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---
base_model: KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia
inference: false
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
model_creator: KoboldAI
model_name: Llama2 13B Estopia
model_type: llama
prompt_template: 'Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response
  that appropriately completes the request.


  ### Instruction:

  {prompt}


  ### Response:

  '
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- mergekit
- merge
---
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# Llama2 13B Estopia - AWQ
- Model creator: [KoboldAI](https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI)
- Original model: [Llama2 13B Estopia](https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia)

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## Description

This repo contains AWQ model files for [KoboldAI's Llama2 13B Estopia](https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia).

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.

AWQ models are currently supported on Linux and Windows, with NVidia GPUs only. macOS users: please use GGUF models instead.

It is supported by:

- [Text Generation Webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) - using Loader: AutoAWQ
- [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) - version 0.2.2 or later for support for all model types.
- [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

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## Repositories available

* [AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-AWQ)
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-GGUF)
* [KoboldAI's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia)
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## 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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## Licensing

The creator of the source model has listed its license as `cc-by-nc-4.0`, and this quantization has therefore used that same license.

As this model is based on Llama 2, it is also subject to the Meta Llama 2 license terms, and the license files for that are additionally included. It should therefore be considered as being claimed to be licensed under both licenses. I contacted Hugging Face for clarification on dual licensing but they do not yet have an official position. Should this change, or should Meta provide any feedback on this situation, I will update this section accordingly.

In the meantime, any questions regarding licensing, and in particular how these two licenses might interact, should be directed to the original model repository: [KoboldAI's Llama2 13B Estopia](https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia).
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## 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/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-AWQ/tree/main) | 4 | 128 | [VMware Open Instruct](https://huggingface.co/datasets/VMware/open-instruct/viewer/) | 4096 | 7.25 GB

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## 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/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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: `LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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!
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## 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/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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'''Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction:
{prompt}

### Response:
'''

prompts = [prompt_template.format(prompt=prompt) for prompt in prompts]

sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)

llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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}")
```
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## 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/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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'''Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction:
{prompt}

### Response:
'''

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)
```
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## 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/LLaMA2-13B-Estopia-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'''Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction:
{prompt}

### Response:
'''

# 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)

```
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## 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.

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# Original model card: KoboldAI's Llama2 13B Estopia

# Introduction
- Estopia is a model focused on improving the dialogue and prose returned when using the instruct format. As a side benefit, character cards and similar seem to have also improved, remembering details well in many cases.
- It focuses on "guided narratives" - using instructions to guide or explore fictional stories, where you act as a guide for the AI to narrate and fill in the details.
- It has primarily been tested around prose, using instructions to guide narrative, detail retention and "neutrality" - in particular with regards to plot armour. Unless you define different rules for your adventure / narrative with instructions, it should be realistic in the responses provided.
- It has been tested using different modes, such as instruct, chat, adventure and story modes - and should be able to do them all to a degree, with it's strengths being instruct and adventure, with story being a close second.
# Usage
- The Estopia model has been tested primarily using the Alpaca format, but with the range of models included likely has some understanding of others. Some examples of tested formats are below:
    - ```\n### Instruction:\nWhat colour is the sky?\n### Response:\nThe sky is...```
    - ```<Story text>\n***\nWrite a summary of the text above\n***\nThe story starts by...```
    - Using the Kobold Lite AI adventure mode
    - ```User:Hello there!\nAssistant:Good morning...\n```
- For settings, the following are recommended for general use:
    - Temperature: 0.8-1.2
    - Min P: 0.05-0.1
    - Max P: 0.92, or 1 if using a Min P greater than 0
    - Top K: 0
    - Response length: Higher than your usual amount most likely - for example a common value selected is 512.
        - Note: Response lengths are not guaranteed to always be this length. On occasion, responses may be shorter if they convey the response entirely, other times they could be upwards of this value. It depends mostly on the character card, instructions, etc.
    - Rep Pen: 1.1
    - Rep Pen Range: 2 or 3x your response length
    - Stopping tokens (Not needed, but can help if the AI is writing too much):
        - ```##||$||---||$||ASSISTANT:||$||[End||$||</s>``` - A single string for Kobold Lite combining the ones below
        - ```##```
        - ```---```
        - ```ASSISTANT:```
        - ```[End```
        - ```</s>```
- The settings above should provide a generally good experience balancing instruction following and creativity. Generally the higher you set the temperature, the greater the creativity and higher chance of logical errors when providing responses from the AI.
# Recipe
This model was made in three stages, along with many experimental stages which will be skipped for brevity. The first was internally referred to as EstopiaV9, which has a high degree of instruction following and creativity in responses, though they were generally shorter and a little more restricted in the scope of outputs, but conveyed nuance better.
```yaml
merge_method: task_arithmetic
base_model: TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16
models:
- model: TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16
- model: Undi95/UtopiaXL-13B
    parameters:
    weight: 1.0
- model: Doctor-Shotgun/cat-v1.0-13b
    parameters:
    weight: 0.02
- model: PygmalionAI/mythalion-13b
    parameters:
    weight: 0.10
- model: Undi95/Emerhyst-13B
    parameters:
    weight: 0.05
- model: CalderaAI/13B-Thorns-l2
    parameters:
    weight: 0.05
- model: KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Tiefighter
    parameters:
    weight: 0.20
dtype: float16
```
The second part of the merge was known as EstopiaV13. This produced responses which were long, but tended to write beyond good stopping points for further instructions to be added as it leant heavily on novel style prose. It did however benefit from a greater degree of neutrality as described above, and retained many of the detail tracking abilities of V9.
```yaml
merge_method: task_arithmetic
base_model: TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16
models:
  - model: TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16
  - model: Undi95/UtopiaXL-13B
    parameters:
      weight: 1.0
  - model: Doctor-Shotgun/cat-v1.0-13b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.01
  - model: chargoddard/rpguild-chatml-13b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.02
  - model: PygmalionAI/mythalion-13b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.08
  - model: CalderaAI/13B-Thorns-l2
    parameters:
      weight: 0.02
  - model: KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Tiefighter
    parameters:
      weight: 0.20
dtype: float16
```
The third step was a merge between the two to retain the benefits of both as much as possible. This was performed using the dare merging technique.
```yaml
# task-arithmetic style
models:
  - model: EstopiaV9
    parameters:
      weight: 1
      density: 1
  - model: EstopiaV13
    parameters:
      weight: 0.05
      density: 0.30
merge_method: dare_ties
base_model: TheBloke/Llama-2-13B-fp16
parameters:
  int8_mask: true
dtype: bfloat16
```
# Model selection
- Undi95/UtopiaXL-13B
    - Solid all around base for models, with the ability to write longer responses and generally good retension to detail.
- Doctor-Shotgun/cat-v1.0-13b
    - A medical focused model which is added to focus a little more on the human responses, such as for psycology.
- PygmalionAI/mythalion-13b
    - A roleplay and instruct focused model, which improves attentiveness to character card details and the variety of responses
- Undi95/Emerhyst-13B
    - A roleplay but also longer form response model. It can be quite variable, but helps add to the depth and possible options the AI can respond with during narratives.
- CalderaAI/13B-Thorns-l2
    - A neutral and very attentive model. It is good at chat and following instructions, which help benefit these modes.
- KoboldAI/LLaMA2-13B-Tiefighter
    - A solid all around model, focusing on story writing and adventure modes. It provides all around benefits to creativity and the prose in models, along with adventure mode support.
- chargoddard/rpguild-chatml-13b
    - A roleplay model, which introduces new data and also improves the detail retention in longer narratives.
# Notes
- With the differing models inside, this model will not have perfect end of sequence tokens which is a problem many merges can share. While attempts have been made to minimise this, you may occasionally get oddly behaving tokens - this should be possible to resolve with a quick manual edit once and the model should pick up on it.
- Chat is one of the least tested areas for this model. It works fairly well, but it can be quite character card dependant.
- This is a narrative and prose focused model. As a result, it can and will talk for you if guided to do so (such as asking it to act as a co-author or narrator) within instructions or other contexts. This can be mitigated mostly by adding instructions to limit this, or using chat mode instead.
# Future areas
- Llava
    - Some success has been had with merging the llava lora on this. While no in depth testing has been performed, more narrative responses based on the images could be obtained - though there were drawbacks in the form of degraded performance in other areas, and hallucinations due to the fictional focus of this model.
- Stheno
    - A merge which has similar promise from Sao. Some merge attempts have been made between the two and were promising, but not entirely consistent at the moment. With some possible refinement, this could produce an even stronger model.
- DynamicFactor
    - All the merges used have been based on llama two in this merge, but a dare merge with dynamic factor (an attempted refinement of llama two) showed a beneficial improvement to the instruction abilities of the model, along with lengthy responses. It lost a little of the variety of responses, so perhaps if a balance of it could be added the instruction abilities and reasoning could be improved even further.