Structured Output from LLMs: Grammars, Regex, and State Machines

Try Voice Writer - speak your thoughts and let AI handle the grammar: https://voicewriter.io Structured outputs are essential for applications that integrate LLMs to make decisions in downstream tasks. In this video, I explain how structured output generation works - a topic that is very relevant and also an area of active research. First, we look at OpenAI API's ability to produce structured outputs using formats like Pydantic or Zod. For open-source alternatives, I cover the Outlines library, which operates using state machines and regex under the hood. However, in many cases, we need to …