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An LLM-Supported AI System is an AI-supported system that uses large language models.
- AKA: LLM-Based System, GenAI System, LLM-based Application.
- Context:
- It can typically process llm prompt and system configuration as llm-supported AI system input.
- It can typically produce model response and system action as llm-supported AI system output.
- It can typically be evaluated using response quality, processing time, resource usage, and llm-supported AI system safety measures.
- It can typically be developed through an llm-supported AI system development project (often by an llm engineering team who follow llm system development models).
- It can typically be composed of llm-supported AI system pipelines (such as an llm training pipeline).
- It can typically make use of an llm technology (such as an llm platform or llm libraries).
- It can typically implement various llm-supported AI system automation patterns.
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- It can often aim for an llm-centric system architecture.
- It can often utilize llm-supported cloud services for llm-supported system scalability.
- It can often employ llm-supported vector databases for llm-supported knowledge retrieval.
- It can often implement llm-supported prompt management for llm-supported consistent responses.
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- It can range from being a Simple LLM-Supported AI System to being a Complex LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system complexity level.
- It can range from being a Manual LLM-Supported AI System to being an Autonomous LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system autonomy level.
- It can range from being a Development LLM-Supported AI System to being a Production LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system deployment stage.
- It can range from being a Partially-Automated LLM-Supported AI System to being a Fully-Automated LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system automation level.
- It can range from being a Passive LLM-Supported AI System to being an Active LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system proactivity level.
- It can range from being a Batch LLM-Supported AI System to being an Online LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system processing mode.
- It can range from being a Personalized LLM-Supported AI System to being a Non-Personalized LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system customization level.
- It can range from being a Zero-Shot LLM-Supported AI System to being a Few-Shot LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system configuration approach.
- It can range from being an On-Premise LLM-Supported AI System to being a Cloud-Based LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system deployment model.
- It can range from being a Safety-Focused LLM-Supported AI System to being a Performance-Focused LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system optimization priority.
- It can range from being a Human-Supervised LLM-Supported AI System to being an Autonomous LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system agency level.
- It can range from being a Single-Turn LLM-Supported AI System to being a Multi-Turn LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its llm-supported AI system conversational capability.
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- It can implement llm-supported AI system integration types for connecting with external systems.
- It can utilize llm-supported API integration for llm-supported hosted service access.
- It can employ llm-supported framework integration for llm-supported workflow management.
- It can incorporate llm-supported data integration for llm-supported knowledge enhancement.
- It can be implemented using an ml framework (that can include an ml library, or ml tools).
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- Examples:
- General-Purpose LLM-Supported AI Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Conversational Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Open-Domain Chatbot for llm-supported conversation, such as:
- LLM-Supported Personal Assistant for llm-supported task automation, such as:
- LLM-Supported Information Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Information Extraction System for llm-supported data extraction, such as:
- LLM-Supported Text Classification System for llm-supported content analysis, such as:
- LLM-Supported Content Generation System for llm-supported text creation, such as:
- LLM-Supported Question Answering System for llm-supported query response
- LLM-Supported Document Summarization System for llm-supported content summary
- LLM-Supported Term Definition System for llm-supported term explanation
- LLM-Supported Language Translation System for llm-supported language conversion
- LLM-Supported Recommender System for llm-supported content recommendation.
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- LLM-Supported Conversational Systems, such as:
- Domain-Specific LLM-Supported AI Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Business Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Professional Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Healthcare Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Legal Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Education Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Development Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Code Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Documentation Systems, such as:
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- LLM-Supported Infrastructure Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Cloud Platform for llm-supported cloud deployment, such as:
- LLM-Supported Edge System for llm-supported local processing, such as:
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- LLM-Supported Development Support Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Testing Platform for llm-supported quality assurance, such as:
- LLM-Supported Development Environment for llm-supported system creation, such as:
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- LLM-Supported Data Processing Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported Data Pipeline for llm-supported data flow, such as:
- LLM-Supported Vector Database for llm-supported data storage, such as:
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- LLM-Supported Integration Systems, such as:
- LLM-Supported API Gateway for llm-supported service management, such as:
- LLM-Supported Workflow System for llm-supported process automation, such as:
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- General-Purpose LLM-Supported AI Systems, such as:
- Counter-Examples:
- Traditional ML System, which uses statistical models rather than large language models for AI task execution.
- Rule-Based AI System, which relies on predefined rules rather than llm-supported learning patterns.
- Expert System, which uses knowledge bases rather than llm-supported language understanding.
- Neural Network System, which focuses on pattern recognition rather than llm-supported language processing.
- Information Retrieval System, which performs data lookup rather than llm-supported text generation.
- See: ML-based System, GenAI System, Large Language Model, AI Application.
References
2025-05-13
- Deep Research https://chatgpt.com/s/dr_682388cf61708191ac46e07da0520a97
- Question: What is the structure and function of an LLM-Supported AI System?
- Answer: LLM-Supported AI Systems are generative AI applications that leverage large language models (LLMs) as core algorithms to perform complex tasks. In these systems, an LLM (such as GPT-4, PaLM, Claude, etc.) is integrated into a larger software solution to solve tasks that require understanding or generating natural language. Such systems handle natural language inputs and outputs and often augment the LLM with surrounding tools and data to meet real-world requirements.
- LLM-Supported AI System:
- Also known as: LLM-Based System, GenAI System, LLM Application.
- An LLM-Supported AI System is a generative AI application that implements an LLM-based algorithm to solve an LLM-based task (which requires the use of a large language model).
- LLM-Supported AI Systems leverage large language models as core algorithms to perform complex tasks requiring natural language understanding or generation.
- These systems integrate LLMs into larger software solutions, augmenting them with tools and data to meet real-world requirements.
- Core Components:
- Prompt Input: The primary user query or instruction given to the LLM. This often includes a prompt template with structured parts: a clear instruction or question, optional role or persona specification, and sometimes examples to guide the model.
- Configuration Parameters: Settings that control the LLM's behavior during generation. Key parameters include temperature (controls randomness vs. determinism), top-p (nucleus sampling), max tokens (response length limit), and penalties to reduce repetition.
- Context Data: Additional data supplied alongside the prompt to ground the LLM's output in facts or history. Context can include conversation history, domain knowledge, or retrieved documents from a knowledge base.
- Output and Response Types: The result produced by the system, which may be a model-generated response (usually text) or a system action triggered by the model.
- System Configuration & Controls: Beyond model parameters, the overall system may have configuration for which LLM model or API to use, how to handle rate limits or errors, and guardrails for safety.
- Performance Monitoring: Components to measure task performance such as response quality, latency, cost (token usage), and safety compliance.
- System Architecture Models:
- LLM-Centric Architecture: In this model, the LLM is the central "brain" of the application, and much of the logic is driven by the LLM's reasoning on natural language prompts. The system is AI-centric – traditional code delegates complex decisions to the LLM.
- Hub-and-Spoke Architecture: An enterprise-friendly variant that uses a central orchestration hub to manage interactions with the LLM, surrounded by modular adapter components ("spokes") that connect to business systems.
- Pipeline or Tool-Enhanced Architecture: Here, the LLM is one component in a multi-step pipeline or is augmented by external tools. The system might first preprocess input, then call the LLM, then post-process the output.
- Microservice Integration: In some architectures, the LLM functionality is wrapped as a microservice or API that other services call.
- Integration Types:
- LLM API Integration: The system calls external LLM services via API (e.g., OpenAI GPT-4 API or Cohere API). This requires handling network calls, authentication, and possibly batching requests for efficiency.
- LLM Framework or Library Integration: The system uses an internal library or framework to manage LLM interactions. For example, using Hugging Face Transformers or Google's T5 library to load a model in-house, or higher-level frameworks like LangChain or Haystack.
- Data/Knowledge Integration: The system integrates the LLM with enterprise data sources—databases, knowledge bases, or information retrieval systems. This is the aforementioned RAG approach: the LLM is not an isolated brain; it works in tandem with a knowledge source.
- State Management and Memory: Some architectures include components for LLM state management (for multi-turn conversations) and memory. A stateless system treats each request independently, whereas a stateful system maintains conversational context between turns.
- Automation Patterns:
- Pipeline Automation: Using LLMs to automate a sequence of processing steps. Data flows through a series of stages – possibly involving multiple LLM invocations or combining LLMs with deterministic transformations – without requiring human intervention at each step.
- Decision Automation: Using LLMs to make autonomous choices or decisions that direct the flow of an application. In decision automation, the LLM isn't just generating content – it's deciding what to do next.
- Interaction Automation: Automating the user engagement loop – i.e., LLMs not only respond to user queries but can proactively initiate or guide interactions. A passive system waits for user input, whereas an active LLM system might ask clarifying questions or even initiate conversations.
- Feedback Loop Automation: Systems that continuously learn or refine themselves using feedback, without human developers manually tuning each iteration. The LLM's outputs are evaluated, and these results feed into improving the system over time.
- Development and Deployment Stages:
- Prototype Stage: In the initial stage, developers focus on getting something working quickly. The goal is to demonstrate feasibility and value, often as a tech demo or proof-of-concept.
- Production Stage: Taking that prototype to a real product or enterprise solution. The demands in this stage include reliability, accuracy, scalability, security, and maintainability – areas where naive prototypes often fall short.
- Operation Modes:
- Passive vs. Active Systems: A passive LLM system waits for user input or an external request to trigger it. An active (or proactive) LLM system can initiate behavior or outputs without a direct prompt, based on context or goals.
- Batch vs. Online Processing: Some LLM systems operate in batch mode, processing large volumes of data in bulk. Online (real-time) mode means the system handles requests one at a time with low latency.
- Personalized vs. Non-Personalized: A non-personalized LLM system gives the same kind of responses for all users. A personalized system tailors its behavior to the individual user or user segment.
- Manual vs. Autonomous Operation: This highlights whether the system requires human oversight (manual operation) or can run on its own (autonomous).
- Use Cases and Applications:
- Conversational Assistants and Chatbots: LLM-powered chatbots can engage in human-like dialogue to answer questions, provide customer support, or just chat for entertainment.
- Content Generation: LLMs can produce human-like text for various purposes: writing articles and blog posts, generating marketing copy, drafting emails, composing social media updates, and creative writing.
- Summarization and Information Extraction: LLMs can summarize long texts into concise forms and extract structured data from text.
- Text Classification and Analysis: LLMs can categorize or analyze text based on content, enabling tasks like sentiment analysis, topic categorization, intent detection, and more.
- Code Generation and Software Development: Models can assist in writing and analyzing code, providing real-time coding assistance.
- Translation and Localization: LLMs handle translation tasks impressively well, often approaching human-level quality for many language pairs.
- Knowledge Retrieval & Question Answering: Many LLM systems serve as advanced Q&A systems, where the user asks a question and the system provides a detailed answer.
- Recommender Systems & Personal Assistants: LLMs can augment recommender systems and act as personal assistants, helping with tasks and making suggestions.
- Common Technologies and Tools:
- LLM Model APIs and Services: Most applications rely on either a cloud-based API or a self-hosted model. LLM-as-a-Service offerings like OpenAI's API, Google's PaLM API, and Anthropic's Claude API.
- LLM Orchestration Frameworks: Frameworks to manage prompts, chains of calls, and integrations with tools. Examples include LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Haystack.
- Vector Databases / Knowledge Bases: Since LLMs don't have a built-in database of the latest or user-specific information, vector databases have become a staple to enable Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
- Prompt Management and Execution Tools: Tools and platforms to manage prompt templates, versions, and experimentation.
- Model Fine-tuning and Customization Tools: Tools to fine-tune or train models on specific data. Includes platforms like Hugging Face's training scripts and techniques like LoRA.
- MLOps/LLMOps Infrastructure: Deploying an LLM system in production requires ops tooling for monitoring, evaluation, A/B testing, and deployment.
- Implementation Best Practices:
- Prompt Engineering Discipline: Treat prompts as a first-class part of the system's code. Centralize and templatize prompts, using clear, structured formats with comments explaining their intent.
- Guardrails for Safety and Correctness: Implement measures that ensure the LLM's output is safe and as correct as possible through input filtering, output filtering, controlled generation techniques, and post-hoc validation.
- Modularity and Abstraction: Build the system in a modular way, separating concerns like prompting, business logic, data retrieval, and external integrations.
- Observability and Logging: Implement strong observability to understand how the system is behaving. Log requests, responses, and metadata like timing and parameters.
- Evaluation and Testing Regimen: Develop a plan for evaluating the AI's outputs using automated tests and human evaluation.
- Continuous Improvement via Feedback: Set up mechanisms to leverage feedback to improve the system over time.
- Governance, Compliance, and Ethics: Establish clear governance policies for how the AI should behave and be updated.
- Cost Optimization: Implement strategies to optimize cost through caching, model selection, and efficient prompt design.
- Stay Model-Agnostic and Plan for Change: Design the system so that you can upgrade the LLM or switch providers relatively easily.
- Core Components:
- It can range from being a Foundation LLM-Supported AI System to being an Application-Focused LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system development focus.
- It can range from being a Proprietary LLM-Supported AI System to being an Open-Source LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system model approach.
- It can range from being a General-Purpose LLM-Supported AI System to being a Domain-Specific LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system application scope.
- It can range from being a Small LLM-Supported AI System to being a Large LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system organizational scale.
- It can range from being a Research-Oriented LLM-Supported AI System to being a Production-Oriented LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system delivery focus.
- It can range from being a Partially-Automated LLM-Supported AI System to being a Fully-Automated LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system automation level.
- It can range from being a Passive LLM-Supported AI System to being a Active LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system proactivity level.
- It can range from being a Batch LLM-Supported AI System to being an Online LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system processing mode.
- It can range from being a Personalized LLM-Supported AI System to being a Non-Personalized LLM-Supported AI System, depending on its LLM-supported AI system customization level.
- Citations:
- Citations
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2023
- https://www.fiddler.ai/blog/four-ways-that-enterprises-deploy-llms
- QUOTE: With the rapid pace of LLM innovations, enterprises are actively exploring use cases and deploying their first generative AI applications into production. As the deployment of LLMs or LLMOps began in earnest this year, enterprises have incorporated four types of LLM deployment methods, contingent on a mix of their own talent, tools and capital investment. Bear in mind these deployment approaches will keep evolving as new LLM optimizations and tooling are launched regularly.
The goal of this post is to walk through these approaches and talk about the decisions behind these design choices.
Four approaches to LLMs in production (AWS Generative AI Summit)- There are four different approaches that enterprises are taking to jumpstart their LLM journey. These four approaches range from easy and cheap to difficult and expensive to deploy, and enterprises should assess their AI maturity, model selection (open vs. closed), data available, use cases, and investment resources when choosing the approach that works for their company’s AI strategy. Let’s dive in.
- QUOTE: With the rapid pace of LLM innovations, enterprises are actively exploring use cases and deploying their first generative AI applications into production. As the deployment of LLMs or LLMOps began in earnest this year, enterprises have incorporated four types of LLM deployment methods, contingent on a mix of their own talent, tools and capital investment. Bear in mind these deployment approaches will keep evolving as new LLM optimizations and tooling are launched regularly.
2023
- chat
- Q: An LLM-based production system refers to a system that utilizes large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT series to enhance, automate, or support various aspects of production or operations. These systems leverage the natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning capabilities of LLMs to perform tasks that typically require human intervention or expertise. While I'm not aware of any specific production systems called "LLM-based production systems," I can give you some examples of systems that utilize LLMs in their functioning:
- Content generation: LLMs like GPT-4 can automatically generate content for blogs, social media, and marketing campaigns, reducing the time and effort required by human content creators.
- Customer support: LLMs can be integrated into chatbots and support systems to handle customer queries, complaints, and concerns more effectively and efficiently.
- Document summarization: LLMs can automatically summarize long documents, reports, or articles, making it easier for professionals to extract relevant information quickly.
- Legal analysis: LLMs can be employed to review contracts, analyze legal documents, and provide insights into complex legal matters, saving time and resources for legal professionals.
- Language translation: LLMs can be used to develop translation systems that accurately convert text from one language to another, making communication easier across different countries and cultures.
- Sentiment analysis: LLMs can analyze customer reviews and feedback to identify positive or negative sentiments, helping businesses improve their products and services.
- Medical diagnosis: LLMs can assist medical professionals by analyzing patient symptoms and medical history to suggest potential diagnoses and treatment plans.
- These are just a few examples of how LLMs can be integrated into various production systems to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall output. As AI research and development continues, LLMs will likely find even more applications across a wide range of industries.
- Q: An LLM-based production system refers to a system that utilizes large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT series to enhance, automate, or support various aspects of production or operations. These systems leverage the natural language understanding, generation, and reasoning capabilities of LLMs to perform tasks that typically require human intervention or expertise. While I'm not aware of any specific production systems called "LLM-based production systems," I can give you some examples of systems that utilize LLMs in their functioning: