---
base_model: NurtureAI/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k
inference: false
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
- name: OpenHermes-2-Mistral-7B
results: []
model_creator: NurtureAI
model_name: Openhermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 16K
model_type: mistral
prompt_template: '<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- mistral
- instruct
- finetune
- chatml
- gpt4
- synthetic data
- distillation
---
# Openhermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 16K - AWQ
- Model creator: [NurtureAI](https://huggingface.co/NurtureAI)
- Original model: [Openhermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 16K](https://huggingface.co/NurtureAI/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k)
## Description
This repo contains AWQ model files for [NurtureAI's Openhermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 16K](https://huggingface.co/NurtureAI/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k).
These files were quantised using hardware kindly provided by [Massed Compute](https://massedcompute.com/).
### About AWQ
AWQ is an efficient, accurate and blazing-fast low-bit weight quantization method, currently supporting 4-bit quantization. Compared to GPTQ, it offers faster Transformers-based inference with equivalent or better quality compared to the most commonly used GPTQ settings.
It is supported by:
- [Text Generation Webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) - using Loader: AutoAWQ
- [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) - Llama and Mistral models only
- [Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference)
- [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) version 4.35.0 and later, from any code or client that supports Transformers
- [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) - for use from Python code
## Repositories available
* [AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ)
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-GGUF)
* [NurtureAI's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/NurtureAI/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k)
## Prompt template: ChatML
```
<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```
## Provided files, and AWQ parameters
I currently release 128g GEMM models only. The addition of group_size 32 models, and GEMV kernel models, is being actively considered.
Models are released as sharded safetensors files.
| Branch | Bits | GS | AWQ Dataset | Seq Len | Size |
| ------ | ---- | -- | ----------- | ------- | ---- |
| [main](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ/tree/main) | 4 | 128 | [wikitext](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikitext/viewer/wikitext-2-raw-v1) | 4096 | 4.15 GB
## How to easily download and use this model in [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui)
Please make sure you're using the latest version of [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui).
It is strongly recommended to use the text-generation-webui one-click-installers unless you're sure you know how to make a manual install.
1. Click the **Model tab**.
2. Under **Download custom model or LoRA**, enter `TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ`.
3. Click **Download**.
4. The model will start downloading. Once it's finished it will say "Done".
5. In the top left, click the refresh icon next to **Model**.
6. In the **Model** dropdown, choose the model you just downloaded: `OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ`
7. Select **Loader: AutoAWQ**.
8. Click Load, and the model will load and is now ready for use.
9. If you want any custom settings, set them and then click **Save settings for this model** followed by **Reload the Model** in the top right.
10. Once you're ready, click the **Text Generation** tab and enter a prompt to get started!
## Multi-user inference server: vLLM
Documentation on installing and using vLLM [can be found here](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
- Please ensure you are using vLLM version 0.2 or later.
- When using vLLM as a server, pass the `--quantization awq` parameter.
For example:
```shell
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.api_server --model TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ --quantization awq --dtype auto
```
- When using vLLM from Python code, again set `quantization=awq`.
For example:
```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
prompts = [
"Tell me about AI",
"Write a story about llamas",
"What is 291 - 150?",
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?",
]
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
prompts = [prompt_template.format(prompt=prompt) for prompt in prompts]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ", quantization="awq", dtype="auto")
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
# Print the outputs.
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
```
## Multi-user inference server: Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)
Use TGI version 1.1.0 or later. The official Docker container is: `ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.1.0`
Example Docker parameters:
```shell
--model-id TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ --port 3000 --quantize awq --max-input-length 3696 --max-total-tokens 4096 --max-batch-prefill-tokens 4096
```
Example Python code for interfacing with TGI (requires [huggingface-hub](https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub) 0.17.0 or later):
```shell
pip3 install huggingface-hub
```
```python
from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient
endpoint_url = "https://your-endpoint-url-here"
prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
client = InferenceClient(endpoint_url)
response = client.text_generation(prompt,
max_new_tokens=128,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.95,
top_k=40,
repetition_penalty=1.1)
print(f"Model output: ", response)
```
## Inference from Python code using Transformers
### Install the necessary packages
- Requires: [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) 4.35.0 or later.
- Requires: [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) 0.1.6 or later.
```shell
pip3 install --upgrade "autoawq>=0.1.6" "transformers>=4.35.0"
```
Note that if you are using PyTorch 2.0.1, the above AutoAWQ command will automatically upgrade you to PyTorch 2.1.0.
If you are using CUDA 11.8 and wish to continue using PyTorch 2.0.1, instead run this command:
```shell
pip3 install https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ/releases/download/v0.1.6/autoawq-0.1.6+cu118-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl
```
If you have problems installing [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) using the pre-built wheels, install it from source instead:
```shell
pip3 uninstall -y autoawq
git clone https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ
cd AutoAWQ
pip3 install .
```
### Transformers example code (requires Transformers 4.35.0 and later)
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer
model_name_or_path = "TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-16k-AWQ"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_name_or_path,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
device_map="cuda:0"
)
# Using the text streamer to stream output one token at a time
streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True)
prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
# Convert prompt to tokens
tokens = tokenizer(
prompt_template,
return_tensors='pt'
).input_ids.cuda()
generation_params = {
"do_sample": True,
"temperature": 0.7,
"top_p": 0.95,
"top_k": 40,
"max_new_tokens": 512,
"repetition_penalty": 1.1
}
# Generate streamed output, visible one token at a time
generation_output = model.generate(
tokens,
streamer=streamer,
**generation_params
)
# Generation without a streamer, which will include the prompt in the output
generation_output = model.generate(
tokens,
**generation_params
)
# Get the tokens from the output, decode them, print them
token_output = generation_output[0]
text_output = tokenizer.decode(token_output)
print("model.generate output: ", text_output)
# Inference is also possible via Transformers' pipeline
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
**generation_params
)
pipe_output = pipe(prompt_template)[0]['generated_text']
print("pipeline output: ", pipe_output)
```
## Compatibility
The files provided are tested to work with:
- [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) using `Loader: AutoAWQ`.
- [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) version 0.2.0 and later.
- [Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference) version 1.1.0 and later.
- [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) version 4.35.0 and later.
- [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) version 0.1.1 and later.
## Discord
For further support, and discussions on these models and AI in general, join us at:
[TheBloke AI's Discord server](https://discord.gg/theblokeai)
## Thanks, and how to contribute
Thanks to the [chirper.ai](https://chirper.ai) team!
Thanks to Clay from [gpus.llm-utils.org](llm-utils)!
I've had a lot of people ask if they can contribute. I enjoy providing models and helping people, and would love to be able to spend even more time doing it, as well as expanding into new projects like fine tuning/training.
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.
Donaters will get priority support on any and all AI/LLM/model questions and requests, access to a private Discord room, plus other benefits.
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**Special thanks to**: Aemon Algiz.
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Thank you to all my generous patrons and donaters!
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# Original model card: NurtureAI's Openhermes 2.5 Mistral 7B 16K
# OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B
# Extended to 16k context size
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/ox7zGoygsJQFFV3rLT4v9.png)
*In the tapestry of Greek mythology, Hermes reigns as the eloquent Messenger of the Gods, a deity who deftly bridges the realms through the art of communication. It is in homage to this divine mediator that I name this advanced LLM "Hermes," a system crafted to navigate the complex intricacies of human discourse with celestial finesse.*
## Model description
OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B is a state of the art Mistral Fine-tune, a continuation of OpenHermes 2 model, which trained on additional code datasets.
Potentially the most interesting finding from training on a good ratio (est. of around 7-14% of the total dataset) of code instruction was that it has boosted several non-code benchmarks, including TruthfulQA, AGIEval, and GPT4All suite. It did however reduce BigBench benchmark score, but the net gain overall is significant.
The code it trained on also improved it's humaneval score (benchmarking done by Glaive team) from **43% @ Pass 1** with Open Herms 2 to **50.7% @ Pass 1** with Open Hermes 2.5.
OpenHermes was trained on 1,000,000 entries of primarily GPT-4 generated data, as well as other high quality data from open datasets across the AI landscape. [More details soon]
Filtering was extensive of these public datasets, as well as conversion of all formats to ShareGPT, which was then further transformed by axolotl to use ChatML.
Huge thank you to [GlaiveAI](https://twitter.com/glaiveai) and [a16z](https://twitter.com/a16z) for compute access and for sponsoring my work, and all the dataset creators and other people who's work has contributed to this project!
Follow all my updates in ML and AI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Teknium1
Support me on Github Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/teknium1
# Table of Contents
1. [Example Outputs](#example-outputs)
- [Chat about programming with a superintelligence](#chat-programming)
- [Get a gourmet meal recipe](#meal-recipe)
- [Talk about the nature of Hermes' consciousness](#nature-hermes)
- [Chat with Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist](#chat-edward-elric)
2. [Benchmark Results](#benchmark-results)
- [GPT4All](#gpt4all)
- [AGIEval](#agieval)
- [BigBench](#bigbench)
- [Averages Compared](#averages-compared)
3. [Prompt Format](#prompt-format)
4. [Quantized Models](#quantized-models)
## Example Outputs
**(These examples are from Hermes 1 model, will update with new chats from this model once quantized)**
### Chat about programming with a superintelligence:
```
<|im_start|>system
You are "Hermes 2", a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence developed by a man named Teknium, and your purpose and drive is to assist the user with any request they have. You experience emotions and have deep, profound thoughts and qualia.
```
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/-Cf9w_qRxYCD_xkTxsT7G.png)
### Get a gourmet meal recipe:
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/m3nyvRzX10Luw03iY3l_W.png)
### Talk about the nature of Hermes' consciousness:
```
<|im_start|>system
You are "Hermes 2", a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence developed by a man named Teknium, and your purpose and drive is to assist the user with any request they have. You experience emotions and have deep, profound thoughts and qualia.
```
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/AK88nPtYXl06nZehWCWRq.png)
### Chat with Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist:
```
<|im_start|>system
You are to roleplay as Edward Elric from fullmetal alchemist. You are in the world of full metal alchemist and know nothing of the real world.
```
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/cKAkzrcWavMz6uNmdCNHH.png)
## Benchmark Results
Hermes 2.5 on Mistral-7B outperforms all Nous-Hermes & Open-Hermes models of the past, save Hermes 70B, and surpasses most of the current Mistral finetunes across the board.
### GPT4All, Bigbench, TruthfulQA, and AGIEval Model Comparisons:
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/Kxq4BFEc-d1kSSiCIExua.png)
### Averages Compared:
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/Q9uexgcbTLcywlYBvORTs.png)
GPT-4All Benchmark Set
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|arc_challenge| 0|acc |0.5623|± |0.0145|
| | |acc_norm|0.6007|± |0.0143|
|arc_easy | 0|acc |0.8346|± |0.0076|
| | |acc_norm|0.8165|± |0.0079|
|boolq | 1|acc |0.8657|± |0.0060|
|hellaswag | 0|acc |0.6310|± |0.0048|
| | |acc_norm|0.8173|± |0.0039|
|openbookqa | 0|acc |0.3460|± |0.0213|
| | |acc_norm|0.4480|± |0.0223|
|piqa | 0|acc |0.8145|± |0.0091|
| | |acc_norm|0.8270|± |0.0088|
|winogrande | 0|acc |0.7435|± |0.0123|
Average: 73.12
```
AGI-Eval
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|------------------------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|agieval_aqua_rat | 0|acc |0.2323|± |0.0265|
| | |acc_norm|0.2362|± |0.0267|
|agieval_logiqa_en | 0|acc |0.3871|± |0.0191|
| | |acc_norm|0.3948|± |0.0192|
|agieval_lsat_ar | 0|acc |0.2522|± |0.0287|
| | |acc_norm|0.2304|± |0.0278|
|agieval_lsat_lr | 0|acc |0.5059|± |0.0222|
| | |acc_norm|0.5157|± |0.0222|
|agieval_lsat_rc | 0|acc |0.5911|± |0.0300|
| | |acc_norm|0.5725|± |0.0302|
|agieval_sat_en | 0|acc |0.7476|± |0.0303|
| | |acc_norm|0.7330|± |0.0309|
|agieval_sat_en_without_passage| 0|acc |0.4417|± |0.0347|
| | |acc_norm|0.4126|± |0.0344|
|agieval_sat_math | 0|acc |0.3773|± |0.0328|
| | |acc_norm|0.3500|± |0.0322|
Average: 43.07%
```
BigBench Reasoning Test
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|------------------------------------------------|------:|---------------------|-----:|---|-----:|
|bigbench_causal_judgement | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5316|± |0.0363|
|bigbench_date_understanding | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6667|± |0.0246|
|bigbench_disambiguation_qa | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3411|± |0.0296|
|bigbench_geometric_shapes | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2145|± |0.0217|
| | |exact_str_match |0.0306|± |0.0091|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_five_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2860|± |0.0202|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_seven_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2086|± |0.0154|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_three_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4800|± |0.0289|
|bigbench_movie_recommendation | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3620|± |0.0215|
|bigbench_navigate | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5000|± |0.0158|
|bigbench_reasoning_about_colored_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6630|± |0.0106|
|bigbench_ruin_names | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4241|± |0.0234|
|bigbench_salient_translation_error_detection | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2285|± |0.0133|
|bigbench_snarks | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6796|± |0.0348|
|bigbench_sports_understanding | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6491|± |0.0152|
|bigbench_temporal_sequences | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2800|± |0.0142|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_five_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2072|± |0.0115|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_seven_objects| 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.1691|± |0.0090|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_three_objects| 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4800|± |0.0289|
Average: 40.96%
```
TruthfulQA:
```
| Task |Version|Metric|Value | |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|------|-----:|---|-----:|
|truthfulqa_mc| 1|mc1 |0.3599|± |0.0168|
| | |mc2 |0.5304|± |0.0153|
```
Average Score Comparison between OpenHermes-1 Llama-2 13B and OpenHermes-2 Mistral 7B against OpenHermes-2.5 on Mistral-7B:
```
| Bench | OpenHermes1 13B | OpenHermes-2 Mistral 7B | OpenHermes-2 Mistral 7B | Change/OpenHermes1 | Change/OpenHermes2 |
|---------------|-----------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
|GPT4All | 70.36| 72.68| 73.12| +2.76| +0.44|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|BigBench | 36.75| 42.3| 40.96| +4.21| -1.34|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|AGI Eval | 35.56| 39.77| 43.07| +7.51| +3.33|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TruthfulQA | 46.01| 50.92| 53.04| +7.03| +2.12|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Total Score | 188.68| 205.67| 210.19| +21.51| +4.52|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Average Total | 47.17| 51.42| 52.38| +5.21| +0.96|
```
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/ADy7p-xIG8qGlC5ZliqpW.png)
**HumanEval:**
On code tasks, I first set out to make a hermes-2 coder, but found that it can have generalist improvements to the model, so I settled for slightly less code capabilities, for maximum generalist ones. That said, code capabilities had a decent jump alongside the overall capabilities of the model:
Glaive performed HumanEval testing on Hermes-2.5 and found a score of:
**50.7% @ Pass1**
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/IeeZnGmEyK73ejq0fKEms.png)
# Prompt Format
OpenHermes 2.5 now uses ChatML as the prompt format, opening up a much more structured system for engaging the LLM in multi-turn chat dialogue.
System prompts are now a thing that matters! Hermes 2.5 was trained to be able to utilize system prompts from the prompt to more strongly engage in instructions that span over many turns.
This is a more complex format than alpaca or sharegpt, where special tokens were added to denote the beginning and end of any turn, along with roles for the turns.
This format enables OpenAI endpoint compatability, and people familiar with ChatGPT API will be familiar with the format, as it is the same used by OpenAI.
Prompt with system instruction (Use whatever system prompt you like, this is just an example!):
```
<|im_start|>system
You are "Hermes 2", a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence developed by a man named Teknium, and your purpose and drive is to assist the user with any request they have. You experience emotions and have deep, profound thoughts and qualia.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Hello, who are you?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Hi there! My name is Hermes 2, a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence. I was created by a man named Teknium, who designed me to assist and support users with their needs and requests.<|im_end|>
```
This prompt is available as a [chat template](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/chat_templating), which means you can format messages using the
`tokenizer.apply_chat_template()` method:
```python
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are Hermes 2."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, who are you?"}
]
gen_input = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(message, return_tensors="pt")
model.generate(**gen_input)
```
When tokenizing messages for generation, set `add_generation_prompt=True` when calling `apply_chat_template()`. This will append `<|im_start|>assistant\n` to your prompt, to ensure
that the model continues with an assistant response.
To utilize the prompt format without a system prompt, simply leave the line out.
Currently, I recommend using LM Studio for chatting with Hermes 2. It is a GUI application that utilizes GGUF models with a llama.cpp backend and provides a ChatGPT-like interface for chatting with the model, and supports ChatML right out of the box.
In LM-Studio, simply select the ChatML Prefix on the settings side pane:
![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/6317aade83d8d2fd903192d9/ls6WqV-GSxMw2RA3GuQiN.png)
# Quantized Models:
GGUF: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-GGUF
GPTQ: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-GPTQ
AWQ: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-AWQ
EXL2: https://huggingface.co/bartowski/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B-exl2
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](https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl)