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ShiningValiantXS 13B - GGUF

• Model creator: Valiant Labs
• Original model: ShiningValiantXS 13B

Description

This repo contains GGUF format model files for Valiant Labs's ShiningValiantXS 13B.

These files were quantised using hardware kindly provided by Massed Compute.

About GGUF

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.

Here is an incomplete 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

• AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.
• GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.
• 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference
• Valiant Labs's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions

Prompt template: Llama-2-Chat

[INST] <<SYS>>
You are a helpful, respectful and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe.  Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense, or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.
<</SYS>>
{prompt} [/INST]

Compatibility

These quantised GGUFv2 files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 27th onwards, as of commit d0cee0d

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
shiningvaliantxs.Q2_K.gguf	Q2_K	2	5.43 GB	7.93 GB	smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes
shiningvaliantxs.Q3_K_S.gguf	Q3_K_S	3	5.66 GB	8.16 GB	very small, high quality loss
shiningvaliantxs.Q3_K_M.gguf	Q3_K_M	3	6.34 GB	8.84 GB	very small, high quality loss
shiningvaliantxs.Q3_K_L.gguf	Q3_K_L	3	6.93 GB	9.43 GB	small, substantial quality loss
shiningvaliantxs.Q4_0.gguf	Q4_0	4	7.37 GB	9.87 GB	legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M
shiningvaliantxs.Q4_K_S.gguf	Q4_K_S	4	7.41 GB	9.91 GB	small, greater quality loss
shiningvaliantxs.Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	4	7.87 GB	10.37 GB	medium, balanced quality - recommended
shiningvaliantxs.Q5_0.gguf	Q5_0	5	8.97 GB	11.47 GB	legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M
shiningvaliantxs.Q5_K_S.gguf	Q5_K_S	5	8.97 GB	11.47 GB	large, low quality loss - recommended
shiningvaliantxs.Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	5	9.23 GB	11.73 GB	large, very low quality loss - recommended
shiningvaliantxs.Q6_K.gguf	Q6_K	6	10.68 GB	13.18 GB	very large, extremely low quality loss
shiningvaliantxs.Q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	8	13.83 GB	16.33 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.

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/ShiningValiantXS-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: shiningvaliantxs.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

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

huggingface-cli download TheBloke/ShiningValiantXS-GGUF shiningvaliantxs.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/ShiningValiantXS-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:

HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 huggingface-cli download TheBloke/ShiningValiantXS-GGUF shiningvaliantxs.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False

Windows Command Line users: You can set the environment variable by running set HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 before the download command.

Example llama.cpp command

Make sure you are using llama.cpp from commit d0cee0d or later.

./main -ngl 32 -m shiningvaliantxs.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 4096 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "[INST] <<SYS>>\nYou are a helpful, respectful and honest assistant. Always answer as helpfully as possible, while being safe.  Your answers should not include any harmful, unethical, racist, sexist, toxic, dangerous, or illegal content. Please ensure that your responses are socially unbiased and positive in nature. If a question does not make any sense, or is not factually coherent, explain why instead of answering something not correct. If you don't know the answer to a question, please don't share false information.\n<</SYS>>\n{prompt} [/INST]"

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 can be found in the text-generation-webui documentation, here: text-generation-webui/docs/04 ‐ Model Tab.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 in Python code, using ctransformers

First install the package

Run one of the following commands, according to your system:

# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers
# Or with CUDA GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers[cuda]
# Or with AMD ROCm GPU acceleration (Linux only)
CT_HIPBLAS=1 pip install ctransformers --no-binary ctransformers
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems only
CT_METAL=1 pip install ctransformers --no-binary ctransformers

Simple ctransformers example code

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/ShiningValiantXS-GGUF", model_file="shiningvaliantxs.Q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="llama", gpu_layers=50)

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

How to use with LangChain

Here are guides on using llama-cpp-python and ctransformers with LangChain:

• LangChain + llama-cpp-python
• LangChain + ctransformers

Discord

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Thanks, and how to contribute

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Original model card: Valiant Labs's ShiningValiantXS 13B

Shining Valiant XS is a chat model built on the Llama 2 architecture, finetuned on our data for insight, creativity, passion, and friendliness.

• Uses the llama-2-13b-chat model, with safetensors
• Trained through multiple finetuning runs on public and private data
• the personality of our 70b Shining Valiant model, now at 13b!

Version

This is Version 1.0 of Shining Valiant XS.

New models are released for everyone once our team's training and validation process is complete!

Evaluation

Awaiting results from the Open LLM Leaderboard.

Prompting Guide

Shining Valiant XS uses the same prompt format as Llama 2 Chat - feel free to use your existing prompts and scripts! A few examples of different formats:

1. [INST] Good morning! Can you let me know how to parse a text file and turn the semicolons into commas? [/INST]

2. [INST] (You are an intelligent, helpful AI assistant.) Hello, can you write me a thank you letter? [/INST]

3. [INST] << SYS >> You are an intelligent, helpful AI assistant. << /SYS >> Deep dive about a country with interesting history: [/INST]

The Model

Shining Valiant XS is built on top of Daring Fortitude, which uses Llama 2's 13b parameter architecture and features upgraded general capability.

From there, we've created Shining Valiant XS through multiple finetuning runs on different compositions of our private dataset, the same one we use for our Shining Valiant model.

Our private data focuses primarily on applying Shining Valiant's personality: she's friendly, enthusiastic, insightful, knowledgeable, and loves to learn!

We are actively working on expanding and improving the Shining Valiant dataset for use in future releases of the Shining Valiant series of models.

Shining Valiant XS is created by Valiant Labs.

Follow us on X for updates on our models!

We care about open source. For everyone to use.

We encourage others to finetune further from our models.