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Falcon 180B - GGUF

Description

This repo contains GGUF format model files for Technology Innovation Institute's Falcon 180B.

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.

Here is an incomplate list of clients and libraries that are known to support GGUF:

  • llama.cpp. The source project for GGUF. Offers a CLI and a server option.
  • text-generation-webui, the most widely used web UI, with many features and powerful extensions. Supports GPU acceleration.
  • KoboldCpp, a fully featured web UI, with GPU accel across all platforms and GPU architectures. Especially good for story telling.
  • LM Studio, an easy-to-use and powerful local GUI for Windows and macOS (Silicon), with GPU acceleration.
  • LoLLMS Web UI, a great web UI with many interesting and unique features, including a full model library for easy model selection.
  • Faraday.dev, an attractive and easy to use character-based chat GUI for Windows and macOS (both Silicon and Intel), with GPU acceleration.
  • ctransformers, a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible AI server.
  • llama-cpp-python, a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible API server.
  • candle, a Rust ML framework with a focus on performance, including GPU support, and ease of use.

Repositories available

Prompt template: None

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Compatibility

These quantised GGUFv2 files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 27th onwards, as of commit d0cee0d

They are also compatible with many third party UIs and libraries - please see the list at the top of this 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
falcon-180b.Q2_K.gguf Q2_K 2 73.97 GB 76.47 GB smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes
falcon-180b.Q3_K_S.gguf Q3_K_S 3 77.77 GB 80.27 GB very small, high quality loss
falcon-180b.Q3_K_M.gguf Q3_K_M 3 85.18 GB 87.68 GB very small, high quality loss
falcon-180b.Q3_K_L.gguf Q3_K_L 3 91.99 GB 94.49 GB small, substantial quality loss
falcon-180b.Q4_0.gguf Q4_0 4 101.48 GB 103.98 GB legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M
falcon-180b.Q4_K_S.gguf Q4_K_S 4 101.48 GB 103.98 GB small, greater quality loss
falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M 4 108.48 GB 110.98 GB medium, balanced quality - recommended
falcon-180b.Q5_0.gguf Q5_0 5 123.80 GB 126.30 GB legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M
falcon-180b.Q5_K_S.gguf Q5_K_S 5 123.80 GB 126.30 GB large, low quality loss - recommended
falcon-180b.Q5_K_M.gguf Q5_K_M 5 130.99 GB 133.49 GB large, very low quality loss - recommended
falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf Q6_K 6 147.52 GB 150.02 GB very large, extremely low quality loss
falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf Q8_0 8 190.76 GB 193.26 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.

Q6_K and Q8_0 files are split and require joining

Note: HF does not support uploading files larger than 50GB. Therefore I have uploaded the Q6_K and Q8_0 files as split files.

Click for instructions regarding Q6_K and Q8_0 files

q6_K

Please download:

  • falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a
  • falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b

q8_0

Please download:

  • falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a
  • falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b

To join the files, do the following:

Linux and macOS:

cat falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-* > falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf && rm falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-*
cat falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-* > falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf && rm falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-*

Windows command line:

COPY /B falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a + falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf
del falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b

COPY /B falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a + falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf
del falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b

How to download GGUF files

Note for manual downloaders: You almost never want to clone the entire repo! Multiple different quantisation formats are provided, and most users only want to pick and download a single file.

The following clients/libraries will automatically download models for you, providing a list of available models to choose from:

  • LM Studio
  • LoLLMS Web UI
  • Faraday.dev

In text-generation-webui

Under Download Model, you can enter the model repo: TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf.

Then click Download.

On the command line, including multiple files at once

I recommend using the huggingface-hub Python library:

pip3 install huggingface-hub

Then you can download any individual model file to the current directory, at high speed, with a command like this:

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
More advanced huggingface-cli download usage

You can also download multiple files at once with a pattern:

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False --include='*Q4_K*gguf'

For more documentation on downloading with huggingface-cli, please see: HF -> Hub Python Library -> Download files -> Download from the CLI.

To accelerate downloads on fast connections (1Gbit/s or higher), install hf_transfer:

pip3 install hf_transfer

And set environment variable HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER to 1:

HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False

Windows Command Line users: You can set the environment variable by running set HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 before the download command.

Example llama.cpp command

Make sure you are using llama.cpp from commit d0cee0d or later.

./main -ngl 32 -m falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "{prompt}"

Change -ngl 32 to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.

Change -c 2048 to the desired sequence length. 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 <PROMPT> argument with -i -ins

For other parameters and how to use them, please refer to the llama.cpp documentation

How to run in text-generation-webui

Further instructions here: text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp.md.

How to run from Python code

You can use GGUF models from Python using the llama-cpp-python or ctransformers libraries.

How to load this model in Python code, using ctransformers

First install the package

Run one of the following commands, according to your system:

# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers
# Or with CUDA GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers[cuda]
# Or with AMD ROCm GPU acceleration (Linux only)
CT_HIPBLAS=1 pip install ctransformers --no-binary ctransformers
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems only
CT_METAL=1 pip install ctransformers --no-binary ctransformers

Simple ctransformers example code

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/Falcon-180B-GGUF", model_file="falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="falcon", gpu_layers=50)

print(llm("AI is going to"))

How to use with LangChain

Here are guides on using llama-cpp-python and ctransformers with LangChain:

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Thanks, and how to contribute

Thanks to the chirper.ai team!

Thanks to Clay from gpus.llm-utils.org!

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If you're able and willing to contribute it will be most gratefully received and will help me to keep providing more models, and to start work on new AI projects.

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Original model card: Technology Innovation Institute's Falcon 180B

πŸš€ Falcon-180B

Falcon-180B is a 180B parameters causal decoder-only model built by TII and trained on 3,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. It is made available under the Falcon-180B TII License and Acceptable Use Policy.

Paper coming soon 😊

πŸ€— To get started with Falcon (inference, finetuning, quantization, etc.), we recommend reading this great blogpost from HF or this one from the release of the 40B! Note that since the 180B is larger than what can easily be handled with transformers+acccelerate, we recommend using Text Generation Inference.

You will need at least 400GB of memory to swiftly run inference with Falcon-180B.

Why use Falcon-180B?

  • It is the best open-access model currently available, and one of the best model overall. Falcon-180B outperforms LLaMA-2, StableLM, RedPajama, MPT, etc. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard.
  • It features an architecture optimized for inference, with multiquery (Shazeer et al., 2019).
  • It is made available under a permissive license allowing for commercial use.
  • ⚠️ This is a raw, pretrained model, which should be further finetuned for most usecases. If you are looking for a version better suited to taking generic instructions in a chat format, we recommend taking a look at Falcon-180B-Chat.

πŸ’Έ Looking for a smaller, less expensive model? Falcon-7B and Falcon-40B are Falcon-180B's little brothers!

πŸ’₯ Falcon LLMs require PyTorch 2.0 for use with transformers!

Model Card for Falcon-180B

Model Details

Model Description

Model Source

  • Paper: coming soon.

Uses

See the acceptable use policy.

Direct Use

Research on large language models; as a foundation for further specialization and finetuning for specific usecases (e.g., summarization, text generation, chatbot, etc.)

Out-of-Scope Use

Production use without adequate assessment of risks and mitigation; any use cases which may be considered irresponsible or harmful.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Falcon-180B is trained mostly on English, German, Spanish, French, with limited capabilities also in in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Czech, Swedish. It will not generalize appropriately to other languages. Furthermore, as it is trained on a large-scale corpora representative of the web, it will carry the stereotypes and biases commonly encountered online.

Recommendations

We recommend users of Falcon-180B to consider finetuning it for the specific set of tasks of interest, and for guardrails and appropriate precautions to be taken for any production use.

How to Get Started with the Model

To run inference with the model in full bfloat16 precision you need approximately 8xA100 80GB or equivalent.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import transformers
import torch

model = "tiiuae/falcon-180b"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    device_map="auto",
)
sequences = pipeline(
   "Girafatron is obsessed with giraffes, the most glorious animal on the face of this Earth. Giraftron believes all other animals are irrelevant when compared to the glorious majesty of the giraffe.\nDaniel: Hello, Girafatron!\nGirafatron:",
    max_length=200,
    do_sample=True,
    top_k=10,
    num_return_sequences=1,
    eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
)
for seq in sequences:
    print(f"Result: {seq['generated_text']}")

Training Details

Training Data

Falcon-180B was trained on 3,500B tokens of RefinedWeb, a high-quality filtered and deduplicated web dataset which we enhanced with curated corpora. Significant components from our curated copora were inspired by The Pile (Gao et al., 2020).

Data source Fraction Tokens Sources
RefinedWeb-English 75% 750B massive web crawl
RefinedWeb-Europe 7% 70B European massive web crawl
Books 6% 60B
Conversations 5% 50B Reddit, StackOverflow, HackerNews
Code 5% 50B
Technical 2% 20B arXiv, PubMed, USPTO, etc.

RefinedWeb-Europe is made of the following languages:

Language Fraction of multilingual data Tokens
German 26% 18B
Spanish 24% 17B
French 23% 16B
Italian 7% 5B
Portuguese 4% 3B
Polish 4% 3B
Dutch 4% 3B
Romanian 3% 2B
Czech 3% 2B
Swedish 2% 1B

The data was tokenized with the Falcon tokenizer.

Training Procedure

Falcon-180B was trained on up to 4,096 A100 40GB GPUs, using a 3D parallelism strategy (TP=8, PP=8, DP=64) combined with ZeRO.

Training Hyperparameters

Hyperparameter Value Comment
Precision bfloat16
Optimizer AdamW
Learning rate 1.25e-4 4B tokens warm-up, cosine decay to 1.25e-5
Weight decay 1e-1
Z-loss 1e-4
Batch size 2048 100B tokens ramp-up

Speeds, Sizes, Times

Training started in early 2023.

Evaluation

Paper coming soon.

See the OpenLLM Leaderboard for early results.

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture and Objective

Falcon-180B is a causal decoder-only model trained on a causal language modeling task (i.e., predict the next token).

The architecture is broadly adapted from the GPT-3 paper (Brown et al., 2020), with the following differences:

For multiquery, we are using an internal variant which uses independent key and values per tensor parallel degree (so-called multigroup).

Hyperparameter Value Comment
Layers 80
d_model 14848
head_dim 64 Reduced to optimise for FlashAttention
Vocabulary 65024
Sequence length 2048

Compute Infrastructure

Hardware

Falcon-180B was trained on AWS SageMaker, on up to 4,096 A100 40GB GPUs in P4d instances.

Software

Falcon-180B was trained a custom distributed training codebase, Gigatron. It uses a 3D parallelism approach combined with ZeRO and high-performance Triton kernels (FlashAttention, etc.)

Citation

Paper coming soon 😊 (actually this time). In the meanwhile, you can use the following information to cite:

@article{falcon,
  title={The Falcon Series of Language Models: Towards Open Frontier Models},
  author={Almazrouei, Ebtesam and Alobeidli, Hamza and Alshamsi, Abdulaziz and Cappelli, Alessandro and Cojocaru, Ruxandra and Alhammadi, Maitha and Daniele, Mazzotta and Heslow, Daniel and Launay, Julien and Malartic, Quentin and Noune, Badreddine and Pannier, Baptiste and Penedo, Guilherme},
  year={2023}
}

To learn more about the pretraining dataset, see the πŸ““ RefinedWeb paper.

@article{refinedweb,
  title={The {R}efined{W}eb dataset for {F}alcon {LLM}: outperforming curated corpora with web data, and web data only},
  author={Guilherme Penedo and Quentin Malartic and Daniel Hesslow and Ruxandra Cojocaru and Alessandro Cappelli and Hamza Alobeidli and Baptiste Pannier and Ebtesam Almazrouei and Julien Launay},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01116},
  eprint={2306.01116},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01116},
  year={2023}
}

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