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Instructions to use Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2 with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2")# Load model directly from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2") model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2", device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2 with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2
- SGLang
How to use Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2 with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2 with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2
How to use from
SGLangUse Docker images
docker run --gpus all \
--shm-size 32g \
-p 30000:30000 \
-v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
--env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
--ipc=host \
lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2" \
--host 0.0.0.0 \
--port 30000# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"model": "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2",
"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
"max_tokens": 512,
"temperature": 0.5
}'Quick Links
Exllamav2 quant (exl2 / 3.0 bpw) made with ExLlamaV2 v0.0.21
Other EXL2 quants:
| Quant | Model Size | lm_head |
|---|---|---|
Daredevil-8B
tl;dr: It looks like a successful merge
Daredevil-8B is a merge of the following models using LazyMergekit:
- nbeerbower/llama-3-stella-8B
- Hastagaras/llama-3-8b-okay
- nbeerbower/llama-3-gutenberg-8B
- openchat/openchat-3.6-8b-20240522
- Kukedlc/NeuralLLaMa-3-8b-DT-v0.1
- cstr/llama3-8b-spaetzle-v20
- mlabonne/ChimeraLlama-3-8B-v3
- flammenai/Mahou-1.1-llama3-8B
- KingNish/KingNish-Llama3-8b
π Applications
It is a highly functional censored model. You might want to add <end_of_turn> as an additional stop string.
β‘ Quantization
π Evaluation
| Model | Average | AGIEval | GPT4All | TruthfulQA | Bigbench |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mlabonne/Daredevil-8B π | 55.87 | 44.13 | 73.52 | 59.05 | 46.77 |
| mlabonne/ChimeraLlama-3-8B π | 51.58 | 39.12 | 71.81 | 52.4 | 42.98 |
| meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct π | 51.34 | 41.22 | 69.86 | 51.65 | 42.64 |
| meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B π | 45.42 | 31.1 | 69.95 | 43.91 | 36.7 |
π³ Model family tree
π§© Configuration
models:
- model: NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B
# No parameters necessary for base model
- model: nbeerbower/llama-3-stella-8B
parameters:
density: 0.6
weight: 0.16
- model: Hastagaras/llama-3-8b-okay
parameters:
density: 0.56
weight: 0.1
- model: nbeerbower/llama-3-gutenberg-8B
parameters:
density: 0.6
weight: 0.18
- model: openchat/openchat-3.6-8b-20240522
parameters:
density: 0.56
weight: 0.12
- model: Kukedlc/NeuralLLaMa-3-8b-DT-v0.1
parameters:
density: 0.58
weight: 0.18
- model: cstr/llama3-8b-spaetzle-v20
parameters:
density: 0.56
weight: 0.08
- model: mlabonne/ChimeraLlama-3-8B-v3
parameters:
density: 0.56
weight: 0.08
- model: flammenai/Mahou-1.1-llama3-8B
parameters:
density: 0.55
weight: 0.05
- model: KingNish/KingNish-Llama3-8b
parameters:
density: 0.55
weight: 0.05
merge_method: dare_ties
base_model: NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B
dtype: bfloat16
π» Usage
!pip install -qU transformers accelerate
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
import transformers
import torch
model = "mlabonne/Daredevil-8B"
messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "What is a large language model?"}]
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto",
)
outputs = pipeline(prompt, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.7, top_k=50, top_p=0.95)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"])
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Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang# Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "Zoyd/mlabonne_Daredevil-8B-3_0bpw_exl2", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'