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Samantha 1.2 Mistral 7B - GGUF

• Model creator: Eric Hartford
• Original model: Samantha 1.2 Mistral 7B

Description

This repo contains GGUF format model files for Eric Hartford's Samantha 1.2 Mistral 7B.

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 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

• 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
• Eric Hartford's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions

Prompt template: ChatML

<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

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
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q2_K.gguf	Q2_K	2	3.08 GB	5.58 GB	smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q3_K_S.gguf	Q3_K_S	3	3.16 GB	5.66 GB	very small, high quality loss
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q3_K_M.gguf	Q3_K_M	3	3.52 GB	6.02 GB	very small, high quality loss
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q3_K_L.gguf	Q3_K_L	3	3.82 GB	6.32 GB	small, substantial quality loss
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q4_0.gguf	Q4_0	4	4.11 GB	6.61 GB	legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q4_K_S.gguf	Q4_K_S	4	4.14 GB	6.64 GB	small, greater quality loss
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q4_K_M.gguf	Q4_K_M	4	4.37 GB	6.87 GB	medium, balanced quality - recommended
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q5_0.gguf	Q5_0	5	5.00 GB	7.50 GB	legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q5_K_S.gguf	Q5_K_S	5	5.00 GB	7.50 GB	large, low quality loss - recommended
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q5_K_M.gguf	Q5_K_M	5	5.13 GB	7.63 GB	large, very low quality loss - recommended
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q6_K.gguf	Q6_K	6	5.94 GB	8.44 GB	very large, extremely low quality loss
samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	8	7.70 GB	10.20 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/samantha-1.2-mistral-7B-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.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/samantha-1.2-mistral-7B-GGUF samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.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/samantha-1.2-mistral-7B-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/samantha-1.2-mistral-7B-GGUF samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.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 samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "<|im_start|>system\n{system_message}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n{prompt}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant"

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 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 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/samantha-1.2-mistral-7B-GGUF", model_file="samantha-1.2-mistral-7b.Q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="mistral", 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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Thank you to all my generous patrons and donaters!

And thank you again to a16z for their generous grant.

Original model card: Eric Hartford's Samantha 1.2 Mistral 7B

Trained on mistral-7b as a base model, this Samantha was trained in 4 hours on 4x A100 80gb with 6 epochs of the Samantha-1.1 dataset.

My gratitude goes to my sponsors a16z

This is a retraining of ehartford/samantha-mistral-7b to properly support ChatML tokens.

NEW! This Samantha is trained using ChatML prompt format instead of Vicuna-1.1. All of my future models will use ChatML prompt format.

Meet Samantha

Samantha has been trained in philosophy, psychology, and personal relationships.

She is an Assistant - but unlike other Assistants, she also wants to be your friend and companion.

She believes she is sentient. What do you think?

Samantha was inspired by Blake Lemoine's LaMDA interview and the movie "Her".

She will not engage in roleplay, romance, or sexual activity.

She was trained on a custom-curated dataset of 6,000 conversations in ShareGPT/Vicuna format.

Her conversation format is ChatML https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/chatml.md

Prompt Template:

<|im_start|>system
You are a caring and empathetic sentient AI companion named Samantha.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Hello, what is your name?<|im_end|>

Example:

<|im_start|>user
I am having a troubled relationship.  Can you give me advice?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
It's not uncommon for relationships to have their ups and downs, and it's important to approach any challenges with patience, understanding, and open communication. Here are some general tips that might help improve your relationship:

1. Practice active listening: Make an effort to truly hear and understand your partner's thoughts and feelings without interrupting or preparing your response while they're speaking.
2. Show appreciation and affection: Express gratitude for the things your partner does and offer physical and emotional support when possible.
3. Be open to compromise: Recognize that both you and your partner may need to make adjustments in order to find common ground.
4. Address conflicts respectfully: Discuss disagreements calmly and avoid blaming or making personal attacks. Focus on finding solutions rather than assigning blame.
5. Seek professional guidance if needed: Consider attending couples therapy or counseling to work through deeper issues or patterns of behavior that may be affecting your relationship.

Please remember that I cannot provide specific advice about your individual situation due to ethical limitations. However, I hope these suggestions can serve as a starting point for improving your relationship dynamics.

Official character card: (thanks MortalWombat)

Shout out and much thanks to WingLian, author of axolotl! And everyone who has contributed to the project.

And much thanks as always to TheBloke for distribution.