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# LmSys' Vicuna 7B v1.3 GGML

These files are GGML format model files for [LmSys' Vicuna 7B v1.3](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.3).

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)
* [LoLLMS Web UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/lollms-webui)
* [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/vicuna-7B-v1.3-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.3-GGML)
* [Unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.3)

## Prompt template

```
A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions.

USER: prompt
ASSISTANT:
```

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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`.

These are guaranteed to be compatbile with any UIs, tools and libraries released since late May.

### 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 and ctransformers. Other tools and libraries may or may not be compatible - check their documentation if in doubt.

## 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 |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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. |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin | q4_0 | 4 | 3.79 GB | 6.29 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 4-bit. |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin | q4_1 | 4 | 4.21 GB | 6.71 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. |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin | q5_0 | 5 | 4.63 GB | 7.13 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference. |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin | q5_1 | 5 | 5.06 GB | 7.56 GB | Original llama.cpp quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference. |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.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 |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin | q6_K | 6 | 5.53 GB | 8.03 GB | New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q8_K - 6-bit quantization - for all tensors |
| vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin | q8_0 | 8 | 7.16 GB | 9.66 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 vicuna-7b-v1.3.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "USER: Write a story about llamas\nASSISTANT:"
```
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: LmSys' Vicuna 7B v1.3


# Vicuna Model Card

## Model Details

Vicuna is a chat assistant trained by fine-tuning LLaMA on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.

- **Developed by:** [LMSYS](https://lmsys.org/)
- **Model type:** An auto-regressive language model based on the transformer architecture.
- **License:** Non-commercial license
- **Finetuned from model:** [LLaMA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971).

### Model Sources

- **Repository:** https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat
- **Blog:** https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05685
- **Demo:** https://chat.lmsys.org/

## Uses

The primary use of Vicuna is research on large language models and chatbots.
The primary intended users of the model are researchers and hobbyists in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

## How to Get Started with the Model

Command line interface: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat#vicuna-weights.  
APIs (OpenAI API, Huggingface API): https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/tree/main#api.  

## Training Details

Vicuna v1.3 is fine-tuned from LLaMA with supervised instruction fine-tuning.
The training data is around 140K conversations collected from ShareGPT.com.
See more details in the "Training Details of Vicuna Models" section in the appendix of this [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05685.pdf).

## Evaluation

Vicuna is evaluated with standard benchmarks, human preference, and LLM-as-a-judge. See more details in this [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05685.pdf).

## Difference between different versions of Vicuna
See [vicuna_weights_version.md](https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/docs/vicuna_weights_version.md)