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The problem I keep running into with that approach is that only the last page is actually summarised and some of the texts are... Longer.
Yeh, i did some looking up in the meantime and indeed you're gonna have a context size issue. That's why it's only summarizing the last few thousand characters of the text, that's the size of its attention.
There are some models fine-tuned to 8K tokens context window, some even to 16K like this Mistral brew. If you have a GPU with 8G of VRAM you should be able to run it, using one of the quantized versions (Q4 or Q5 should be fine). Summarizing should still be reasonably good.
If 16k isn't enough for you then that's probably not something you can perform locally. However you can still run a larger model privately in the cloud. Hugging face for example allows you to rent GPUs by the minute and run inference on them, it should just net you a few dollars. As far as i know this approach should still be compatible with Open WebUI.
Thanks! I actually picked up the concept of context window, and from there how to create a modelfile, through one of the links provided earlier and it has made a huge difference. In your experience, would a small model like llama3.2 with a bigger context window be able to provide the same output as a big modem L, like qwen2.5:14b, with a more limited window? The bigger window obviously allow more data to be taken into account, but how does the model size compare?
If I understand these things correctly, the context window only affects how much text the model can "keep in mind" at any one time. It should not affect task performance outside of this factor.