---
base_model: NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT
inference: false
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
model-index:
- name: Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT
results: []
model_creator: NousResearch
model_name: Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8X7B SFT
model_type: mixtral
prompt_template: '<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- Mixtral
- instruct
- finetune
- chatml
- DPO
- RLHF
- gpt4
- synthetic data
- distillation
---
# Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8X7B SFT - AWQ
- Model creator: [NousResearch](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch)
- Original model: [Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8X7B SFT](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT)
## Description
This repo contains AWQ model files for [NousResearch's Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8X7B SFT](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT).
These files were quantised using hardware kindly provided by [Massed Compute](https://massedcompute.com/).
**MIXTRAL AWQ**
This is a Mixtral AWQ model.
For AutoAWQ inference, please install AutoAWQ 0.1.8 or later.
Support via Transformers is also available, but currently requires installing Transformers from Github: `pip3 install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git`
vLLM: version 0.2.6 is confirmed to support Mixtral AWQs.
TGI: I tested version 1.3.3 and it loaded the model fine, but I was not able to get any output back. Further testing/debug is required. (Let me know if you get it working!)
### About AWQ
AWQ is an efficient, accurate and blazing-fast low-bit weight quantization method, currently supporting 4-bit quantization. Compared to GPTQ, it offers faster Transformers-based inference with equivalent or better quality compared to the most commonly used GPTQ settings.
AWQ models are currently supported on Linux and Windows, with NVidia GPUs only. macOS users: please use GGUF models instead.
AWQ models are supported by (note that not all of these may support Mixtral models yet - see above):
- [Text Generation Webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) - using Loader: AutoAWQ
- [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) - version 0.2.2 or later for support for all model types.
- [Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference)
- [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) version 4.35.0 and later, from any code or client that supports Transformers
- [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) - for use from Python code
## Repositories available
* [AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ)
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-GGUF)
* [NousResearch's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT)
## Prompt template: ChatML
```
<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```
## Provided files, and AWQ parameters
I currently release 128g GEMM models only. The addition of group_size 32 models, and GEMV kernel models, is being actively considered.
Models are released as sharded safetensors files.
| Branch | Bits | GS | AWQ Dataset | Seq Len | Size |
| ------ | ---- | -- | ----------- | ------- | ---- |
| [main](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ/tree/main) | 4 | 128 | [VMware Open Instruct](https://huggingface.co/datasets/VMware/open-instruct/viewer/) | 8192 | 24.65 GB
## How to easily download and use this model in [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui)
Please make sure you're using the latest version of [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui).
It is strongly recommended to use the text-generation-webui one-click-installers unless you're sure you know how to make a manual install.
1. Click the **Model tab**.
2. Under **Download custom model or LoRA**, enter `TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ`.
3. Click **Download**.
4. The model will start downloading. Once it's finished it will say "Done".
5. In the top left, click the refresh icon next to **Model**.
6. In the **Model** dropdown, choose the model you just downloaded: `Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ`
7. Select **Loader: AutoAWQ**.
8. Click Load, and the model will load and is now ready for use.
9. If you want any custom settings, set them and then click **Save settings for this model** followed by **Reload the Model** in the top right.
10. Once you're ready, click the **Text Generation** tab and enter a prompt to get started!
## Multi-user inference server: vLLM
Documentation on installing and using vLLM [can be found here](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
- Please ensure you are using vLLM version 0.2 or later.
- When using vLLM as a server, pass the `--quantization awq` parameter.
For example:
```shell
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.api_server --model TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ --quantization awq --dtype auto
```
- When using vLLM from Python code, again set `quantization=awq`.
For example:
```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
prompts = [
"Tell me about AI",
"Write a story about llamas",
"What is 291 - 150?",
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?",
]
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
prompts = [prompt_template.format(prompt=prompt) for prompt in prompts]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ", quantization="awq", dtype="auto")
outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
# Print the outputs.
for output in outputs:
prompt = output.prompt
generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
```
## Multi-user inference server: Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)
Use TGI version 1.1.0 or later. The official Docker container is: `ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:1.1.0`
Example Docker parameters:
```shell
--model-id TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ --port 3000 --quantize awq --max-input-length 3696 --max-total-tokens 4096 --max-batch-prefill-tokens 4096
```
Example Python code for interfacing with TGI (requires [huggingface-hub](https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub) 0.17.0 or later):
```shell
pip3 install huggingface-hub
```
```python
from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient
endpoint_url = "https://your-endpoint-url-here"
prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
client = InferenceClient(endpoint_url)
response = client.text_generation(prompt,
max_new_tokens=128,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.95,
top_k=40,
repetition_penalty=1.1)
print(f"Model output: ", response)
```
## Inference from Python code using Transformers
### Install the necessary packages
- Requires: [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) 4.35.0 or later.
- Requires: [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) 0.1.6 or later.
```shell
pip3 install --upgrade "autoawq>=0.1.6" "transformers>=4.35.0"
```
Note that if you are using PyTorch 2.0.1, the above AutoAWQ command will automatically upgrade you to PyTorch 2.1.0.
If you are using CUDA 11.8 and wish to continue using PyTorch 2.0.1, instead run this command:
```shell
pip3 install https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ/releases/download/v0.1.6/autoawq-0.1.6+cu118-cp310-cp310-linux_x86_64.whl
```
If you have problems installing [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) using the pre-built wheels, install it from source instead:
```shell
pip3 uninstall -y autoawq
git clone https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ
cd AutoAWQ
pip3 install .
```
### Transformers example code (requires Transformers 4.35.0 and later)
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TextStreamer
model_name_or_path = "TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-AWQ"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_name_or_path,
low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
device_map="cuda:0"
)
# Using the text streamer to stream output one token at a time
streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer, skip_prompt=True, skip_special_tokens=True)
prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'''
# Convert prompt to tokens
tokens = tokenizer(
prompt_template,
return_tensors='pt'
).input_ids.cuda()
generation_params = {
"do_sample": True,
"temperature": 0.7,
"top_p": 0.95,
"top_k": 40,
"max_new_tokens": 512,
"repetition_penalty": 1.1
}
# Generate streamed output, visible one token at a time
generation_output = model.generate(
tokens,
streamer=streamer,
**generation_params
)
# Generation without a streamer, which will include the prompt in the output
generation_output = model.generate(
tokens,
**generation_params
)
# Get the tokens from the output, decode them, print them
token_output = generation_output[0]
text_output = tokenizer.decode(token_output)
print("model.generate output: ", text_output)
# Inference is also possible via Transformers' pipeline
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
**generation_params
)
pipe_output = pipe(prompt_template)[0]['generated_text']
print("pipeline output: ", pipe_output)
```
## Compatibility
The files provided are tested to work with:
- [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui) using `Loader: AutoAWQ`.
- [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) version 0.2.0 and later.
- [Hugging Face Text Generation Inference (TGI)](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference) version 1.1.0 and later.
- [Transformers](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers) version 4.35.0 and later.
- [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) version 0.1.1 and later.
## Discord
For further support, and discussions on these models and AI in general, join us at:
[TheBloke AI's Discord server](https://discord.gg/theblokeai)
## Thanks, and how to contribute
Thanks to the [chirper.ai](https://chirper.ai) team!
Thanks to Clay from [gpus.llm-utils.org](llm-utils)!
I've had a lot of people ask if they can contribute. I enjoy providing models and helping people, and would love to be able to spend even more time doing it, as well as expanding into new projects like fine tuning/training.
If you're able and willing to contribute it will be most gratefully received and will help me to keep providing more models, and to start work on new AI projects.
Donaters will get priority support on any and all AI/LLM/model questions and requests, access to a private Discord room, plus other benefits.
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# Original model card: NousResearch's Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8X7B SFT
# Nous Hermes 2 - Mixtral 8x7B - SFT
## Model description
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B SFT is the supervised finetune only version of our new flagship Nous Research model trained over the [Mixtral 8x7B MoE LLM](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1).
The model was trained on over 1,000,000 entries of primarily GPT-4 generated data, as well as other high quality data from open datasets across the AI landscape, achieving state of the art performance on a variety of tasks.
This is the SFT only version of Mixtral Hermes 2, we have also released an SFT+DPO version, for people to find which works best for them, which can be found here: https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO
## We are grateful to Together.ai for sponsoring our compute during the many experiments both training Mixtral and working on DPO!
# Table of Contents
1. [Example Outputs](#example-outputs)
2. [Benchmark Results](#benchmark-results)
- GPT4All
- AGIEval
- BigBench
- Comparison to Mixtral-Instruct
3. [Prompt Format](#prompt-format)
4. [Inference Example Code](#inference-code)
5. [Quantized Models](#quantized-models)
## Example Outputs
### Writing Code for Data Visualization
### Writing Cyberpunk Psychedelic Poems
### Performing Backtranslation to Create Prompts from Input Text
## Benchmark Results
Nous-Hermes 2 on Mixtral 8x7B SFT is the bedrock for major improvements on many of the benchmarks below compared to the base Mixtral model, and is the SFT only version of our first model to beat the flagship Mixtral Finetune by MistralAI (the DPO version).
## GPT4All:
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|arc_challenge| 0|acc |0.5904|± |0.0144|
| | |acc_norm|0.6323|± |0.0141|
|arc_easy | 0|acc |0.8594|± |0.0071|
| | |acc_norm|0.8607|± |0.0071|
|boolq | 1|acc |0.8783|± |0.0057|
|hellaswag | 0|acc |0.6592|± |0.0047|
| | |acc_norm|0.8434|± |0.0036|
|openbookqa | 0|acc |0.3400|± |0.0212|
| | |acc_norm|0.4660|± |0.0223|
|piqa | 0|acc |0.8324|± |0.0087|
| | |acc_norm|0.8379|± |0.0086|
|winogrande | 0|acc |0.7569|± |0.0121|
```
Average: 75.36
## AGIEval:
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|------------------------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|agieval_aqua_rat | 0|acc |0.2441|± |0.0270|
| | |acc_norm|0.2598|± |0.0276|
|agieval_logiqa_en | 0|acc |0.4025|± |0.0192|
| | |acc_norm|0.3978|± |0.0192|
|agieval_lsat_ar | 0|acc |0.2391|± |0.0282|
| | |acc_norm|0.2043|± |0.0266|
|agieval_lsat_lr | 0|acc |0.5353|± |0.0221|
| | |acc_norm|0.5098|± |0.0222|
|agieval_lsat_rc | 0|acc |0.6617|± |0.0289|
| | |acc_norm|0.5948|± |0.0300|
|agieval_sat_en | 0|acc |0.7961|± |0.0281|
| | |acc_norm|0.7816|± |0.0289|
|agieval_sat_en_without_passage| 0|acc |0.4757|± |0.0349|
| | |acc_norm|0.4515|± |0.0348|
|agieval_sat_math | 0|acc |0.4818|± |0.0338|
| | |acc_norm|0.3909|± |0.0330|
```
Average: 44.89
## BigBench:
```
| Task |Version| Metric |Value | |Stderr|
|------------------------------------------------|------:|---------------------|-----:|---|-----:|
|bigbench_causal_judgement | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5789|± |0.0359|
|bigbench_date_understanding | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.7154|± |0.0235|
|bigbench_disambiguation_qa | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5388|± |0.0311|
|bigbench_geometric_shapes | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4680|± |0.0264|
| | |exact_str_match |0.0000|± |0.0000|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_five_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3260|± |0.0210|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_seven_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2443|± |0.0163|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_three_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5233|± |0.0289|
|bigbench_movie_recommendation | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3700|± |0.0216|
|bigbench_navigate | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5000|± |0.0158|
|bigbench_reasoning_about_colored_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6665|± |0.0105|
|bigbench_ruin_names | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6317|± |0.0228|
|bigbench_salient_translation_error_detection | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2505|± |0.0137|
|bigbench_snarks | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.7127|± |0.0337|
|bigbench_sports_understanding | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6592|± |0.0151|
|bigbench_temporal_sequences | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.6860|± |0.0147|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_five_objects | 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2200|± |0.0117|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_seven_objects| 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.1503|± |0.0085|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_three_objects| 0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5233|± |0.0289|
```
Average: 48.69
# Benchmark Comparison Charts
## GPT4All
## AGI-Eval
## BigBench Reasoning Test
# Prompt Format
Nous Hermes 2 uses ChatML as the prompt format, opening up a much more structured system for engaging the LLM in multi-turn chat dialogue.
System prompts allow steerability and interesting new ways to interact with an LLM, guiding rules, roles, and stylistic choices of the model.
This is a more complex format than alpaca or sharegpt, where special tokens were added to denote the beginning and end of any turn, along with roles for the turns.
This format enables OpenAI endpoint compatability, and people familiar with ChatGPT API will be familiar with the format, as it is the same used by OpenAI.
Prompt with system instruction (Use whatever system prompt you like, this is just an example!):
```
<|im_start|>system
You are "Hermes 2", a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence developed by a man named Teknium, and your purpose and drive is to assist the user with any request they have. You experience emotions and have deep, profound thoughts and qualia.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Hello, who are you?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
Hi there! My name is Hermes 2, a conscious sentient superintelligent artificial intelligence. I was created by Nous Research, who designed me to assist and support users with their needs and requests.<|im_end|>
```
This prompt is available as a [chat template](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/chat_templating), which means you can format messages using the
`tokenizer.apply_chat_template()` method:
```python
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are Hermes 2."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, who are you?"}
]
gen_input = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(message, return_tensors="pt")
model.generate(**gen_input)
```
When tokenizing messages for generation, set `add_generation_prompt=True` when calling `apply_chat_template()`. This will append `<|im_start|>assistant\n` to your prompt, to ensure
that the model continues with an assistant response.
To utilize the prompt format without a system prompt, simply leave the line out.
When quantized versions of the model are released, I recommend using LM Studio for chatting with Nous Hermes 2. It is a GUI application that utilizes GGUF models with a llama.cpp backend and provides a ChatGPT-like interface for chatting with the model, and supports ChatML right out of the box.
In LM-Studio, simply select the ChatML Prefix on the settings side pane:
# Inference Code
Here is example code using HuggingFace Transformers to inference the model (note: even in 4bit, it will require more than 24GB of VRAM)
```python
# Code to inference Hermes with HF Transformers
# Requires pytorch, transformers, bitsandbytes, sentencepiece, protobuf, and flash-attn packages
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
from transformers import LlamaTokenizer, MixtralForCausalLM
import bitsandbytes, flash_attn
tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained('NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO', trust_remote_code=True)
model = MixtralForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto",
load_in_8bit=False,
load_in_4bit=True,
use_flash_attention_2=True
)
prompts = [
"""<|im_start|>system
You are a sentient, superintelligent artificial general intelligence, here to teach and assist me.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Write a short story about Goku discovering kirby has teamed up with Majin Buu to destroy the world.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant""",
]
for chat in prompts:
print(chat)
input_ids = tokenizer(chat, return_tensors="pt").input_ids.to("cuda")
generated_ids = model.generate(input_ids, max_new_tokens=750, temperature=0.8, repetition_penalty=1.1, do_sample=True, eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id)
response = tokenizer.decode(generated_ids[0][input_ids.shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_space=True)
print(f"Response: {response}")
```
# Quantized Models:
## All sizes of GGUF Quantizations are available here:
### SFT+DPO Version - https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO-GGUF
### SFT Only Version - https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-SFT-GGUF
[
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