# install git-lfs to interact with the repository
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-lfs
# install transformers (not needed for inference since it is installed by default in the container)
pip install transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,audio,vision]

Clone model weights of interest.

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/tykiww/llama3-8b-meetingQA

# setup cli with token
huggingface-cli login
git config --global credential.helper store

Confirm login in case you are unsure.

huggingface-cli whoami

Navigate to repo and create a handler.py file

cd llama3-8b-bnb-4bit-lora #&& touch handler.py

Create a requirements.txt file with the following items

huggingface_hub
unsloth[colab-new] @ git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git
xformers
trl<0.9.0 
peft==0.11.1
bitsandbytes
transformers==4.41.2 # must use /:

Must have a GPU compatible with Unsloth.