---
base_model: royallab/Aetheria-L2-70B
inference: false
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: other
model_creator: The Royal Lab
model_name: Aetheria L2 70B
model_type: llama
pipeline_tag: text-generation
prompt_template: "### Instruction:\nCharacter's Persona: bot character description\n\
\nUser's persona: user character description\n \nScenario: what happens in the\
\ story\n\nPlay the role of Character. You must engage in a roleplaying chat with\
\ User below this line. Do not write dialogues and narration for User. Character\
\ should respond with messages of medium length.\n\n### Input:\nUser: {prompt}\n\
\n### Response:\nCharacter: \n"
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- llama
- llama 2
---
# Aetheria L2 70B - GGUF
- Model creator: [The Royal Lab](https://huggingface.co/royallab)
- Original model: [Aetheria L2 70B](https://huggingface.co/royallab/Aetheria-L2-70B)
## Description
This repo contains GGUF format model files for [The Royal Lab's Aetheria L2 70B](https://huggingface.co/royallab/Aetheria-L2-70B).
These files were quantised using hardware kindly provided by [Massed Compute](https://massedcompute.com/).
### 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.
Here is an incomplete list of clients and libraries that are known to support GGUF:
* [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp). The source project for GGUF. Offers a CLI and a server option.
* [text-generation-webui](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui), the most widely used web UI, with many features and powerful extensions. Supports GPU acceleration.
* [KoboldCpp](https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp), a fully featured web UI, with GPU accel across all platforms and GPU architectures. Especially good for story telling.
* [GPT4All](https://gpt4all.io/index.html), a free and open source local running GUI, supporting Windows, Linux and macOS with full GPU accel.
* [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai/), an easy-to-use and powerful local GUI for Windows and macOS (Silicon), with GPU acceleration. Linux available, in beta as of 27/11/2023.
* [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.
* [Faraday.dev](https://faraday.dev/), an attractive and easy to use character-based chat GUI for Windows and macOS (both Silicon and Intel), with GPU acceleration.
* [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.
* [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers), a Python library with GPU accel, LangChain support, and OpenAI-compatible AI server. Note, as of time of writing (November 27th 2023), ctransformers has not been updated in a long time and does not support many recent models.
## Repositories available
* [AWQ model(s) for GPU inference.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-AWQ)
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF)
* [The Royal Lab's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/royallab/Aetheria-L2-70B)
## Prompt template: LimaRP-Alpaca
```
### Instruction:
Character's Persona: bot character description
User's persona: user character description
Scenario: what happens in the story
Play the role of Character. You must engage in a roleplaying chat with User below this line. Do not write dialogues and narration for User. Character should respond with messages of medium length.
### Input:
User: {prompt}
### Response:
Character:
```
## Compatibility
These quantised GGUFv2 files are compatible with llama.cpp from August 27th onwards, as of commit [d0cee0d](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/d0cee0d36d5be95a0d9088b674dbb27354107221)
They are also compatible with many third party UIs and libraries - please see the list at the top of this README.
## Explanation of quantisation methods
Click to see details
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.
## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q2_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q2_K.gguf) | Q2_K | 2 | 29.28 GB| 31.78 GB | smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_S.gguf) | Q3_K_S | 3 | 29.92 GB| 32.42 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 3 | 33.19 GB| 35.69 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_L.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q3_K_L.gguf) | Q3_K_L | 3 | 36.15 GB| 38.65 GB | small, substantial quality loss |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_0.gguf) | Q4_0 | 4 | 38.87 GB| 41.37 GB | legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_S.gguf) | Q4_K_S | 4 | 39.07 GB| 41.57 GB | small, greater quality loss |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 4 | 41.42 GB| 43.92 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_0.gguf) | Q5_0 | 5 | 47.46 GB| 49.96 GB | legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_K_S.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_K_S.gguf) | Q5_K_S | 5 | 47.46 GB| 49.96 GB | large, low quality loss - recommended |
| [aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF/blob/main/aetheria-l2-70b.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 5 | 48.75 GB| 51.25 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf | Q6_K | 6 | 56.59 GB| 59.09 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 8 | 73.29 GB| 75.79 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.
Click for instructions regarding Q6_K and Q8_0 files
### q6_K
Please download:
* `aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a`
* `aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b`
### q8_0
Please download:
* `aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a`
* `aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b`
To join the files, do the following:
Linux and macOS:
```
cat aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-* > aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf && rm aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-*
cat aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-* > aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf && rm aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-*
```
Windows command line:
```
COPY /B aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a + aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf
del aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-a aetheria-l2-70b.Q6_K.gguf-split-b
COPY /B aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a + aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf
del aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-a aetheria-l2-70b.Q8_0.gguf-split-b
```
## How to download GGUF files
**Note for manual downloaders:** You almost never want to clone the entire repo! Multiple different quantisation formats are provided, and most users only want to pick and download a single file.
The following clients/libraries will automatically download models for you, providing a list of available models to choose from:
* LM Studio
* LoLLMS Web UI
* Faraday.dev
### In `text-generation-webui`
Under Download Model, you can enter the model repo: TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf.
Then click Download.
### On the command line, including multiple files at once
I recommend using the `huggingface-hub` Python library:
```shell
pip3 install huggingface-hub
```
Then you can download any individual model file to the current directory, at high speed, with a command like this:
```shell
huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```
More advanced huggingface-cli download usage (click to read)
You can also download multiple files at once with a pattern:
```shell
huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False --include='*Q4_K*gguf'
```
For more documentation on downloading with `huggingface-cli`, please see: [HF -> Hub Python Library -> Download files -> Download from the CLI](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/download#download-from-the-cli).
To accelerate downloads on fast connections (1Gbit/s or higher), install `hf_transfer`:
```shell
pip3 install hf_transfer
```
And set environment variable `HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER` to `1`:
```shell
HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Aetheria-L2-70B-GGUF aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```
Windows Command Line users: You can set the environment variable by running `set HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1` before the download command.
## Example `llama.cpp` command
Make sure you are using `llama.cpp` from commit [d0cee0d](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/d0cee0d36d5be95a0d9088b674dbb27354107221) or later.
```shell
./main -ngl 35 -m aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 4096 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "### Instruction:\nCharacter's Persona: bot character description\n\nUser's persona: user character description\n \nScenario: what happens in the story\n\nPlay the role of Character. You must engage in a roleplaying chat with User below this line. Do not write dialogues and narration for User. Character should respond with messages of medium length.\n\n### Input:\nUser: {prompt}\n\n### Response:\nCharacter:"
```
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 extended sequence models - eg 8K, 16K, 32K - the necessary RoPE scaling parameters are read from the GGUF file and set by llama.cpp automatically. Note that longer sequence lengths require much more resources, so you may need to reduce this value.
If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p ` 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 can be found in the text-generation-webui documentation, here: [text-generation-webui/docs/04 ‐ Model Tab.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/04%20%E2%80%90%20Model%20Tab.md#llamacpp).
## 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. Note that at the time of writing (Nov 27th 2023), ctransformers has not been updated for some time and is not compatible with some recent models. Therefore I recommend you use llama-cpp-python.
### How to load this model in Python code, using llama-cpp-python
For full documentation, please see: [llama-cpp-python docs](https://abetlen.github.io/llama-cpp-python/).
#### First install the package
Run one of the following commands, according to your system:
```shell
# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install llama-cpp-python
# With NVidia CUDA acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CUBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with OpenBLAS acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with CLBLast acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CLBLAST=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with AMD ROCm GPU acceleration (Linux only)
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_HIPBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems only
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_METAL=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# In windows, to set the variables CMAKE_ARGS in PowerShell, follow this format; eg for NVidia CUDA:
$env:CMAKE_ARGS = "-DLLAMA_OPENBLAS=on"
pip install llama-cpp-python
```
#### Simple llama-cpp-python example code
```python
from llama_cpp import Llama
# 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 = Llama(
model_path="./aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf", # Download the model file first
n_ctx=4096, # The max sequence length to use - note that longer sequence lengths require much more resources
n_threads=8, # The number of CPU threads to use, tailor to your system and the resulting performance
n_gpu_layers=35 # The number of layers to offload to GPU, if you have GPU acceleration available
)
# Simple inference example
output = llm(
"### Instruction:\nCharacter's Persona: bot character description\n\nUser's persona: user character description\n \nScenario: what happens in the story\n\nPlay the role of Character. You must engage in a roleplaying chat with User below this line. Do not write dialogues and narration for User. Character should respond with messages of medium length.\n\n### Input:\nUser: {prompt}\n\n### Response:\nCharacter:", # Prompt
max_tokens=512, # Generate up to 512 tokens
stop=[""], # Example stop token - not necessarily correct for this specific model! Please check before using.
echo=True # Whether to echo the prompt
)
# Chat Completion API
llm = Llama(model_path="./aetheria-l2-70b.Q4_K_M.gguf", chat_format="llama-2") # Set chat_format according to the model you are using
llm.create_chat_completion(
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a story writing assistant."},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a story about llamas."
}
]
)
```
## How to use with LangChain
Here are guides on using llama-cpp-python and 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: The Royal Lab's Aetheria L2 70B
# Aetheria-L2-70B
This is a [Llama 2](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b)-based model consisting of a merge between:
- [Sao10K/Euryale-1.3-L2-70B](https://huggingface.co/Sao10K/Euryale-1.3-L2-70B)
- [allenai/tulu-2-dpo-70b](https://huggingface.co/allenai/tulu-2-dpo-70b)
- [GOAT-AI/GOAT-70B-Storytelling](https://huggingface.co/GOAT-AI/GOAT-70B-Storytelling)
- [Doctor-Shotgun/limarpv3-llama2-70b-qlora](https://huggingface.co/Doctor-Shotgun/limarpv3-llama2-70b-qlora)
This model combines the excellent Euryale v1.3 base with the DPO training of the Tulu v2 model and creative prose training of the GOAT Storytelling model. The LimaRP v3 qlora was then added for further roleplaying capability and the ability to tune the length of the outputs.
The goal was to create a capable 70B model for collaborative storytelling and roleplay.
## Usage:
The intended prompt format is the Alpaca instruction format of LimaRP v3:
```
### Instruction:
Character's Persona: {bot character description}
User's Persona: {user character description}
Scenario: {what happens in the story}
Play the role of Character. You must engage in a roleplaying chat with User below this line. Do not write dialogues and narration for User.
### Input:
User: {utterance}
### Response:
Character: {utterance}
### Input
User: {utterance}
### Response:
Character: {utterance}
(etc.)
```
## Message length control
Due to the inclusion of LimaRP v3, it is possible to append a length modifier to the response instruction sequence, like this:
```
### Input
User: {utterance}
### Response: (length = medium)
Character: {utterance}
```
This has an immediately noticeable effect on bot responses. The available lengths are: `micro, tiny, short, medium, long, massive, huge, enormous, humongous, unlimited`. The recommended starting length is `medium`. Keep in mind that the AI may ramble or impersonate the user with very long messages.
## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
The model will show biases similar to those observed in niche roleplaying forums on the Internet, besides those exhibited by the base model. It is not intended for supplying factual information or advice in any form.
## Training Details
This model is a merge. Please refer to the link repositories of the merged models for details.