---
license: llama2
model_name: Vicuna 7B v1.5
base_model: lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5
inference: false
model_creator: lmsys
model_type: llama
prompt_template: 'A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant.
The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user''s questions.
USER: {prompt} ASSISTANT:
'
quantized_by: TheBloke
---
# Vicuna 7B v1.5 - AWQ
- Model creator: [lmsys](https://huggingface.co/lmsys)
- Original model: [Vicuna 7B v1.5](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5)
## Description
This repo contains AWQ model files for [lmsys's Vicuna 7B v1.5](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5).
### 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.
It is also now supported by continuous batching server [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm), allowing use of AWQ models for high-throughput concurrent inference in multi-user server scenarios. Note that, at the time of writing, overall throughput is still lower than running vLLM with unquantised models, however using AWQ enables using much smaller GPUs which can lead to easier deployment and overall cost savings. For example, a 70B model can be run on 1 x 48GB GPU instead of 2 x 80GB.
## Repositories available
* [AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-AWQ)
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-GGUF)
* [lmsys's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-v1.5)
## Prompt template: Vicuna
```
A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: {prompt} ASSISTANT:
```
## Provided files and AWQ parameters
For my first release of AWQ models, I am releasing 128g models only. I will consider adding 32g as well if there is interest, and once I have done perplexity and evaluation comparisons, but at this time 32g models are still not fully tested with AutoAWQ and vLLM.
Models are released as sharded safetensors files.
| Branch | Bits | GS | AWQ Dataset | Seq Len | Size |
| ------ | ---- | -- | ----------- | ------- | ---- |
| [main](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-AWQ/tree/main) | 4 | 128 | [wikitext](https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikitext/viewer/wikitext-2-v1/test) | 4096 | 3.89 GB
## Serving this model from vLLM
Documentation on installing and using vLLM [can be found here](https://vllm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
- When using vLLM as a server, pass the `--quantization awq` parameter, for example:
```shell
python3 python -m vllm.entrypoints.api_server --model TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-AWQ --quantization awq
```
When using vLLM from Python code, pass the `quantization=awq` parameter, for example:
```python
from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
prompts = [
"Hello, my name is",
"The president of the United States is",
"The capital of France is",
"The future of AI is",
]
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
llm = LLM(model="TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-AWQ", quantization="awq")
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}")
```
## How to use this AWQ model from Python code
### Install the necessary packages
Requires: [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ) 0.0.2 or later
```shell
pip3 install autoawq
```
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 .
```
### You can then try the following example code
```python
from awq import AutoAWQForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
model_name_or_path = "TheBloke/vicuna-7B-v1.5-AWQ"
# Load model
model = AutoAWQForCausalLM.from_quantized(model_name_or_path, fuse_layers=True,
trust_remote_code=False, safetensors=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path, trust_remote_code=False)
prompt = "Tell me about AI"
prompt_template=f'''A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: {prompt} ASSISTANT:
'''
print("\n\n*** Generate:")
tokens = tokenizer(
prompt_template,
return_tensors='pt'
).input_ids.cuda()
# Generate output
generation_output = model.generate(
tokens,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.95,
top_k=40,
max_new_tokens=512
)
print("Output: ", tokenizer.decode(generation_output[0]))
# Inference can also be done using transformers' pipeline
from transformers import pipeline
print("*** Pipeline:")
pipe = pipeline(
"text-generation",
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
max_new_tokens=512,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_p=0.95,
top_k=40,
repetition_penalty=1.1
)
print(pipe(prompt_template)[0]['generated_text'])
```
## Compatibility
The files provided are tested to work with [AutoAWQ](https://github.com/casper-hansen/AutoAWQ), and [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm).
[Huggingface Text Generation Inference (TGI)](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference) is not yet compatible with AWQ, but a PR is open which should bring support soon: [TGI PR #781](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/issues/781).
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[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.
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# Original model card: lmsys's Vicuna 7B v1.5
# Vicuna Model Card
## Model Details
Vicuna is a chat assistant trained by fine-tuning Llama 2 on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.
- **Developed by:** [LMSYS](https://lmsys.org/)
- **Model type:** An auto-regressive language model based on the transformer architecture
- **License:** Llama 2 Community License Agreement
- **Finetuned from model:** [Llama 2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09288)
### Model Sources
- **Repository:** https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat
- **Blog:** https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-03-30-vicuna/
- **Paper:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05685
- **Demo:** https://chat.lmsys.org/
## Uses
The primary use of Vicuna is research on large language models and chatbots.
The primary intended users of the model are researchers and hobbyists in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
## How to Get Started with the Model
- Command line interface: https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat#vicuna-weights
- APIs (OpenAI API, Huggingface API): https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/tree/main#api
## Training Details
Vicuna v1.5 is fine-tuned from Llama 2 with supervised instruction fine-tuning.
The training data is around 125K conversations collected from ShareGPT.com.
See more details in the "Training Details of Vicuna Models" section in the appendix of this [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05685.pdf).
## Evaluation
Vicuna is evaluated with standard benchmarks, human preference, and LLM-as-a-judge. See more details in this [paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.05685.pdf) and [leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard).
## Difference between different versions of Vicuna
See [vicuna_weights_version.md](https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/blob/main/docs/vicuna_weights_version.md)
