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TII's Falcon 7B Instruct GGML

These files are GGML format model files for TII's Falcon 7B Instruct .

These files will not work in llama.cpp, text-generation-webui or KoboldCpp.

GGCC is a new format created in a new fork of llama.cpp that introduced this new Falcon GGML-based support: cmp-nc/ggllm.cpp .

Currently these files will also not work with code that previously supported Falcon, such as LoLLMs Web UI and ctransformers. But support should be added soon.

Repositories available

• 4-bit GPTQ models for GPU inference
• 4, 5, and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference
• Unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions

Prompt template: Falcon

User: prompt
Assistant:

Compatibility

To build cmp-nct's fork of llama.cpp with Falcon support plus CUDA acceleration, please try the following steps:

git clone https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp
cd ggllm.cpp
rm -rf build && mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DGGML_CUBLAS=1 .. && cmake --build . --config Release

Compiling on Windows: developer cmp-nct notes: 'I personally compile it using VScode. When compiling with CUDA support using the Microsoft compiler it's essential to select the "Community edition build tools". Otherwise CUDA won't compile.'

Once compiled you can then use bin/falcon_main just like you would use llama.cpp. For example:

bin/falcon_main -t 8 -ngl 100 -b 1 -m falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q4_0.bin -enc -p "write a story about llamas"

Parameter -enc should automatically use the right prompt template for the model, so you can just enter your desired prompt.

You can specify -ngl 100 regardles of your VRAM, as it will automatically detect how much VRAM is available to be used.

Adjust -t 8 (the number of CPU cores to use) according to what performs best on your system. Do not exceed the number of physical CPU cores you have.

-b 1 reduces batch size to 1. This slightly lowers prompt evaluation time, but frees up VRAM to load more of the model on to your GPU. If you find prompt evaluation too slow and have enough spare VRAM, you can remove this parameter.

Please see https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp for further details and instructions.

Provided files

Name	Quant method	Bits	Size	Max RAM required	Use case
falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q4_0.bin	q4_0	4	4.06 GB	6.56 GB	Original quant method, 4-bit.
falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q4_1.bin	q4_1	4	4.51 GB	7.01 GB	Original quant method, 4-bit. Higher accuracy than q4_0 but not as high as q5_0. However has quicker inference than q5 models.
falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q5_0.bin	q5_0	5	4.96 GB	7.46 GB	Original quant method, 5-bit. Higher accuracy, higher resource usage and slower inference.
falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q5_1.bin	q5_1	5	5.42 GB	7.92 GB	Original quant method, 5-bit. Even higher accuracy, resource usage and slower inference.
falcon-7b-instruct.ggccv1.q8_0.bin	q8_0	8	7.67 GB	10.17 GB	Original quant method, 8-bit. Almost indistinguishable from float16. High resource use and slow. Not recommended for most users.

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.

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Original model card: TII's Falcon 7B Instruct

✨ Falcon-7B-Instruct

Falcon-7B-Instruct is a 7B parameters causal decoder-only model built by TII based on Falcon-7B and finetuned on a mixture of chat/instruct datasets. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Paper coming soon ?.

? To get started with Falcon (inference, finetuning, quantization, etc.), we recommend reading this great blogpost fron HF !

Why use Falcon-7B-Instruct?

• You are looking for a ready-to-use chat/instruct model based on Falcon-7B .
• Falcon-7B is a strong base model, outperforming comparable open-source models (e.g., MPT-7B , StableLM , RedPajama etc.), thanks to being trained on 1,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard .
• It features an architecture optimized for inference , with FlashAttention ( Dao et al., 2022 ) and multiquery ( Shazeer et al., 2019 ).

? This is an instruct model, which may not be ideal for further finetuning. If you are interested in building your own instruct/chat model, we recommend starting from Falcon-7B .

? Looking for an even more powerful model? Falcon-40B-Instruct is Falcon-7B-Instruct's big brother!

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import transformers
import torch

model = "tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct"

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']}")

? Falcon LLMs require PyTorch 2.0 for use with transformers !

For fast inference with Falcon, check-out Text Generation Inference ! Read more in this blogpost .

You will need at least 16GB of memory to swiftly run inference with Falcon-7B-Instruct.

Model Card for Falcon-7B-Instruct

Model Details

Model Description

• Developed by: https://www.tii.ae ;
• Model type: Causal decoder-only;
• Language(s) (NLP): English and French;
• License: Apache 2.0;
• Finetuned from model: Falcon-7B .

Model Source

• Paper: coming soon .

Uses

Direct Use

Falcon-7B-Instruct has been finetuned on a mixture of instruct and chat datasets.

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-7B-Instruct is mostly trained on English data, and 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-7B-Instruct to develop guardrails and to take appropriate precautions for any production use.

How to Get Started with the Model

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import transformers
import torch

model = "tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct"

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-7B-Instruct was finetuned on a 250M tokens mixture of instruct/chat datasets.

Data source	Fraction	Tokens	Description
Bai ze	65%	164M	chat
GPT4All	25%	62M	instruct
GPTeacher	5%	11M	instruct
RefinedWeb-English	5%	13M	massive web crawl

The data was tokenized with the Falcon- 7B / 40B tokenizer.

Evaluation

Paper coming soon.

See the OpenLLM Leaderboard for early results.

Note that this model variant is not optimized for NLP benchmarks.

Technical Specifications

For more information about pretraining, see Falcon-7B .

Model Architecture and Objective

Falcon-7B 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 ), with the following differences:

• Positionnal embeddings: rotary ( Su et al., 2021 );
• Attention: multiquery ( Shazeer et al., 2019 ) and FlashAttention ( Dao et al., 2022 );
• Decoder-block: parallel attention/MLP with a single layer norm.

Hyperparameter	Value	Comment
Layers	32
d_model	4544	Increased to compensate for multiquery
head_dim	64	Reduced to optimise for FlashAttention
Vocabulary	65024
Sequence length	2048

Compute Infrastructure

Hardware

Falcon-7B-Instruct was trained on AWS SageMaker, on 32 A100 40GB GPUs in P4d instances.

Software

Falcon-7B-Instruct 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 ?. In the meanwhile, you can use the following information to cite:

@article{falcon40b,
  title={{Falcon-40B}: an open large language model with state-of-the-art performance},
  author={Almazrouei, Ebtesam and Alobeidli, Hamza and Alshamsi, Abdulaziz and Cappelli, Alessandro and Cojocaru, Ruxandra and Debbah, Merouane and Goffinet, Etienne 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 .

@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}
}

License

Falcon-7B-Instruct is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Contact

falconllm@tii.ae