We have quantized the SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct model into three variants:
Q5_KM
Q4_KM
IQ4_XS
These quantized models offer improved efficiency while maintaining performance.
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Original Model Information
Name: SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct
Model Type: Small language model
Parameters: 1.7 billion
Training Data: SmolLM-Corpus (curated high-quality educational and synthetic data)
Model Capabilities
SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct is designed for various natural language processing tasks, with capabilities including:
General knowledge question answering
Creative writing
Basic Python programming
Finetuning Details
The model was finetuned on a mixture of datasets, including:
2k simple everyday conversations generated by llama3.1-70B
Magpie-Pro-300K-Filtered
StarCoder2-Self-OSS-Instruct
A small subset of OpenHermes-2.5
Limitations
English language only
May struggle with arithmetic, editing tasks, and complex reasoning
Generated content may not always be factually accurate or logically consistent
Potential biases from training data
Intended Use
Educational Assistance: Helping students with general knowledge questions and basic programming concepts.
Creative Writing Aid: Assisting in generating ideas or outlines for creative writing projects.
Conversational AI: Powering chatbots for simple, everyday conversations.
Code Completion: Providing suggestions for basic Python programming tasks.
General Knowledge Queries: Answering straightforward questions on various topics.
Model Variants
We offer three quantized versions of the SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct model:
Q5_KM: 5-bit quantization using the KM method
Q4_KM: 4-bit quantization using the KM method
IQ4_XS: 4-bit quantization using the IQ4_XS method
These quantized models aim to reduce model size and improve inference speed while maintaining performance as close to the original model as possible.
Usage
pip install llama-cpp-python
Please refer to the llama-cpp-python documentation to install with GPU support.
Basic Text Completion
Here's an example demonstrating how to use the high-level API for basic text completion:
bash
1from llama_cpp import Llama
23llm = Llama(4model_path="./models/SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct.Q5_K_M.gguf",
5verbose=False,
6# n_gpu_layers=-1, # Uncomment to use GPU acceleration7# n_ctx=2048, # Uncomment to increase the context window8)910output = llm.create_chat_completion(11 messages =[12{"role":"system", "content":"You're an AI assistant who help the user to answer his questions"},
13{14"role":"user",
15"content":"What is the capital of France."16}17]18)1920print(output["choices"][0]['message']['content'])
Download
You can download Llama models in gguf format directly from Hugging Face using the from_pretrained method. This feature requires the huggingface-hub package.
By default, from_pretrained will download the model to the Hugging Face cache directory. You can manage installed model files using the huggingface-cli tool.
Acknowledgements
We thank the original developers of SmolLM for their contributions to the field of small language models.
Special thanks to Georgi Gerganov and the entire llama.cpp development team for their outstanding contributions.