GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp. GGUF offers numerous advantages over GGML, such as better tokenisation, and support for special tokens. It is also supports metadata, and is designed to be extensible.

Here is an incomplate list of clients and libraries that are known to support GGUF:

llama.cpp. The source project for GGUF. Offers a CLI and a server option.
text-generation-webui, the most widely used web UI, with many features and powerful extensions. Supports GPU acceleration.
KoboldCpp, a fully featured web UI, with GPU accel across all platforms and GPU architectures. Especially good for story telling.
LM Studio, an easy-to-use and powerful local GUI for Windows and macOS (Silicon), with GPU acceleration.
LoLLMS Web UI, a great web UI with many interesting and unique features, including a full model library for easy model selection.
Faraday.dev, an attractive and easy to use character-based chat GUI for Windows and macOS (both Silicon and Intel), with GPU acceleration.
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.
candle, a Rust ML framework with a focus on performance, including GPU support, and ease of use.

Repositories available

Prompt template: Chat

A chat.
USER: {prompt}
ASSISTANT:

Compatibility

These quantised GGUFv2 files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 27th onwards, as of commit d0cee0d36d5be95a0d9088b674dbb27354107221

They are also compatible with many third party UIs and libraries - please see the list at the top of this README.

Explanation of quantisation methods

Click to see details

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

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
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q2_K.gguf	Q2_K	2	29.28 GB	31.78 GB	smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q3_K_S.gguf	Q3_K_S	3	29.92 GB	32.42 GB	very small, high quality loss
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q3_K_M.gguf	Q3_K_M	3	33.19 GB	35.69 GB	very small, high quality loss
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q3_K_L.gguf	Q3_K_L	3	36.15 GB	38.65 GB	small, substantial quality loss
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q4_0.gguf	Q4_0	4	38.87 GB	41.37 GB	legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q4_K_S.gguf	Q4_K_S	4	39.07 GB	41.57 GB	small, greater quality loss
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	4	41.42 GB	43.92 GB	medium, balanced quality - recommended
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q5_0.gguf	Q5_0	5	47.46 GB	49.96 GB	legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q5_K_S.gguf	Q5_K_S	5	47.46 GB	49.96 GB	large, low quality loss - recommended
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	5	48.75 GB	51.25 GB	large, very low quality loss - recommended
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf	Q6_K	6	56.59 GB	59.09 GB	very large, extremely low quality loss
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	8	73.29 GB	75.79 GB	very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended

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.

Q6_K and Q8_0 files are split and require joining

Note: HF does not support uploading files larger than 50GB. Therefore I have uploaded the Q6_K and Q8_0 files as split files.

Click for instructions regarding Q6_K and Q8_0 files

q6_K

Please download:

airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-a
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-b

q8_0

Please download:

airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-a
airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-b

To join the files, do the following:

Linux and macOS:

cat airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-* > airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf && rm airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-*
cat airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-* > airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf && rm airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-*

Windows command line:

COPY /B airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-a + airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-b airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf
del airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-a airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q6_K.gguf-split-b

COPY /B airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-a + airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-b airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf
del airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-a airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.Q8_0.gguf-split-b

How to download GGUF files

Note for manual downloaders: You almost never want to clone the entire repo! Multiple different quantisation formats are provided, and most users only want to pick and download a single file.

The following clients/libraries will automatically download models for you, providing a list of available models to choose from:

LM Studio
LoLLMS Web UI
Faraday.dev

In `text-generation-webui`

Under Download Model, you can enter the model repo: TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.q4_K_M.gguf.

Then click Download.

On the command line, including multiple files at once

I recommend using the huggingface-hub Python library:

pip3 install huggingface-hub>=0.17.1

Then you can download any individual model file to the current directory, at high speed, with a command like this:

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False

More advanced huggingface-cli download usage

You can also download multiple files at once with a pattern:

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False --include='*Q4_K*gguf'

For more documentation on downloading with huggingface-cli, please see: HF -> Hub Python Library -> Download files -> Download from the CLI.

To accelerate downloads on fast connections (1Gbit/s or higher), install hf_transfer:

pip3 install hf_transfer

And set environment variable HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER to 1:

HUGGINGFACE_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False

Windows CLI users: Use set HUGGINGFACE_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 before running the download command.

Example `llama.cpp` command

Make sure you are using llama.cpp from commit d0cee0d36d5be95a0d9088b674dbb27354107221 or later.

./main -ngl 32 -m airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 4096 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "A chat.\nUSER: {prompt}\nASSISTANT:"

Change -ngl 32 to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.

Change -c 4096 to the desired sequence length. For extended sequence models - eg 8K, 16K, 32K - the necessary RoPE scaling parameters are read from the GGUF file and set by llama.cpp automatically.

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.

How to run from Python code

You can use GGUF models from Python using the llama-cpp-python or ctransformers libraries.

How to load this model from Python using ctransformers

First install the package

bash

# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24
# Or with CUDA GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers[cuda]>=0.2.24
# Or with ROCm GPU acceleration
CT_HIPBLAS=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems
CT_METAL=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers

Simple example code to load one of these GGUF models

python

from ctransformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

# Set gpu_layers to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Set to 0 if no GPU acceleration is available on your system.
llm = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF", model_file="airoboros-l2-70b-2.1-creative.q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="llama", gpu_layers=50)

print(llm("AI is going to"))

How to use with LangChain

Here's guides on using llama-cpp-python or ctransformers with LangChain:

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Thanks, and how to contribute

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Thanks to Clay from gpus.llm-utils.org!

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If you're able and willing to contribute it will be most gratefully received and will help me to keep providing more models, and to start work on new AI projects.

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Original model card: Jon Durbin's Airoboros L2 70B 2.1 Creative

This is a merge of llama-2-70b with the "creative" adapter from https://hf.co/jondurbin/airoboros-lmoe-70b-2.1

Basically, it's using a subset of the airoboros 2.1 training that is specifically focused on creative tasks, such as writing, roleplay, etc.

TheBloke/Airoboros-L2-70B-2.1-Creative-GGUF

Airoboros L2 70B 2.1 Creative - GGUF

Description

About GGUF