README.md

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datasets:
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inference: false
language:
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license: unknown
model_creator: Technology Innovation Institute
model_link: https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B
model_name: Falcon 180B
model_type: falcon
quantized_by: TheBloke
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# Falcon 180B - GGUF
- Model creator: [Technology Innovation Institute](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae)
- Original model: [Falcon 180B](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B)

## Description

This repo contains GGUF format model files for [Technology Innovation Institute's Falcon 180B](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B).

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### About GGUF

GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp.

The key benefit of GGUF is that it is a extensible, future-proof format which stores more information about the model as metadata. It also includes significantly improved tokenization code, including for the first time full support for special tokens. This should improve performance, especially with models that use new special tokens and implement custom prompt templates.

Here are a list of clients and libraries that are known to support GGUF:
* [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp).
* [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui), the most widely used web UI, with many features and powerful extensions.
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp), a fully featured web UI, with full GPU accel across multiple platforms and GPU architectures. Especially good for story telling.
* [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai/), an easy-to-use and powerful local GUI with GPU acceleration on both Windows (NVidia and AMD), and macOS.
* [LoLLMS Web UI](https://github.com/ParisNeo/lollms-webui), a great web UI with many interesting and unique features, including a full model library for easy model selection.
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers), a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible AI server.
* [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python), a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible API server.
* [candle](https://github.com/huggingface/candle), a Rust ML framework with a focus on performance, including GPU support, and ease of use.

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## Repositories available

* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF)
* [Technology Innovation Institute's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B)
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## Prompt template: None

```
{prompt}

```

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## Compatibility

These quantised GGUF files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 21st 2023 onwards, as of commit [6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9)

They are now also compatible with many third party UIs and libraries - please see the list at the top of the README.

## Explanation of quantisation methods
<details>
  <summary>Click to see details</summary>

The new methods available are:
* GGML_TYPE_Q2_K - "type-1" 2-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weight. Block scales and mins are quantized with 4 bits. This ends up effectively using 2.5625 bits per weight (bpw)
* GGML_TYPE_Q3_K - "type-0" 3-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 6 bits. This end up using 3.4375 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q4_K - "type-1" 4-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 8 blocks, each block having 32 weights. Scales and mins are quantized with 6 bits. This ends up using 4.5 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q5_K - "type-1" 5-bit quantization. Same super-block structure as GGML_TYPE_Q4_K resulting in 5.5 bpw
* GGML_TYPE_Q6_K - "type-0" 6-bit quantization. Super-blocks with 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 8 bits. This ends up using 6.5625 bpw

Refer to the Provided Files table below to see what files use which methods, and how.
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## Provided files

| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| falcon-180b.Q2_K.gguf | Q2_K | 2 | 73.97 GB| 76.47 GB | smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes |
| falcon-180b.Q3_K_S.gguf | Q3_K_S | 3 | 77.77 GB| 80.27 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| falcon-180b.Q3_K_M.gguf | Q3_K_M | 3 | 85.18 GB| 87.68 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| falcon-180b.Q3_K_L.gguf | Q3_K_L | 3 | 91.99 GB| 94.49 GB | small, substantial quality loss |
| falcon-180b.Q4_0.gguf | Q4_0 | 4 | 101.48 GB| 103.98 GB | legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M |
| falcon-180b.Q4_K_S.gguf | Q4_K_S | 4 | 101.48 GB| 103.98 GB | small, greater quality loss |
| falcon-180b.Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 4 | 108.48 GB| 110.98 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| falcon-180b.Q5_0.gguf | Q5_0 | 5 | 123.80 GB| 126.30 GB | legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M |
| falcon-180b.Q5_K_S.gguf | Q5_K_S | 5 | 123.80 GB| 126.30 GB | large, low quality loss - recommended |
| falcon-180b.Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | 5 | 130.99 GB| 133.49 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf | Q6_K | 6 | 147.52 GB| 150.02 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 8 | 190.76 GB| 193.26 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended |

**Note**: the above RAM figures assume no GPU offloading. If layers are offloaded to the GPU, this will reduce RAM usage and use VRAM instead.

### Q6_K and Q8_0 files are split and require joining

**Note:** HF does not support uploading files larger than 50GB. Therefore I have uploaded the Q6_K and Q8_0 files as split files.

<details>
  <summary>Click for instructions regarding Q6_K and Q8_0 files</summary>
   
### q6_K 
Please download:
* `falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a`
* `falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b`

### q8_0
Please download:
* `falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a`
* `falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b`

To join the files, do the following:

Linux and macOS:
```
cat falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-* > falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf && rm falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-*
cat falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-* > falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf && rm falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-*
```
Windows command line:
```
COPY /B falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a + falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf
del falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a falcon-180b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b

COPY /B falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a + falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf
del falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a falcon-180b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b
```

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## Example `llama.cpp` command

Make sure you are using `llama.cpp` from commit [6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/6381d4e110bd0ec02843a60bbeb8b6fc37a9ace9) or later.

For compatibility with older versions of llama.cpp, or for any third-party libraries or clients that haven't yet updated for GGUF, please use GGML files instead.

```
./main -t 10 -ngl 32 -m falcon-180b.q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 4096 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "{prompt}"
```
Change `-t 10` to the number of physical CPU cores you have. For example if your system has 8 cores/16 threads, use `-t 8`. If offloading all layers to GPU, set `-t 1`.

Change `-ngl 32` to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.

Change `-c 4096` to the desired sequence length for this model. For extended sequence models - eg 8K, 16K, 32K - the necessary RoPE scaling parameters are read from the GGUF file and set by llama.cpp automatically.

If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p <PROMPT>` argument with `-i -ins`

For other parameters and how to use them, please refer to [the llama.cpp documentation](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/main/README.md)

## How to run in `text-generation-webui`

Further instructions here: [text-generation-webui/docs/llama.cpp.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/llama.cpp.md).

## How to run from Python code

You can use GGUF models from Python using the [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python) or [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers) libraries.

### How to load this model from Python using ctransformers

#### First install the package

```bash
# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24
# Or with CUDA GPU acceleration
pip install ctransformers[cuda]>=0.2.24
# Or with ROCm GPU acceleration
CT_HIPBLAS=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems
CT_METAL=1 pip install ctransformers>=0.2.24 --no-binary ctransformers
```

#### Simple example code to load one of these GGUF models

```python
from ctransformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

# Set gpu_layers to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Set to 0 if no GPU acceleration is available on your system.
llm = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("TheBloke/Falcon-180B-GGUF", model_file="falcon-180b.q4_K_M.gguf", model_type="falcon", gpu_layers=50)

print(llm("AI is going to"))
```

## How to use with LangChain

Here's guides on using llama-cpp-python or ctransformers with LangChain:

* [LangChain + llama-cpp-python](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/llms/llamacpp)
* [LangChain + ctransformers](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/providers/ctransformers)

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# Original model card: Technology Innovation Institute's Falcon 180B


# 🚀 Falcon-180B

**Falcon-180B is a 180B parameters causal decoder-only model built by [TII](https://www.tii.ae) and trained on 3,500B tokens of [RefinedWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb) enhanced with curated corpora. It is made available under the [Falcon-180B TII License](https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) and [Acceptable Use Policy](https://huggingface.co/spaces/tiiuae/falcon-180b-license/blob/main/ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY.txt).**

*Paper coming soon* 😊


🤗 To get started with Falcon (inference, finetuning, quantization, etc.), we recommend reading [this great blogpost from HF](https://hf.co/blog/falcon-180b) or this [one](https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon) from the release of the 40B!
Note that since the 180B is larger than what can easily be handled with `transformers`+`acccelerate`, we recommend using [Text Generation Inference](https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference).

You will need **at least 400GB of memory** to swiftly run inference with Falcon-180B.

## Why use Falcon-180B?

* **It is the best open-access model currently available, and one of the best model overall.** Falcon-180B outperforms [LLaMA-2](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-hf), [StableLM](https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableLM), [RedPajama](https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/RedPajama-INCITE-Base-7B-v0.1), [MPT](https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b), etc. See the [OpenLLM Leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard).
* **It features an architecture optimized for inference**, with multiquery ([Shazeer et al., 2019](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02150)).
* **It is made available under a permissive license allowing for commercial use**.
* ⚠️ **This is a raw, pretrained model, which should be further finetuned for most usecases.** If you are looking for a version better suited to taking generic instructions in a chat format, we recommend taking a look at [Falcon-180B-Chat](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180b-chat).


💸 **Looking for a smaller, less expensive model?** [Falcon-7B](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b) and [Falcon-40B](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b) are Falcon-180B's little brothers!

💥 **Falcon LLMs require PyTorch 2.0 for use with `transformers`!**


# Model Card for Falcon-180B

## Model Details

### Model Description

- **Developed by:** [https://www.tii.ae](https://www.tii.ae);
- **Model type:** Causal decoder-only;
- **Language(s) (NLP):** English, German, Spanish, French (and limited capabilities in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Czech, Swedish);
- **License:** [Falcon-180B TII License](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B/blob/main/LICENSE.txt) and [Acceptable Use Policy](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B/blob/main/ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY.txt).

### Model Source

- **Paper:** *coming soon*.

## Uses

See the [acceptable use policy](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B/blob/main/ACCEPTABLE_USE_POLICY.txt).

### Direct Use

Research on large language models; as a foundation for further specialization and finetuning for specific usecases (e.g., summarization, text generation, chatbot, etc.)

### Out-of-Scope Use

Production use without adequate assessment of risks and mitigation; any use cases which may be considered irresponsible or harmful.

## Bias, Risks, and Limitations

Falcon-180B is trained mostly on English, German, Spanish, French, with limited capabilities also in in Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Romanian, Czech, Swedish. It will not generalize appropriately to other languages. Furthermore, as it is trained on a large-scale corpora representative of the web, it will carry the stereotypes and biases commonly encountered online.

### Recommendations

We recommend users of Falcon-180B to consider finetuning it for the specific set of tasks of interest, and for guardrails and appropriate precautions to be taken for any production use.

## How to Get Started with the Model

To run inference with the model in full `bfloat16` precision you need approximately 8xA100 80GB or equivalent.



```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import transformers
import torch

model = "tiiuae/falcon-180b"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model)
pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    device_map="auto",
)
sequences = pipeline(
   "Girafatron is obsessed with giraffes, the most glorious animal on the face of this Earth. Giraftron believes all other animals are irrelevant when compared to the glorious majesty of the giraffe.\nDaniel: Hello, Girafatron!\nGirafatron:",
    max_length=200,
    do_sample=True,
    top_k=10,
    num_return_sequences=1,
    eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
)
for seq in sequences:
    print(f"Result: {seq['generated_text']}")

```

## Training Details

### Training Data

Falcon-180B was trained on 3,500B tokens of [RefinedWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb), a high-quality filtered and deduplicated web dataset which we enhanced with curated corpora. Significant components from our curated copora were inspired by The Pile ([Gao et al., 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027)).

| **Data source**    | **Fraction** | **Tokens** | **Sources**                       |
|--------------------|--------------|------------|-----------------------------------|
| [RefinedWeb-English](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb) | 75%          | 750B     | massive web crawl                 |
| RefinedWeb-Europe              | 7%           | 70B       | European massive web crawl                                   |
| Books  | 6%           | 60B        |                  |
| Conversations      | 5%           | 50B        | Reddit, StackOverflow, HackerNews |
| Code               | 5%           | 50B        |                                   |
| Technical          | 2%           | 20B        | arXiv, PubMed, USPTO, etc.        |

RefinedWeb-Europe is made of the following languages:

| **Language** | **Fraction of multilingual data** | **Tokens** |
|--------------|-----------------------------------|------------|
| German       | 26%                               | 18B        |
| Spanish      | 24%                               | 17B        |
| French       | 23%                               | 16B        |
| _Italian_    | 7%                                | 5B         |
| _Portuguese_ | 4%                                | 3B         |
| _Polish_     | 4%                                | 3B         |
| _Dutch_      | 4%                                | 3B         |
| _Romanian_   | 3%                                | 2B         |
| _Czech_      | 3%                                | 2B         |
| _Swedish_    | 2%                                | 1B         |


The data was tokenized with the Falcon tokenizer.

### Training Procedure

Falcon-180B was trained on up to 4,096 A100 40GB GPUs, using a 3D parallelism strategy (TP=8, PP=8, DP=64) combined with ZeRO.

#### Training Hyperparameters

| **Hyperparameter** | **Value**  | **Comment**                               |
|--------------------|------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Precision          | `bfloat16` |                                           |
| Optimizer          | AdamW      |                                           |
| Learning rate      | 1.25e-4       | 4B tokens warm-up, cosine decay to 1.25e-5 |
| Weight decay       | 1e-1       |                                           |
| Z-loss       | 1e-4       |                                           |
| Batch size         | 2048        | 100B tokens ramp-up                         |


#### Speeds, Sizes, Times

Training started in early 2023.

## Evaluation

*Paper coming soon.*

See the [OpenLLM Leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard) for early results.


## Technical Specifications

### Model Architecture and Objective

Falcon-180B is a causal decoder-only model trained on a causal language modeling task (i.e., predict the next token).

The architecture is broadly adapted from the GPT-3 paper ([Brown et al., 2020](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165)), with the following differences:

* **Positionnal embeddings:** rotary ([Su et al., 2021](https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09864));
* **Attention:** multiquery ([Shazeer et al., 2019](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02150)) and FlashAttention ([Dao et al., 2022](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14135));
* **Decoder-block:** parallel attention/MLP with two layer norms.

For multiquery, we are using an internal variant which uses independent key and values per tensor parallel degree (so-called multigroup).

| **Hyperparameter** | **Value** | **Comment**                            |
|--------------------|-----------|----------------------------------------|
| Layers             | 80        |                                        |
| `d_model`          | 14848      |                                        |
| `head_dim`         | 64        | Reduced to optimise for FlashAttention |
| Vocabulary         | 65024     |                                        |
| Sequence length    | 2048      |                                        |

### Compute Infrastructure

#### Hardware

Falcon-180B was trained on AWS SageMaker, on up to 4,096 A100 40GB GPUs in P4d instances.

#### Software

Falcon-180B was trained a custom distributed training codebase, Gigatron. It uses a 3D parallelism approach combined with ZeRO and high-performance Triton kernels (FlashAttention, etc.)


## Citation

*Paper coming soon* 😊 (actually this time). In the meanwhile, you can use the following information to cite:
```
@article{falcon,
  title={The Falcon Series of Language Models: Towards Open Frontier Models},
  author={Almazrouei, Ebtesam and Alobeidli, Hamza and Alshamsi, Abdulaziz and Cappelli, Alessandro and Cojocaru, Ruxandra and Alhammadi, Maitha and Daniele, Mazzotta and Heslow, Daniel and Launay, Julien and Malartic, Quentin and Noune, Badreddine and Pannier, Baptiste and Penedo, Guilherme},
  year={2023}
}
```




To learn more about the pretraining dataset, see the 📓 [RefinedWeb paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01116).

```
@article{refinedweb,
  title={The {R}efined{W}eb dataset for {F}alcon {LLM}: outperforming curated corpora with web data, and web data only},
  author={Guilherme Penedo and Quentin Malartic and Daniel Hesslow and Ruxandra Cojocaru and Alessandro Cappelli and Hamza Alobeidli and Baptiste Pannier and Ebtesam Almazrouei and Julien Launay},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01116},
  eprint={2306.01116},
  eprinttype = {arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01116},
  year={2023}
}
```


## Contact
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