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# NousResearch's Nous-Hermes-13B GGML

These files are GGML format model files for [NousResearch's Nous-Hermes-13B](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-13b).

GGML files are for CPU + GPU inference using [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) and libraries and UIs which support this format, such as:
* [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui)
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp)
* [ParisNeo/GPT4All-UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/gpt4all-ui)
* [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python)
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers)

## Repositories available

* [4-bit GPTQ models for GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-13B-GPTQ)
* [4-bit, 5-bit, and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-13B-GGML)
* [Unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-13b)

## Prompt Template

The model follows the Alpaca prompt format:
```
### Instruction:

### Response:
```

or 

```
### Instruction:

### Input:

### Response:
```

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## Compatibility

### Original llama.cpp quant methods: `q4_0, q4_1, q5_0, q5_1, q8_0`

I have quantized these 'original' quantisation methods using an older version of llama.cpp so that they remain compatible with llama.cpp as of May 19th, commit `2d5db48`.

They should be compatible with all current UIs and libraries that use llama.cpp, such as those listed at the top of this README.

### New k-quant methods: `q2_K, q3_K_S, q3_K_M, q3_K_L, q4_K_S, q4_K_M, q5_K_S, q6_K`

These new quantisation methods are only compatible with llama.cpp as of June 6th, commit `2d43387`.

They will NOT be compatible with koboldcpp, text-generation-ui, and other UIs and libraries yet. Support is expected to come over the next few days.

## Explanation of the new k-quant methods

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
* GGML_TYPE_Q8_K - "type-0" 8-bit quantization. Only used for quantizing intermediate results. The difference to the existing Q8_0 is that the block size is 256. All 2-6 bit dot products are implemented for this quantization type.

Refer to the Provided Files table below to see what files use which methods, and how.
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## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin | q2_K | 2 | 5.43 GB | 7.93 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for the attention.vw and feed_forward.w2 tensors, GGML_TYPE_Q2_K for the other tensors. |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q3_K_L.bin | q3_K_L | 3 | 6.87 GB | 9.37 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q5_K for the attention.wv, attention.wo, and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q3_K |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q3_K_M.bin | q3_K_M | 3 | 6.25 GB | 8.75 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for the attention.wv, attention.wo, and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q3_K |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q3_K_S.bin | q3_K_S | 3 | 5.59 GB | 8.09 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q3_K for all tensors |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin | q4_0 | 4 | 7.32 GB | 9.82 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 4-bit. |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin | q4_1 | 4 | 8.14 GB | 10.64 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 4-bit. Higher accuracy than q4_0 but not as high as q5_0. However has quicker inference than q5 models. |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin | q4_K_M | 4 | 7.82 GB | 10.32 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q6_K for half of the attention.wv and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q4_K |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q4_K_S.bin | q4_K_S | 4 | 7.32 GB | 9.82 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for all tensors |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin | q5_0 | 5 | 8.95 GB | 11.45 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference. |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin | q5_1 | 5 | 9.76 GB | 12.26 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference. |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q5_K_M.bin | q5_K_M | 5 | 9.21 GB | 11.71 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q6_K for half of the attention.wv and feed_forward.w2 tensors, else GGML_TYPE_Q5_K |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q5_K_S.bin | q5_K_S | 5 | 8.95 GB | 11.45 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q5_K for all tensors |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin | q6_K | 6 | 10.68 GB | 13.18 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q8_K - 6-bit quantization - for all tensors |
| nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin | q8_0 | 8 | 13.83 GB | 16.33 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 8-bit. Almost indistinguishable from float16. High resource use and slow. Not recommended for most users. |


**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.

## How to run in `llama.cpp`

I use the following command line; adjust for your tastes and needs:

```
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m nous-hermes-13b.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "### Instruction: Write a story about llamas\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`.

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

If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p <PROMPT>` argument with `-i -ins`

## How to run in `text-generation-webui`

Further instructions here: [text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp-models.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/llama.cpp-models.md).

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# Original model card: NousResearch's Nous-Hermes-13B


# Model Card: Nous-Hermes-13b

## Model Description

Nous-Hermes-13b is a state-of-the-art language model fine-tuned on over 300,000 instructions. This model was fine-tuned by Nous Research, with Teknium and Karan4D leading the fine tuning process and dataset curation, Redmond AI sponsoring the compute, and several other contributors. The result is an enhanced Llama 13b model that rivals GPT-3.5-turbo in performance across a variety of tasks.

This model stands out for its long responses, low hallucination rate, and absence of OpenAI censorship mechanisms. The fine-tuning process was performed with a 2000 sequence length on an 8x a100 80GB DGX machine for over 50 hours. 

## Model Training

The model was trained almost entirely on synthetic GPT-4 outputs. This includes data from diverse sources such as GPTeacher, the general, roleplay v1&2, code instruct datasets, Nous Instruct & PDACTL (unpublished), CodeAlpaca, Evol_Instruct Uncensored, GPT4-LLM, and Unnatural Instructions. 

Additional data inputs came from Camel-AI's Biology/Physics/Chemistry and Math Datasets, Airoboros' GPT-4 Dataset, and more from CodeAlpaca. The total volume of data encompassed over 300,000 instructions.

## Collaborators
The model fine-tuning and the datasets were a collaboration of efforts and resources between Teknium, Karan4D, Nous Research, Huemin Art, and Redmond AI. 
  
Huge shoutout and acknowledgement is deserved for all the dataset creators who generously share their datasets openly. 

Special mention goes to @winglian, @erhartford, and @main_horse for assisting in some of the training issues.

Among the contributors of datasets, GPTeacher was made available by Teknium, Wizard LM by nlpxucan, and the Nous Research Instruct Dataset was provided by Karan4D and HueminArt.  
The GPT4-LLM and Unnatural Instructions were provided by Microsoft, Airoboros dataset by jondurbin, Camel-AI datasets are from Camel-AI, and CodeAlpaca dataset by Sahil 2801.
If anyone was left out, please open a thread in the community tab.

## Prompt Format

The model follows the Alpaca prompt format:
```
### Instruction:

### Response:
```

or 

```
### Instruction:

### Input:

### Response:
```  

## Resources for Applied Use Cases:
For an example of a back and forth chatbot using huggingface transformers and discord, check out: https://github.com/teknium1/alpaca-discord  
For an example of a roleplaying discord bot, check out this: https://github.com/teknium1/alpaca-roleplay-discordbot  

## Future Plans
The model is currently being uploaded in FP16 format, and there are plans to convert the model to GGML and GPTQ 4bit quantizations. The team is also working on a full benchmark, similar to what was done for GPT4-x-Vicuna. We will try to get in discussions to get the model included in the GPT4All.

## Benchmark Results
```
|    Task     |Version| Metric |Value |   |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|arc_challenge|      0|acc     |0.4915|±  |0.0146|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.5085|±  |0.0146|
|arc_easy     |      0|acc     |0.7769|±  |0.0085|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.7424|±  |0.0090|
|boolq        |      1|acc     |0.7948|±  |0.0071|
|hellaswag    |      0|acc     |0.6143|±  |0.0049|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.8000|±  |0.0040|
|openbookqa   |      0|acc     |0.3560|±  |0.0214|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.4640|±  |0.0223|
|piqa         |      0|acc     |0.7965|±  |0.0094|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.7889|±  |0.0095|
|winogrande   |      0|acc     |0.7190|±  |0.0126|
```

These benchmarks currently have us at #1 on ARC-c, ARC-e, Hellaswag, and OpenBookQA, and 2nd place on Winogrande, comparing to GPT4all's benchmarking list. 

## Model Usage
The model is available for download on Hugging Face. It is suitable for a wide range of language tasks, from generating creative text to understanding and following complex instructions.
  
Compute provided by our project sponsor Redmond AI, thank you!!