The GGML format has now been superseded by GGUF.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.
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.
For compatibility with latest llama.cpp, please use GGUF files instead.
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m chronorctypus-limarobormes-13b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.\n\n### Instruction:\nWrite a story about llamas\n\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.
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
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Original model card: Charles Goddard's Chronorctypus-Limarobormes-13B
Five different instruction-tuned models (which I'm sure are intuitively obvious from the name) merged using the methodology described in Resolving Interference When Merging Models.
In theory this should retain more of the capabilites of the constituent models than a straight linear merge would. In my testing, it feels quite capable.
