Awesome-LLM VS llama.cpp

Here are some high level answers:

"7B" refers to the number of parameters or weights for a model. For a specific model, the versions with more parameters take more compute power to train and perform better.

A foundational model is the part of a ML model that is "pretrained" on a massive data set (and usually is the bulk of the compute cost). This is usually considered the "raw" model after which it is fine-tuned for specific tasks (turned into a chatbot).

"8K length" refers to the Context Window length (in tokens). This is basically an LLM's short term memory - you can think of it as its attention span and what it can generate reasonable output for.

"1.5T tokens" refers to the size of the corpus of the training set.

In general Wikipedia (or I suppose ChatGPT 4/Bing Chat with Web Browsing) is a decent enough place to start reading/asking basic questions. I'd recommend starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model and finding the related concepts.

For those going deeper, there are lot of general resources lists like https://github.com/Hannibal046/Awesome-LLM or https://github.com/Mooler0410/LLMsPracticalGuide or one I like, https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/llm-reading-list.html (there are a bajillion of these and you'll find more once you get a grasp on the terms you want to surf for). Almost everything is published on arXiv, and most is fairly readable even as a layman.

For non-ML programmers looking to get up to speed, I feel like Karpathy's Zero to Hero/nanoGPT or Jay Mody's picoGPT https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/ are alternative/maybe a better way to understand the basic concepts on a practical level.

Check out this repo, there should be some useful things worth noting https://github.com/Hannibal046/Awesome-LLM

First this is a pretty good starting point as a resource for learning about and finding open source models and the overall public history of progress of LLMs.

This seems fishy as fuck. First red flag is a fishy installer instead of any huggingface link for the model. Upon further search I found this: https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/92686632/#92692092 There are posts in its own sub, r slash freedomgpt, raising concerns, and many new accounts with low karma replying to them(I don't think I can link other subs here, check them yourself), 100% some botting/astroturfing going on. Not touching this. Even in the best case scenario that this is legit with no funny business, this is supposed to be based on llama, which is substantially different tiny model(hence why it can be run on your computer at all). This is no Chatgpt equivalent eitherway. I would recommend getting something more reputable from github if you are interested in running LLMs yourself.

https://github.com/Hannibal046/Awesome-LLM has a curated list of LLM specific resources.

Not the creator, just happened upon it when researching LLMs today.

if you can compile stuff, then looking at llama.cpp (what ollama uses) is also interesting: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

the server is here: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...

And you can search for any GGUF on huggingface

Yes, Metal seems to allow a maximum of 1/2 of the RAM for one process, and 3/4 of the RAM allocated to the GPU overall. There’s a kernel hack to fix it, but that comes with the usual system integrity caveats. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2182

For anyone interested in exploring this, llama.cpp has an example implementation here:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/tree/master/examples/...

Getting started with LLMs can be intimidating. In this tutorial we will show you how to fine-tune a large language model using LoRA, facilitated by tools like llama.cpp and KitOps.

well https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/6849