you about a potential bug containing two JSONs as arguments.
Did you delete this comment because it is resolved?

@paolovic Yes, sorry about that. Turned out it was a bug in our code, which appended arguments objects if multiple functions were called during the same streaming response.

Easy, no problem, thanks for letting me know!
Best regards

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[DarkLight1337]

@aarnphm can you help review this?

[aarnphm]

Hi there, thanks for your contribution.

I want to propose that we pause refactoring effort on tool calling atm, given that xgrammar has recently shared with us their plans to add function calling to structural tags (will share more on this).

I'm writing a RFC for tool calling, but the basic idea is that if we can reliably enforce structural tags, the parsing logic can be simplified. This would in hands address partial JSON issue without having to introduce another library to parse this.

[Endebert]

@aarnphm Do you have an ETA regarding your alternative route? Because we need these changes for production use. It's fine I guess to stay on this fork and rebase + manually build it occasionally, but it's still an inconvenience.

[aarnphm]

Do you have an ETA regarding your alternative route? Because we need these changes for production use. It's fine I guess to stay on this fork and rebase + manually build it occasionally, but it's still an inconvenience.

I would want to have this ready before 0.10.0, which will be in around 4-6 weeks.

fwiw we might want to just merge all of the implementations/fix right now to make sure that it will still work for 0.9.x, but for 0.10.x, i would be more lenient for a RFC for redesigning the parser.

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