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Self hosting an LLM for research (self.selfhosted)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Maroon to c/selfhosted

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I am a teacher and I have a LOT of different literature material that I wish to study, and play around with.

I wish to have a self-hosted and reasonably smart LLM into which I can feed all the textual material I have generated over the years. I would be interested to see if this model can answer some of my subjective course questions that I have set over my exams, or write small paragraphs about the topic I teach.

In terms of hardware, I have an old Lenovo laptop with an NVIDIA graphics card.

P.S: I am not technically very experienced. I run Linux and can do very basic stuff. Never self hosted anything other than LibreTranslate and a pihole!

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[–] stanleytweedle 4 points 5 months ago

I'm in the early stages of this myself and haven't actually run an LLM locally but the term that steered me in the right direction for what I was trying to do was 'RAG' Retrieval-Augmented Generation.

ragflow.io (terrible name but good product) seems to be a good starting point but is mainly set up for APIs at the moment though I found this link for local LLM integration and I'm going to play with it later today. https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/docs/guides/deploy_local_llm.md