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license: other
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# StableVicuna-13B-GGML

This is an HF format unquantised model of [CarterAI's StableVicuna 13B](https://huggingface.co/CarperAI/stable-vicuna-13b-delta).

It is the result of merging the deltas from the above repository with the original Llama 13B weights, and then quantising to 4bit and 5bit GGML for CPU inference using [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp).

## Repositories available

* [4bit GPTQ models for GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stable-vicuna-13B-GPTQ).
* [4bit and 5bit GGML models for CPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stable-vicuna-13B-GGML).
* [Unquantised 16bit model in HF format](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stable-vicuna-13B-HF).

## PROMPT TEMPLATE

This model works best with the following prompt template:

```
### Human: your prompt here
### Assistant:
```

## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
`stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q4_0.bin` | q4_0 | 4bit | 8.14GB | 10.5GB | Maximum compatibility |
`stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q4_2.bin` | q4_2 | 4bit | 8.14GB | 10.5GB | Best compromise between resources, speed and quality |
`stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q4_3.bin` | q4_3 | 4bit | 9.76GB | 12.25GB | Maximum quality 4bit, higher RAM requirements and slower inference |
`stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q5_0.bin` | q5_0 | 5bit | 8.95GB | 11.0GB | Brand new 5bit method. Potentially higher quality than 4bit, at cost of slightly higher resources. |
`stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q5_1.bin` | q5_1 | 5bit | 9.76GB | 12.25GB | Brand new 5bit method. Slightly higher resource usage than q5_0.|

* The q4_0 file provides lower quality, but maximal compatibility. It will work with past and future versions of llama.cpp
* The q4_2 file offers the best combination of performance and quality. This format is still subject to change and there may be compatibility issues, see below.
* The q4_3 file offers the highest quality, at the cost of increased RAM usage and slower inference speed. This format is still subject to change and there may be compatibility issues, see below.
* The q5_0 file is using brand new 5bit method released 26th April. This is the 5bit equivalent of q4_0.
* The q5_1 file is using brand new 5bit method released 26th April. This is the 5bit equivalent of q4_1.

## q4_2 and q4_3 compatibility

q4_2 and q4_3 are new 4bit quantisation methods offering improved quality. However they are still under development and their formats are subject to change.

In order to use these files you will need to use recent llama.cpp code. And it's possible that future updates to llama.cpp could require that these files are re-generated.

If and when the q4_2 and q4_3 files no longer work with recent versions of llama.cpp I will endeavour to update them.

If you want to ensure guaranteed compatibility with a wide range of llama.cpp versions, use the q4_0 file.

## q5_0 and q5_1 compatibility

These new methods were released to llama.cpp on 26th April. You will need to pull the latest llama.cpp code and rebuild to be able to use them.

Don't expect any third-party UIs/tools to support them yet.

## How to run in `llama.cpp`

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

```
./main -t 18 -m stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q4_2.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -r "### Human:" -i
```
Change `-t 18` to the number of physical CPU cores you have. For example if your system has 8 cores/16 threads, use `-t 8`.

If you want to enter a prompt from the command line, use `-p <PROMPT>` like so: 

```
./main -t 18 -m stable-vicuna-13B.ggml.q4_2.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -r "### Human:" -p "### Human: write a story about llamas ### Assistant:"
```

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

GGML models can be loaded into text-generation-webui by installing the llama.cpp module, then placing the ggml model file in a model folder as usual.

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).

Note: at this time text-generation-webui will not support the new q5 quantisation methods.

**Thireus** has written a [great guide on how to update it to the latest llama.cpp code](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/wizardLM-7B-GGML/discussions/5) so that these files can be used in the UI.

# Original StableVicuna-13B model card

## Model Description

StableVicuna-13B is a [Vicuna-13B v0](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0) model fine-tuned using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) via Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) on various conversational and instructional datasets.

## Model Details

* **Trained by**: [Duy Phung](https://github.com/PhungVanDuy) of [CarperAI](https://carper.ai)
* **Model type:**  **StableVicuna-13B** is an auto-regressive language model based on the LLaMA transformer architecture.
* **Language(s)**: English
* **Library**: [trlX](https://github.com/CarperAI/trlx)
* **License for delta weights**: [CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
  * *Note*: License for the base LLaMA model's weights is Meta's [non-commercial bespoke license](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md).
* **Contact**: For questions and comments about the model, visit the [CarperAI](https://discord.com/invite/KgfkCVYHdu) and [StableFoundation](https://discord.gg/stablediffusion) Discord servers.

| Hyperparameter            | Value |
|---------------------------|-------|
| \\(n_\text{parameters}\\) | 13B   |
| \\(d_\text{model}\\)      | 5120  |
| \\(n_\text{layers}\\)     | 40    |
| \\(n_\text{heads}\\)      | 40    |

## Training

### Training Dataset

StableVicuna-13B is fine-tuned on a mix of three datasets. [OpenAssistant Conversations Dataset (OASST1)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1), a human-generated, human-annotated assistant-style conversation corpus consisting of 161,443 messages distributed across 66,497 conversation trees, in 35 different languages;
[GPT4All Prompt Generations](https://huggingface.co/datasets/nomic-ai/gpt4all_prompt_generations), a dataset of 400k prompts and responses generated by GPT-4; and [Alpaca](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tatsu-lab/alpaca),  a dataset of 52,000 instructions and demonstrations generated by OpenAI's text-davinci-003 engine.

The reward model used during RLHF was also trained on [OpenAssistant Conversations Dataset (OASST1)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1) along with two other datasets: [Anthropic HH-RLHF](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Anthropic/hh-rlhf), a dataset of preferences about AI assistant helpfulness and harmlessness; and [Stanford Human Preferences Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/stanfordnlp/SHP) a dataset of 385K collective human preferences over responses to questions/instructions in 18 different subject areas, from cooking to legal advice.

### Training Procedure

`CarperAI/stable-vicuna-13b-delta` was trained using PPO as implemented in [`trlX`](https://github.com/CarperAI/trlx/blob/main/trlx/trainer/accelerate_ppo_trainer.py) with the following configuration:

|  Hyperparameter   |  Value  |
|-------------------|---------|
| num_rollouts      | 128     |
| chunk_size        | 16      |
| ppo_epochs        | 4       |
| init_kl_coef      | 0.1     |
| target            | 6       |
| horizon           | 10000   |
| gamma             | 1       |
| lam               | 0.95    |
| cliprange         | 0.2     |
| cliprange_value   | 0.2     |
| vf_coef           | 1.0     |
| scale_reward      | None    |
| cliprange_reward  | 10      |
| generation_kwargs |         |
| max_length        | 512     |
| min_length        | 48      |
| top_k             | 0.0     |
| top_p             | 1.0     |
| do_sample         | True    |
| temperature       | 1.0     |

## Use and Limitations

### Intended Use

This model is intended to be used for text generation with a focus on conversational tasks. Users may further fine-tune the model on their own data to improve the model's performance on their specific tasks in accordance with the non-commercial [license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

### Limitations and bias

The base LLaMA model is trained on various data, some of which may contain offensive, harmful, and biased content that can lead to toxic behavior. See Section 5.1 of the LLaMA [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971). We have not performed any studies to determine how fine-tuning on the aforementioned datasets affect the model's behavior and toxicity. Do not treat chat responses from this model as a substitute for human judgment or as a source of truth. Please use responsibly.

## Acknowledgements

This work would not have been possible without the support of [Stability AI](https://stability.ai/).

## Citations

```bibtex
@article{touvron2023llama,
  title={LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models},
  author={Touvron, Hugo and Lavril, Thibaut and Izacard, Gautier and Martinet, Xavier and Lachaux, Marie-Anne and Lacroix, Timoth{\'e}e and Rozi{\`e}re, Baptiste and Goyal, Naman and Hambro, Eric and Azhar, Faisal and Rodriguez, Aurelien and Joulin, Armand and Grave, Edouard and Lample, Guillaume},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13971},
  year={2023}
}
```

```bibtex
@misc{vicuna2023,
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    month = {March},
    year = {2023}
}
```

```bibtex
@misc{gpt4all,
  author = {Yuvanesh Anand and Zach Nussbaum and Brandon Duderstadt and Benjamin Schmidt and Andriy Mulyar},
  title = {GPT4All: Training an Assistant-style Chatbot with Large Scale Data Distillation from GPT-3.5-Turbo},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all}},
}
```

```bibtex
@misc{alpaca,
  author = {Rohan Taori and Ishaan Gulrajani and Tianyi Zhang and Yann Dubois and Xuechen Li and Carlos Guestrin and Percy Liang and Tatsunori B. Hashimoto },
  title = {Stanford Alpaca: An Instruction-following LLaMA model},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca}},
}
```

```bibtex
@software{leandro_von_werra_2023_7790115,
  author       = {Leandro von Werra and
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                  aaronrmm and
                  Fabrizio Milo and
                  Daniel and
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                  Dong Shin and
                  Ethan Kim and
                  Justin Wei and
                  Manuel Romero and
                  Nicky Pochinkov and
                  Omar Sanseviero and
                  Reshinth Adithyan and
                  Sherman Siu and
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  title        = {{CarperAI/trlx: v0.6.0: LLaMa (Alpaca), Benchmark 
                   Util, T5 ILQL, Tests}},
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  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v0.6.0},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.7790115},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7790115}
}
```