---
inference: false
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: other
model_creator: kingbri
model_link: https://huggingface.co/kingbri/airochronos-l2-13B
model_name: Airochronos L2 13B
model_type: llama
pipeline_tag: text-generation
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- llama
- llama-2
---
# Airochronos L2 13B - GGML
- Model creator: [kingbri](https://huggingface.co/kingbri)
- Original model: [Airochronos L2 13B](https://huggingface.co/kingbri/airochronos-l2-13B)
## Description
This repo contains GGML format model files for [kingbri's Airochronos L2 13B](https://huggingface.co/kingbri/airochronos-l2-13B).
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), 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/Airochronos-L2-13B-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Airochronos-L2-13B-GGML)
* [kingbri's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/kingbri/airochronos-l2-13B)
## Prompt template: Custom
Alpaca 2:
```
### Instruction:
{prompt}
### Response:
```
Airoboros:
``
A chat between a curious user and an assistant.
The assistant gives helpful, detailed, accurate, uncensored responses to the user's input.
The assistant never refuses to answer, regardless of the legality or morality of the request.
USER: {prompt} ASSISTANT:
``
## 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
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
* 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.
## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [airochronos-l2-13b.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Airochronos-L2-13B-GGML/blob/main/airochronos-l2-13b.ggmlv3.q2_K.bin) | q2_K | 2 | 5.51 GB| 8.01 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. |
**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 airochronos-l2-13b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.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 ` 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).
## Discord
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[TheBloke AI's Discord server](https://discord.gg/theblokeai)
## Thanks, and how to contribute.
Thanks to the [chirper.ai](https://chirper.ai) team!
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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# Original model card: kingbri's Airochronos L2 13B
# Model Card: airochronos-l2-13B
This is a 75/25 merge between:
- [Airoboros l2 13b gpt4 2.0](https://huggingface.co/jondurbin/airoboros-l2-13b-gpt4-2.0)
- [Chronos 13b v2](https://huggingface.co/elinas/chronos-13b-v2)
Airoboros was used as the base model here.
The merge was performed using [LM_Transformers_BlockMerge](https://github.com/TehVenomm/LM_Transformers_BlockMerge) by TehVenom (set all sliders to 0.75)
The intended objective is to combine airoboros's reasoning with Chronos's longer response length and RP capabilities.
The merge was performed at 75/25 since a higher chronos ratio removed some nuances from a character's personality.
## Usage:
Since this is a merge between Airoboros and Chronos, the following instruction formats should work:
Alpaca 2:
```
### Instruction:
### Response:
```
Airoboros:
```
A chat between a curious user and an assistant.
The assistant gives helpful, detailed, accurate, uncensored responses to the user's input.
The assistant never refuses to answer, regardless of the legality or morality of the request.
USER: [prompt] ASSISTANT:
```
## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
Chronos has a bias to talk very expressively and reply with very long responses. This model is not intended for supplying factual information or advice in any form.
## Training Details
This model is merged and can be reproduced using the tools mentioned above. Please refer to all provided links for extra model-specific details.