---
license: llama2
tags:
- llama
- llama-2
- pytorch
- chatbot
- storywriting
- generalist-model
model_name: Chronos Hermes 13B v2
inference: false
model_creator: Austism
model_link: https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2
model_type: llama
quantized_by: TheBloke
base_model: Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2
---
# Chronos Hermes 13B v2 - GGUF
- Model creator: [Austism](https://huggingface.co/Austism)
- Original model: [Chronos Hermes 13B v2](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2)
## Description
This repo contains GGUF format model files for [Austism's Chronos Hermes 13B v2](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2).
### About GGUF
GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp.
The key benefit of GGUF is that it is a extensible, future-proof format which stores more information about the model as metadata. It also includes significantly improved tokenization code, including for the first time full support for special tokens. This should improve performance, especially with models that use new special tokens and implement custom prompt templates.
Here are a list of clients and libraries that are known to support GGUF:
* [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp).
* [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui), the most widely used web UI, with many features and powerful extensions.
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp), a fully featured web UI, with full GPU accel across multiple platforms and GPU architectures. Especially good for story telling.
* [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai/), an easy-to-use and powerful local GUI with GPU acceleration on both Windows (NVidia and AMD), and macOS.
* [LoLLMS Web UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/lollms-webui), a great web UI with many interesting and unique features, including a full model library for easy model selection.
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers), a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible AI server.
* [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python), a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible API server.
* [candle](https://github.com/huggingface/candle), a Rust ML framework with a focus on performance, including GPU support, and ease of use.
## Repositories available
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference (deprecated)](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13B-v2-GGML)
* [Austism's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2)
## Prompt template: Alpaca
```
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.
### Instruction:
{prompt}
### Response:
```
## Compatibility
These quantised GGUF files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 21st 2023 onwards, as of commit [6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9)
They are now also compatible with many third party UIs and libraries - please see the list at the top of the README.
## Explanation of quantisation methods
Click to see details
The new methods available are:
* GGML_TYPE_Q2_K - "type-1" 2-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weight. Block scales and mins are quantized with 4 bits. This ends up effectively using 2.5625 bits per weight (bpw)
* GGML_TYPE_Q3_K - "type-0" 3-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 6 bits. This end up using 3.4375 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q4_K - "type-1" 4-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 8 blocks, each block having 32 weights. Scales and mins are quantized with 6 bits. This ends up using 4.5 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q5_K - "type-1" 5-bit quantization. Same super-block structure as GGML_TYPE_Q4_K resulting in 5.5 bpw
* GGML_TYPE_Q6_K - "type-0" 6-bit quantization. Super-blocks with 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 8 bits. This ends up using 6.5625 bpw
Refer to the Provided Files table below to see what files use which methods, and how.
## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q2_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q2_K.gguf) | Q2_K | 2 | 5.43 GB| 7.93 GB | smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_S.gguf) | Q3_K_S | 3 | 5.66 GB| 8.16 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 3 | 6.34 GB| 8.84 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_L.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q3_K_L.gguf) | Q3_K_L | 3 | 6.93 GB| 9.43 GB | small, substantial quality loss |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_0.gguf) | Q4_0 | 4 | 7.37 GB| 9.87 GB | legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_K_S.gguf) | Q4_K_S | 4 | 7.41 GB| 9.91 GB | small, greater quality loss |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 4 | 7.87 GB| 10.37 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_0.gguf) | Q5_0 | 5 | 8.97 GB| 11.47 GB | legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_K_S.gguf) | Q5_K_S | 5 | 8.97 GB| 11.47 GB | large, low quality loss - recommended |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 5 | 9.23 GB| 11.73 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q6_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q6_K.gguf) | Q6_K | 6 | 10.68 GB| 13.18 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| [chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF/blob/main/chronos-hermes-13b-v2.Q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 8 | 13.83 GB| 16.33 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended |
**Note**: the above RAM figures assume no GPU offloading. If layers are offloaded to the GPU, this will reduce RAM usage and use VRAM instead.
## Example `llama.cpp` command
Make sure you are using `llama.cpp` from commit [6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9) or later.
For compatibility with older versions of llama.cpp, or for any third-party libraries or clients that haven't yet updated for GGUF, please use GGML files instead.
```
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m chronos-hermes-13b-v2.q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 4096 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.\n\n### Instruction:\n{prompt}\n\n### Response:"
```
Change `-t 10` to the number of physical CPU cores you have. For example if your system has 8 cores/16 threads, use `-t 8`. If offloading all layers to GPU, set `-t 1`.
Change `-ngl 32` to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.
Change `-c 4096` to the desired sequence length for this model. For extended sequence models - eg 8K, 16K, 32K - the necessary RoPE scaling parameters are read from the GGUF file and set by llama.cpp automatically.
If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p ` argument with `-i -ins`
For other parameters and how to use them, please refer to [the llama.cpp documentation](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/main/README.md)
## How to run in `text-generation-webui`
Further instructions here: [text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/llama.cpp.md).
## How to run from Python code
You can use GGUF models from Python using the [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python) or [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers) libraries.
### How to load this model from Python using ctransformers
#### First install the package
```bash
# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24
# Or with CUDA GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers[cuda]>=0.2.24
# Or with ROCm GPU acceleration
CT_HIPBLAS=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems
CT_METAL=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers
```
#### Simple example code to load one of these GGUF models
```python
from ctransformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
# Set gpu_layers to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Set to 0 if no GPU acceleration is available on your system.
llm = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("TheBloke/Chronos-Hermes-13b-v2-GGUF", model_file="chronos-hermes-13b-v2.q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="llama", gpu_layers=50)
print(llm("AI is going to"))
```
## How to use with LangChain
Here's guides on using llama-cpp-python or ctransformers with LangChain:
* [LangChain + llama-cpp-python](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/llms/llamacpp)
* [LangChain + ctransformers](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/providers/ctransformers)
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# Original model card: Austism's Chronos Hermes 13B v2
# chronos-hermes-13b-v2
([chronos-13b-v2](https://huggingface.co/elinas/chronos-13b-v2) + [Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b)) 75/25 merge
This offers the imaginative writing style of chronos while still retaining coherency and being capable. Outputs are long and utilize exceptional prose.
Supports a maxium context length of 4096.
- [GPTQ Quantized Weights](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b-v2-GPTQ)
## Prompt Format
The model follows the Alpaca prompt format:
```
### Instruction:
### Response:
```
This is an adaption of [chronos-hermes-13b](https://huggingface.co/Austism/chronos-hermes-13b) for llama-2.