llamafile VS llama.cpp

I think the llamafile[0] system works the best. Binary works on the command line or launches a mini webserver. Llamafile offers builds of Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct, so presumably they may package this one up as well (potentially a quantized format).

You would have to confirm with someone deeper in the ecosystem, but I think you should be able to run this new model as is against a llamafile?

[0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

Thermostats: https://www.sinopetech.com/en/products/thermostat/

I haven't tried running a local text-to-speech engine backed by an LLM to control Home Assistant. Maybe someone is working on this already?

TTS: https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

LLM: https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

LLM: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-D...

It would take some tweaking to get the voice commands working correctly.

While I did not succeed in making the matmul code from https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/blob/main/llamafil... work in isolation, I compared eigen, openblas, and mkl: https://gist.github.com/Dobiasd/e664c681c4a7933ef5d2df7caa87...

In this (very primitive!) benchmark, MKL was a bit better than eigen (~10%) on my machine (i5-6600).

Since the article https://justine.lol/matmul/ compared the new kernels with MLK, we can (by transitivity) compare the new kernels with Eigen this way, at least very roughly for this one use-case.

Yes, they're just ZIP files that also happen to be actually portable executables.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile?tab=readme-ov-file...

have you seen llamafile[0]?

[0] https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile

llama.cpp has integrated gemma support. So you can use llamafile for this. It is a standalone executable that is portable across most popular OSes.

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases

So, download the executable from the releases page under assets. You want either just main or just server. Don't get the huge ones with the model inlined in the file. The executable is about 30MB in size,

https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/releases/download/...

The improvements in ease of use for locally hosting LLMs over the last few months have been amazing. I was ranting about how easy https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile is just a few hours ago [1]. Now I'm torn as to which one to use :)

1: Quite literally hours ago: https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/

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