# Aeala's VicUnlocked Alpaca 65B QLoRA GGML
These files are GGML format model files for [Aeala's VicUnlocked Alpaca 65B QLoRA](https://huggingface.co/Aeala/VicUnlocked-alpaca-65b-QLoRA).
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)
* [ParisNeo/GPT4All-UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/gpt4all-ui)
* [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python)
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers)
## Other repositories available
* [4-bit GPTQ models for GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/Aeala/VicUnlocked-alpaca-65b-4bit)
* [4-bit, 5-bit, and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/VicUnlocked-alpaca-65B-QLoRA-GGML)
* [Original unquantised fp16 model in HF format](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/VicUnlocked-alpaca-65B-QLoRA-fp16)
## THE FILES IN MAIN BRANCH REQUIRES LATEST LLAMA.CPP (May 19th 2023 - commit 2d5db48)!
llama.cpp recently made another breaking change to its quantisation methods - https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1508
I have quantised the GGML files in this repo with the latest version. Therefore you will require llama.cpp compiled on May 19th or later (commit `2d5db48` or later) to use them.
## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin | q4_0 | 4 | 36.73 GB | 39.23 GB | 4-bit. |
| VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin | q4_1 | 4 | 40.81 GB | 43.31 GB | 4-bit. Higher accuracy than q4_0 but not as high as q5_0. However has quicker inference than q5 models. |
| VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin | q5_0 | 5 | 44.89 GB | 47.39 GB | 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference. |
| VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin | q5_1 | 5 | 48.97 GB | 51.47 GB | 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference. |
| VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin | q8_0 | 8 | 69.37 GB | 71.87 GB | 8-bit. Almost indistinguishable from float16. Huge resource use and slow. Not recommended for most use cases. |
### q8_0 file requires expansion from archive
**Note:** HF does not support uploading files larger than 50GB. Therefore I have uploaded the q8_0 file in a multi-part ZIP file. The ZIP is not compressed, it is just storing the .bin file in two parts.
To decompress it, please download
* `VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q8_0.zip`
* `VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q8_0.z01`
and extract the .zip archive. This will will expand both parts automatically. On Linux I found I had to use `7zip` - the basic `unzip` tool did not work. Example:
```
sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install 7zip
7zz x VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q8_0.zip # Once the q8_0.bin is extracted you can delete the .zip and .z01
```
## How to run in `llama.cpp`
I use the following command line; adjust for your tastes and needs:
```
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m VicUnlocked-Alpaca-65B.ggmlv3.q5_0.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 