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---
base_model: perlthoughts/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE
datasets:
- berkeley-nest/Nectar
inference: false
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
model_creator: Ray Hernandez
model_name: Starling LM Alpha 8X7B MoE
model_type: mixtral
prompt_template: 'GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:

  '
quantized_by: TheBloke
tags:
- reward model
- RLHF
- RLAIF
---
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# Starling LM Alpha 8X7B MoE - GGUF
- Model creator: [Ray Hernandez](https://huggingface.co/perlthoughts)
- Original model: [Starling LM Alpha 8X7B MoE](https://huggingface.co/perlthoughts/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE)

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## Description

This repo contains GGUF format model files for [Ray Hernandez's Starling LM Alpha 8X7B MoE](https://huggingface.co/perlthoughts/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE).

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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.

### Mixtral GGUF

Support for Mixtral was merged into Llama.cpp on December 13th.

These Mixtral GGUFs are known to work in:

* llama.cpp as of December 13th
* KoboldCpp 1.52 as later
* LM Studio 0.2.9 and later
* llama-cpp-python 0.2.23 and later

Other clients/libraries, not listed above, may not yet work.

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## Repositories available

* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF)
* [Ray Hernandez's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/perlthoughts/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE)
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## Prompt template: OpenChat-Correct

```
GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:

```

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## Compatibility

These Mixtral GGUFs are compatible with llama.cpp from December 13th onwards. Other clients/libraries may not work yet.

## 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.
</details>
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## Provided files

| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q2_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q2_K.gguf) | Q2_K | 2 | 15.64 GB| 18.14 GB | smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q3_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 3 | 20.36 GB| 22.86 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_0.gguf) | Q4_0 | 4 | 26.44 GB| 28.94 GB | legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 4 | 26.44 GB| 28.94 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q5_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q5_0.gguf) | Q5_0 | 5 | 32.23 GB| 34.73 GB | legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 5 | 32.23 GB| 34.73 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q6_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q6_K.gguf) | Q6_K | 6 | 38.38 GB| 40.88 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| [starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF/blob/main/starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 8 | 49.63 GB| 52.13 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.



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## 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/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.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/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```

<details>
  <summary>More advanced huggingface-cli download usage (click to read)</summary>

You can also download multiple files at once with a pattern:

```shell
huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-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/Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE-GGUF starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.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.
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## 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 starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 32768 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:"
```

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

Change `-c 32768` 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 <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`

Note that text-generation-webui may not yet be compatible with Mixtral GGUFs. Please check compatibility first.

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) version 0.2.23 and later.

### 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="./starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.Q4_K_M.gguf",  # Download the model file first
  n_ctx=32768,  # 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(
  "GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:", # Prompt
  max_tokens=512,  # Generate up to 512 tokens
  stop=["</s>"],   # 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="./starling-lm-alpha-8x7b-moe.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)

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# Original model card: Ray Hernandez's Starling LM Alpha 8X7B MoE


# Starling-LM-alpha-8x7B-MoE

Starling MoE 8x7B model.

# Original Model Card

# Starling-RM-7B-alpha

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- **Developed by:** Banghua Zhu * , Evan Frick * , Tianhao Wu * , Hanlin Zhu and Jiantao Jiao.
- **Model type:** Language Model finetuned with RLHF / RLAIF
- **License:** Non commercial license
- **Finetuned from model:** [Openchat 3.5](https://huggingface.co/openchat/openchat_3.5) (based on [Mistral-7B-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1))



We introduce Starling-7B, an open large language model (LLM) trained by Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF). The model harnesses the power of our new GPT-4 labeled ranking dataset, [berkeley-nest/Nectar](https://huggingface.co/datasets/berkeley-nest/Nectar), and our new reward training and policy tuning pipeline. Starling-7B-alpha scores 8.09 in MT Bench with GPT-4 as a judge, outperforming every model to date on MT-Bench except for OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-4 Turbo. We release the ranking dataset [Nectar](https://huggingface.co/datasets/berkeley-nest/Nectar), the reward model [Starling-RM-7B-alpha](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-RM-7B-alpha) and the language model [Starling-LM-7B-alpha](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha) on HuggingFace, and an online demo in LMSYS [Chatbot Arena](https://chat.lmsys.org). Stay tuned for our forthcoming code and paper, which will provide more details on the whole process.

Starling-LM-7B-alpha is a language model trained from [Openchat 3.5](https://huggingface.co/openchat/openchat_3.5) with reward model [berkeley-nest/Starling-RM-7B-alpha](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-RM-7B-alpha) and policy optimization method [advantage-induced policy alignment (APA)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02231). The evaluation results are listed below.


| Model                 | Tuning Method    | MT Bench | AlpacaEval | MMLU |
|-----------------------|------------------|----------|------------|------|
| GPT-4-Turbo           | ?                | 9.32     | 97.70      |      |
| GPT-4                 | SFT + PPO        | 8.99     | 95.28      | 86.4 |
| **Starling-7B**           | C-RLFT + APA     | 8.09     | 91.99      | 63.9 |
| Claude-2              | ?                | 8.06     | 91.36      | 78.5 |
| GPT-3.5-Turbo         | ?                | 7.94     | 89.37      | 70   |
| Claude-1              | ?                | 7.9      | 88.39      | 77   |
| Tulu-2-dpo-70b        | SFT + DPO        | 7.89     | 95.1       |      |
| Openchat-3.5          | C-RLFT           | 7.81     | 88.51      | 64.3 |
| Zephyr-7B-beta        | SFT + DPO        | 7.34     | 90.60      | 61.4 |
| Llama-2-70b-chat-hf   | SFT + PPO        | 6.86     | 92.66      | 63   |
| Neural-chat-7b-v3-1   | SFT + DPO        | 6.84     | 84.53      | 62.4 |
| Tulu-2-dpo-7b         | SFT + DPO        | 6.29     | 85.1       |      |



For more detailed discussions, please check out our [blog post](https://starling.cs.berkeley.edu), and stay tuned for our upcoming code and paper!
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- **Blog:** https://starling.cs.berkeley.edu/
- **Paper:** Coming soon!
- **Code:** Coming soon!



## Uses

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**Important: Please use the exact chat template provided below for the model. Otherwise there will be a degrade in the performance. The model output can be verbose in rare cases. Please consider setting temperature = 0 to make this happen less.**

Our model follows the exact chat template and usage as [Openchat 3.5](https://huggingface.co/openchat/openchat_3.5). Please refer to their model card for more details.
In addition, our model is hosted on LMSYS [Chatbot Arena](https://chat.lmsys.org) for free test.

The conversation template is the same as Openchat 3.5:
```
import transformers
tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("openchat/openchat_3.5")

# Single-turn
tokens = tokenizer("GPT4 Correct User: Hello<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:").input_ids
assert tokens == [1, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 1247, 28747, 22557, 32000, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 21631, 28747]

# Multi-turn
tokens = tokenizer("GPT4 Correct User: Hello<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant: Hi<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct User: How are you today?<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:").input_ids
assert tokens == [1, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 1247, 28747, 22557, 32000, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 21631, 28747, 15359, 32000, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 1247, 28747, 1602, 460, 368, 3154, 28804, 32000, 420, 6316, 28781, 3198, 3123, 21631, 28747]

# Coding Mode
tokens = tokenizer("Code User: Implement quicksort using C++<|end_of_turn|>Code Assistant:").input_ids
assert tokens == [1, 7596, 1247, 28747, 26256, 2936, 7653, 1413, 334, 1680, 32000, 7596, 21631, 28747]
```
## Code Examples

```python
import transformers

tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha")
model = transformers.AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha")

def generate_response(prompt):
    input_ids = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").input_ids
    outputs = model.generate(
        input_ids,
        max_length=256,
        pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
        eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
    )
    response_ids = outputs[0]
    response_text = tokenizer.decode(response_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
    return response_text

# Single-turn conversation
prompt = "Hello, how are you?"
single_turn_prompt = f"GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:"
response_text = generate_response(single_turn_prompt)
print("Response:", response_text)

## Multi-turn conversation
prompt = "Hello"
follow_up_question =  "How are you today?"
response = ""
multi_turn_prompt = f"GPT4 Correct User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant: {response}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct User: {follow_up_question}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant:"
response_text = generate_response(multi_turn_prompt)
print("Multi-turn conversation response:", response_text)

### Coding conversation
prompt = "Implement quicksort using C++"
coding_prompt = f"Code User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>Code Assistant:"
response = generate_response(coding_prompt)
print("Coding conversation response:", response)
```

## License
The dataset, model and online demo is a research preview intended for non-commercial use only, subject to the data distillation [License](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md) of LLaMA, [Terms of Use](https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use) of the data generated by OpenAI, and [Privacy Practices](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sharegpt-share-your-chatg/daiacboceoaocpibfodeljbdfacokfjb) of ShareGPT. Please contact us if you find any potential violation.


## Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Wei-Lin Chiang from Berkeley for detailed feedback of the blog and the projects. We would like to thank the [LMSYS Organization](https://lmsys.org/) for their support of [lmsys-chat-1M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmsys/lmsys-chat-1m) dataset, evaluation and online demo. We would like to thank the open source community for their efforts in providing the datasets and base models we used to develope the project, including but not limited to Anthropic, Llama, Mistral, Hugging Face H4, LMSYS, OpenChat, OpenBMB, Flan and ShareGPT.

## Citation
```
@misc{starling2023,
    title = {Starling-7B: Improving LLM Helpfulness & Harmlessness with RLAIF},
    url = {},
    author = {Zhu, Banghua and Frick, Evan and Wu, Tianhao and Zhu, Hanlin and Jiao, Jiantao},
    month = {November},
    year = {2023}
}
```

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