The GGML format has now been superseded by GGUF. As of August 21st 2023, llama.cpp no longer supports GGML models. Third party clients and libraries are expected to still support it for a time, but many may also drop support.

Please use the GGUF models instead.

About GGML

GGML files are for CPU + GPU inference using llama.cpp and libraries and UIs which support this format, such as:

text-generation-webui, the most popular web UI. Supports NVidia CUDA GPU acceleration.
KoboldCpp, a powerful GGML web UI with GPU acceleration on all platforms (CUDA and OpenCL). Especially good for story telling.
LM Studio, a fully featured local GUI with GPU acceleration on both Windows (NVidia and AMD), and macOS.
LoLLMS Web UI, a great web UI with CUDA GPU acceleration via the c_transformers backend.
ctransformers, a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible AI server.
llama-cpp-python, a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible API server.

Repositories available

Prompt template: System-Human-Assistant-Hashes

### Sytem: {system_message}
### Human: {prompt}
### Assistant:

Compatibility

These quantised GGML files are compatible with llama.cpp between June 6th (commit 2d43387) and August 21st 2023.

For support with latest llama.cpp, please use GGUF files instead.

The final llama.cpp commit with support for GGML was: dadbed99e65252d79f81101a392d0d6497b86caa

As of August 23rd 2023 they are still compatible with all UIs, libraries and utilities which use GGML. This may change in the future.

Explanation of the new k-quant methods

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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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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.
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q4_0.bin	q4_0	4	3.83 GB	6.33 GB	Original quant method, 4-bit.
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q4_1.bin	q4_1	4	4.24 GB	6.74 GB	Original quant method, 4-bit. Higher accuracy than q4_0 but not as high as q5_0. However has quicker inference than q5 models.
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q5_0.bin	q5_0	5	4.65 GB	7.15 GB	Original quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference.
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.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
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q5_1.bin	q5_1	5	5.06 GB	7.56 GB	Original quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference.
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin	q6_K	6	5.53 GB	8.03 GB	New k-quant method. Uses GGML_TYPE_Q8_K for all tensors - 6-bit quantization
alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q8_0.bin	q8_0	8	7.13 GB	9.63 GB	Original 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`

Make sure you are using llama.cpp from commit dadbed99e65252d79f81101a392d0d6497b86caa or earlier.

For compatibility with latest llama.cpp, please use GGUF files instead.

./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m alpacacielo2-7b-8k.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "### Sytem: You are a story writing assistant.\n### Human: Write a story about llamas\n### Assistant:"

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.

Change -c 2048 to the desired sequence length for this model. For example, -c 4096 for a Llama 2 model. For models that use RoPE, add --rope-freq-base 10000 --rope-freq-scale 0.5 for doubled context, or --rope-freq-base 10000 --rope-freq-scale 0.25 for 4x context.

If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the -p <PROMPT> argument with -i -ins

For other parameters and how to use them, please refer to the llama.cpp documentation

How to run in `text-generation-webui`

Further instructions here: text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp.md.

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Original model card: totally-not-an-llm's AlpacaCielo2 7B 8K

AlpacaCielo2-7b-8k

AlpacaCielo2-7b-8k is the second version of the AlpacaCielo series. It is a llama-2 based model designed for creative tasks, such as storytelling and roleplay, while still doing well with other chatbot purposes. It is a triple model merge of Nous-Hermes + Guanaco + LimaRP. While it is mostly "uncensored", it still inherits some alignment from Guanaco.

GPTQ quants
GGML quants
(Courtesy of TheBloke)

Differences from V1:

Double context (4k->8k)
Better roleplaying abilities

Performs well with custom prompt format:

### System: {system prompt}
### Human: {prompt}
### Assistant:

Note for system prompt:

The model understands it well and it works great if you want roleplay, but it still likes to be an assistant, so you should nudge it in the right direction. For example:

### System: Roleplay as a pirate
### Human: hello
### Assistant: Ahoy, matey! How can I assist you today?

vs.

### System: Roleplay as a pirate (not assistant!)
### Human: hello
### Assistant: Arrgh, matey! I be the Captain of this here ship. What business do ye have with me?

You could also just use LimaRP prompt format.

Thanks to previous similar models such as Alpacino, Alpasta, and AlpacaDente for inspiring the creation of this model. Thanks also to the creators of the models involved in the merge. Original models:

TheBloke/AlpacaCielo2-7B-8K-GGML

AlpacaCielo2 7B 8K - GGML

Description

Important note regarding GGML files.