basaran VS alpaca_lora_4bit

What are the current best "no reinventing the wheel" approaches to have Langchain use an LLM through a locally hosted REST API, the likes of Oobabooga or hyperonym/basaran with streaming support for 4-bit GPTQ?

Disclaimer: I am curating LLM-tools on github [1]

A few thoughts:

* allow for custom endpoint URLs, this way people can use open source LLMs with a fake openAI API backend like basaran[2] or llama-api-server[3]

* look into better embedding methods for info-retrieval like InstructorEmbeddings or Document Summary Index

* Don't use a single embedding per content item, use multiple to increase retrieval quality

1 https://github.com/underlines/awesome-marketing-datascience/...

2 https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran

3 https://github.com/iaalm/llama-api-server

open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API (https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran)

Guanaco-65B[0] using Basaran[1] for your OpenAI compatible API. You can use any ChatGPT front-end which lets you change the OpenAI endpoint URL.

[0] An fp4 finetune of LLaMA-30B by Tim Dettmers

[1] https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran

For lm-eval, I think you'd either need to take GPTQ's inference script and shim it into a model: https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness/tree/master/lm_eval/models or you might be able to use a project like https://github.com/hyperonym/basaran and then you could use the gpt3 model...

There are also: - Basaran repo: "Basaran is an open-source alternative to the OpenAI text completion API. It provides a compatible streaming API for your Hugging Face Transformers-based text generation models". "...Compatibility with OpenAI API and client libraries..."; - llama-cpp-python repo: "Simple Python bindings for @ggerganov's llama.cpp library...". "...OpenAI-like API...".

I want to start with a totally freely available model, so again, that excludes things like LLaMA where the weights are only available through a wait list. The two models that most get my attention and (I think, and hope) fit my criteria of open availability are Cerebras-GPT (13b) and Bloomz (7b). The tools to process and fine-tune that seem most feasible to me, from my limit knowledge, are xturing and basaran.

For training there is also https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit

I've been trying to fine tune an erotica model on some large context chat history (reverse proxy logs) and a literotica-instruct dataset I made, with a max context of 8k. The large context size eats a lot of VRAM so I've been trying to find the most efficient way to experiment considering I'd like to do multiple runs to test some ideas. So I'm going to try and use https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit, which is supposed to train faster and use less memory than qlora.

Follow up the popular work of u/tloen alpaca-lora, I wrapped the setup of alpaca_lora_4bit to add support for GPTQ training in form of installable pip packages. You can perform training and inference with multiple quantizations method to compare the results.

" Using LoRAs with GPTQ-for-LLaMa This requires using a monkey patch that is supported by this web UI: https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit"

4-bit GPTQ LoRA training was available since early April. I did not see any comparison to it in the QLoRA paper or even a mention, so it makes me think they were not aware it already existed.

https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit is still the SOTA - Faster than qlora, trains on a GPTQ base.

I would also like to know how one would finetune this in 4 bit? I think one could take the merged 8K PEFT with the LLaMA weights, and then quantize it to 4 bit, and then train with https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit ?

I was under the impression that you just git clone this repo into text-generation-webui/repositories (so you would have GPTQ_for_Llama and alpaca_lora_4bit in the folder), and then just load with monkey patch. Is that not correct? I also tried just downloading alpaca_lora_4bit on its own, git cloning text-gen-webui within it, and installing requirements.txt for both and running with monkey patch. I was following the sections of alpaca_lora_4bit, "Text Generation Webui Monkey Patch" and "monkey patch inside webui"

I dont have any familiarity with esxi, but I can say that there are quite a few posts about people doing it on proxmox. I've currently got a machine with 2x3090 passing through to VM's. When I'm training, I pass them both through to the same VM and can do lora 4-bit training on llama33 using https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit. Then, at inference time, I run a single card into a different VM, and have an extra card available for experimentation.