Remove dependency on LiteLLM (#126)

examples/benchmark.ipynb

@@ -21,13 +21,15 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 4,
+   "execution_count": 1,
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [
     {
      "name": "stderr",
      "output_type": "stream",
      "text": [
+      "/Users/aymeric/venv/test/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tqdm/auto.py:21: TqdmWarning: IProgress not found. Please update jupyter and ipywidgets. See https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_install.html\n",
+      "  from .autonotebook import tqdm as notebook_tqdm\n",
       "Using the latest cached version of the dataset since m-ric/smolagentsbenchmark couldn't be found on the Hugging Face Hub\n",
       "Found the latest cached dataset configuration 'default' at /Users/aymeric/.cache/huggingface/datasets/m-ric___smolagentsbenchmark/default/0.0.0/0ad5fb2293ab185eece723a4ac0e4a7188f71add (last modified on Wed Jan  8 17:50:13 2025).\n"
      ]
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@
        "[132 rows x 4 columns]"
       ]
      },
-     "execution_count": 4,
+     "execution_count": 1,
      "metadata": {},
      "output_type": "execute_result"
     }
@@ -195,9 +197,19 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 5,
+   "execution_count": 2,
    "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stderr",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "/Users/aymeric/venv/test/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydantic/_internal/_config.py:345: UserWarning: Valid config keys have changed in V2:\n",
+      "* 'fields' has been removed\n",
+      "  warnings.warn(message, UserWarning)\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
    "source": [
     "import time\n",
     "import json\n",

pyproject.toml

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "duckduckgo-search>=6.3.7",
   "python-dotenv>=1.0.1",
   "e2b-code-interpreter>=1.0.3",
-  "litellm>=1.55.10",
   "openai>=1.58.1",
 ]
 
@@ -40,4 +39,5 @@ test = [
   "ruff>=0.5.0",
   "accelerate",
   "soundfile",
+  "litellm>=1.55.10",
 ]

src/smolagents/models.py

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ from copy import deepcopy
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
-import litellm
 import torch
 from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient
 from transformers import (
@@ -48,6 +47,13 @@ DEFAULT_CODEAGENT_REGEX_GRAMMAR = {
     "value": "Thought: .+?\\nCode:\\n```(?:py|python)?\\n(?:.|\\s)+?\\n```<end_action>",
 }
 
+try:
+    import litellm
+
+    is_litellm_available = True
+except ImportError:
+    is_litellm_available = False
+
 
 class MessageRole(str, Enum):
     USER = "user"
@@ -428,6 +434,10 @@ class LiteLLMModel(Model):
         api_key=None,
         **kwargs,
     ):
+        if not is_litellm_available:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "litellm not found. Install it with `pip install litellm`"
+            )
         super().__init__()
         self.model_id = model_id
         # IMPORTANT - Set this to TRUE to add the function to the prompt for Non OpenAI LLMs
@@ -510,7 +520,7 @@ class OpenAIServerModel(Model):
         api_base: str,
         api_key: str,
         temperature: float = 0.7,
-        **kwargs
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         super().__init__()
         self.model_id = model_id
@@ -539,7 +549,7 @@ class OpenAIServerModel(Model):
             stop=stop_sequences,
             max_tokens=max_tokens,
             temperature=self.temperature,
-            **self.kwargs
+            **self.kwargs,
         )
 
         self.last_input_token_count = response.usage.prompt_tokens
@@ -566,7 +576,7 @@ class OpenAIServerModel(Model):
             stop=stop_sequences,
             max_tokens=max_tokens,
             temperature=self.temperature,
-            **self.kwargs
+            **self.kwargs,
         )
 
         tool_calls = response.choices[0].message.tool_calls[0]