Jsonformer: A Bulletproof Way to Generate Structured JSON from Language Models

Jsonformer: A Bulletproof Way to Generate Structured JSON from Language Models

This is such an interesting trick. A common challenge with LLMs is getting them to output a specific JSON shape of data reliably, without occasionally messing up and generating invalid JSON or outputting other text.

Jsonformer addresses this in a truly ingenious way: it implements code that interacts with the logic that decides which token to output next, influenced by a JSON schema. If that code knows that the …

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