llama.cpp VS FastChat

Compare llama.cpp vs FastChat and see what are their differences.

llama.cpp

LLM inference in C/C++ (by ggerganov)

FastChat

An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena. (by lm-sys)
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llama.cpp FastChat
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10.0 9.6
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C++ Python
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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llama.cpp

Posts with mentions or reviews of llama.cpp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-21.
  • Phi-3 Weights Released
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    well https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/6849
  • Lossless Acceleration of LLM via Adaptive N-Gram Parallel Decoding
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Apr 2024
  • Llama.cpp Working on Support for Llama3
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Apr 2024
  • Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    Have just done this recently for local chat with pdf feature in https://recurse.chat. (It's a macOS app that has built-in llama.cpp server and local vector database)

    Running an embedding server locally is pretty straightforward:

    - Get llama.cpp release binary: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases

  • Mixtral 8x22B
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
  • Llama.cpp: Improve CPU prompt eval speed
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
  • Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    Ah, thanks for this! I can't edit my parent comment that you replied to any longer unfortunately.

    As I said, I only compared the contributors graphs [0] and checked for overlaps. But those apparently only go back about year and only list at most 100 contributors ranked by number of commits.

    [0]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/graphs/contributors

  • KodiBot - Local Chatbot App for Desktop
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Apr 2024
    KodiBot is a desktop app that enables users to run their own AI chat assistants locally and offline on Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems. KodiBot is a standalone app and does not require an internet connection or additional dependencies to run local chat assistants. It supports both Llama.cpp compatible models and OpenAI API.
  • Mixture-of-Depths: Dynamically allocating compute in transformers
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    There are already some implementations out there which attempt to accomplish this!

    Here's an example: https://github.com/silphendio/sliced_llama

    A gist pertaining to said example: https://gist.github.com/silphendio/535cd9c1821aa1290aa10d587...

    Here's a discussion about integrating this capability with ExLlama: https://github.com/turboderp/exllamav2/pull/275

    And same as above but for llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/4718#issuecomm...

  • The lifecycle of a code AI completion
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    For those who might not be aware of this, there is also an open source project on GitHub called "Twinny" which is an offline Visual Studio Code plugin equivalent to Copilot: https://github.com/rjmacarthy/twinny

    It can be used with a number of local model services. Currently for my setup on a NVIDIA 4090, I'm running both the base and instruct model for deepseek-coder 6.7b using 5_K_M Quantization GGUF files (for performance) through llama.cpp "server" where the base model is for completions and the instruct model for chat interactions.

    llama.cpp: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/

    deepseek-coder 6.7b base GGUF files: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/deepseek-coder-6.7B-base-GGU...

    deepseek-coder 6.7b instruct GGUF files: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/deepseek-coder-6.7B-instruct...

FastChat

Posts with mentions or reviews of FastChat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing llama.cpp and FastChat you can also consider the following projects:

ollama - Get up and running with Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and other large language models.

text-generation-webui - A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models. Supports transformers, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, llama.cpp (GGUF), Llama models.

gpt4all - gpt4all: run open-source LLMs anywhere

bitsandbytes - Accessible large language models via k-bit quantization for PyTorch.

GPTQ-for-LLaMa - 4 bits quantization of LLaMA using GPTQ

LocalAI - :robot: The free, Open Source OpenAI alternative. Self-hosted, community-driven and local-first. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more models architectures. It allows to generate Text, Audio, Video, Images. Also with voice cloning capabilities.

ggml - Tensor library for machine learning

llama-cpp-python - Python bindings for llama.cpp

alpaca.cpp - Locally run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM

mlc-llm - Enable everyone to develop, optimize and deploy AI models natively on everyone's devices.