text-generation-inference VS FlexGen

I wanted to write that TGI inference engine is not Open Source anymore, but they have reverted the license back to Apache 2.0 for the new version TGI v2.0: https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference/rel...

Good news!

Setting up a server for multiple users is very different from setting up LLM for yourself. A safe bet would be to just use TGI, which supports continuous batching and is very easy to run via Docker on your server. https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference

Okay, I actually got local co-pilot set up. You will need these 4 things.

1) CodeLlama 13B or another FIM model https://huggingface.co/codellama/CodeLlama-13b-hf. You want "Fill in Middle" models because you're looking at context on both sides of your cursor.

2) HuggingFace llm-ls https://github.com/huggingface/llm-ls A large language mode Language Server (is this making sense yet)

3) HuggingFace inference framework. https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference At least when I tested you couldn't use something like llama.cpp or exllama with the llm-ls, so you need to break out the heavy duty badboy HuggingFace inference server. Just config and run. Now config and run llm-ls.

4) Okay, I mean you need an editor. I just tried nvim, and this was a few weeks ago, so there may be better support. My expereicen was that is was full honest to god copilot. The CodeLlama models are known to be quite good for its size. The FIM part is great. Boilerplace works so much easier with the surrounding context. I'd like to see more models released that can work this way.

A simple microservice would be https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference .

Works flawlessly in Docker on my Windows machine, which is extremely shocking.

I am wondering what is the best / most cost-efficient way to serve llama V2. - llama.cpp (is it production ready or just for playing around?) ? - Triton inference server ? - HF text generation inference ?

LLaMA, Pythia, RWKV, Flan-T5 (self-hosted), FlexGen

> With no real knowledge of LLM and only recently started to understand what LLM terms mean, such as 'model, inference, LLM model, intruction set, fine tuning' whatelse do you think is required to make a took like yours?

This was mee a few weeks ago. I got interested in all this when FlexGen (https://github.com/FMInference/FlexGen) was announced, which allowed to run inference using OPT model on consumer hardware. I'm an avid user of Stable Diffusion, and I wanted to see if I can have an SD equivalent of ChatGPT.

Not understanding the details of hyperparameters or terminology, I basically asked ChatGPT to explain to me what these things are:

   Explain to someone who is a software engineer with limited knowledge of ML terms or linear algebra, what is "feed forward" and "self-attention" in the context of ML and large language models. Provide examples when possible.