README.md

---
inference: false
language:
- en
license: other
model_creator: NousResearch
model_link: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-2-7b
model_name: Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B
model_type: llama
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- llama-2
- self-instruct
- distillation
- synthetic instruction
---

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# Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B - GGML
- Model creator: [NousResearch](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch)
- Original model: [Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-2-7b)

## Description

This repo contains GGML format model files for [NousResearch's Nous Hermes Llama 2 7B](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-2-7b).

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), the most popular web UI. Supports NVidia CUDA GPU acceleration.
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp), a powerful GGML web UI with GPU acceleration on all platforms (CUDA and OpenCL). Especially good for story telling.
* [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai/), a fully featured 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 CUDA GPU acceleration via the c_transformers backend.
* [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.

## Repositories available

* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML)
* [NousResearch's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-llama-2-7b)

## Prompt template: Alpaca

```
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction: {prompt}

### Response:
```

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## Compatibility

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

These are guaranteed to be compatible with any UIs, tools and libraries released since late May. They may be phased out soon, as they are largely superseded by the new k-quant methods.

### 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 compatible with llama.cpp as of June 6th, commit `2d43387`.

They are now also compatible with recent releases of text-generation-webui, KoboldCpp, llama-cpp-python, ctransformers, rustformers and most others. For compatibility with other tools and libraries, please check their documentation.

## Explanation of the new k-quant methods
<details>
  <summary>Click to see details</summary>

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.
</details>
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## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin) | q2_K | 2 | 2.87 GB| 5.37 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_L.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_L.bin) | q3_K_L | 3 | 3.60 GB| 6.10 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_M.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_M.bin) | q3_K_M | 3 | 3.28 GB| 5.78 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_S.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q3_K_S.bin) | q3_K_S | 3 | 2.95 GB| 5.45 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q3_K for all tensors |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin) | q4_0 | 4 | 3.79 GB| 6.29 GB | Original quant method, 4-bit. |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin) | q4_1 | 4 | 4.21 GB| 6.71 GB | Original 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin) | q4_K_M | 4 | 4.08 GB| 6.58 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_K_S.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_K_S.bin) | q4_K_S | 4 | 3.83 GB| 6.33 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q4_K for all tensors |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin) | q5_0 | 5 | 4.63 GB| 7.13 GB | Original quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference. |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin) | q5_1 | 5 | 5.06 GB| 7.56 GB | Original quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference. |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_K_M.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_K_M.bin) | q5_K_M | 5 | 4.78 GB| 7.28 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_K_S.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q5_K_S.bin) | q5_K_S | 5 | 4.65 GB| 7.15 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q5_K for all tensors |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin) | q6_K | 6 | 5.53 GB| 8.03 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q8_K for all tensors - 6-bit quantization |
| [nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-Llama-2-7B-GGML/blob/main/nous-hermes-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin) | q8_0 | 8 | 7.16 GB| 9.66 GB | Original 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-llama-2-7b.ggmlv3.q4_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 Llama 2 7B


# Model Card: Nous-Hermes-Llama2-7b

Compute provided by our project sponsor Redmond AI, thank you! Follow RedmondAI on Twitter @RedmondAI.

## Model Description

Nous-Hermes-Llama2-7b 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 leading the fine tuning process and dataset curation, Redmond AI sponsoring the compute, and several other contributors.

This Hermes model uses the exact same dataset as Hermes on Llama-1. This is to ensure consistency between the old Hermes and new, for anyone who wanted to keep Hermes as similar to the old one, just more capable.

This model stands out for its long responses, lower hallucination rate, and absence of OpenAI censorship mechanisms. The fine-tuning process was performed with a 4096 sequence length on an 8x a100 80GB DGX machine.


## Model Training

The model was trained almost entirely on synthetic GPT-4 outputs. Curating high quality GPT-4 datasets enables incredibly high quality in knowledge, task completion, and style.

This includes data from diverse sources such as GPTeacher, the general, roleplay v1&2, code instruct datasets, Nous Instruct & PDACTL (unpublished), and several others, detailed further below

## Collaborators
The model fine-tuning and the datasets were a collaboration of efforts and resources between Teknium, Karan4D, Emozilla, Huemin Art, and Redmond AI. 
  
Special mention goes to @winglian for assisting in some of the training issues.

Huge shoutout and acknowledgement is deserved for all the dataset creators who generously share their datasets openly. 

Among the contributors of datasets:
- GPTeacher was made available by Teknium
- Wizard LM by nlpxucan
- Nous Research Instruct Dataset was provided by Karan4D and HueminArt.  
- GPT4-LLM and Unnatural Instructions were provided by Microsoft
- Airoboros dataset by jondurbin
- Camel-AI's domain expert datasets are from Camel-AI
- 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:
<prompt>

### Response:
<leave a newline blank for model to respond>

```

or 

```
### Instruction:
<prompt>

### Input:
<additional context>

### Response:
<leave a newline blank for model to respond>

```  

## Benchmark Results
Coming soon

## 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 chatbot, check out this: https://github.com/teknium1/alpaca-roleplay-discordbot  

LM Studio is a good choice for a chat interface that supports GGML versions (to come)

## Future Plans
We plan to continue to iterate on both more high quality data, and new data filtering techniques to eliminate lower quality data going forward. 

## 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.