Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF

Author: bartowski
Downloads: 74,198
Likes: 249
License: LLAMA3.1
Created: Jul 23, 2024
Last Modified: Dec 1, 2024

Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Using llama.cpp release b3472 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Torrent files

https://aitorrent.zerroug.de/bartowski-meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-gguf-torrent/

Prompt format

<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|>

Cutting Knowledge Date: December 2023
Today Date: 26 Jul 2024

{system_prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>

{prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>

What's new

  • 30-07-2024: Updated chat template to fix small bug with tool usage being undefined, if you don't use the built-in chat template it shouldn't change anything

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:

FilenameQuant typeFile SizeSplitDescription
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-f32.gguff3232.13GBfalseFull F32 weights.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q8_0.ggufQ8_08.54GBfalseExtremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q6_K_L.ggufQ6_K_L6.85GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q6_K.ggufQ6_K6.60GBfalseVery high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q5_K_L.ggufQ5_K_L6.06GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q5_K_M.ggufQ5_K_M5.73GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q5_K_S.ggufQ5_K_S5.60GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_L.ggufQ4_K_L5.31GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.ggufQ4_K_M4.92GBfalseGood quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_XL.ggufQ3_K_XL4.78GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_S.ggufQ4_K_S4.69GBfalseSlightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ4_NL.ggufIQ4_NL4.68GBfalseSimilar to IQ4_XS, but slightly larger. Offers online repacking for ARM CPU inference.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_0_8_8.ggufQ4_0_8_84.66GBfalseOptimized for ARM and AVX inference. Requires 'sve' support for ARM (see details below). Don't use on Mac.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_8.ggufQ4_0_4_84.66GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'i8mm' support (see details below). Don't use on Mac.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_4.ggufQ4_0_4_44.66GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Should work well on all ARM chips, not for use with GPUs. Don't use on Mac.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ4_XS.ggufIQ4_XS4.45GBfalseDecent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_L.ggufQ3_K_L4.32GBfalseLower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.ggufQ3_K_M4.02GBfalseLow quality.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ3_M.ggufIQ3_M3.78GBfalseMedium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q2_K_L.ggufQ2_K_L3.69GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q3_K_S.ggufQ3_K_S3.66GBfalseLow quality, not recommended.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ3_XS.ggufIQ3_XS3.52GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q2_K.ggufQ2_K3.18GBfalseVery low quality but surprisingly usable.
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-IQ2_M.ggufIQ2_M2.95GBfalseRelatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.

Credits

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output

Downloading using huggingface-cli

First, make sure you have hugginface-cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf/*" --local-dir Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q8_0

You can either specify a new local-dir (Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Q4_0_X_X information

These are NOT for Metal (Apple) or GPU (nvidia/AMD/intel) offloading, only ARM chips (and certain AVX2/AVX512 CPUs).

If you're using an ARM chip, the Q4_0_X_X quants will have a substantial speedup. Check out Q4_0_4_4 speed comparisons on the original pull request

To check which one would work best for your ARM chip, you can check AArch64 SoC features (thanks EloyOn!).

If you're using a CPU that supports AVX2 or AVX512 (typically server CPUs and AMD's latest Zen5 CPUs) and are not offloading to a GPU, the Q4_0_8_8 may offer a nice speed as well:

Click to view benchmarks on an AVX2 system (EPYC7702)
modelsizeparamsbackendthreadstestt/s% (vs Q4_0)
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512204.03 ± 1.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024282.92 ± 0.19100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048259.49 ± 0.44100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12839.12 ± 0.27100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25639.31 ± 0.69100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51240.52 ± 0.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512301.02 ± 1.74147%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024287.23 ± 0.20101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048262.77 ± 1.81101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12818.80 ± 0.9948%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25624.46 ± 3.0483%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51236.32 ± 3.5990%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512271.71 ± 3.53133%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024279.86 ± 45.63100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048320.77 ± 5.00124%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12843.51 ± 0.05111%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25643.35 ± 0.09110%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51242.60 ± 0.31105%

Q4_0_8_8 offers a nice bump to prompt processing and a small bump to text generation

Which file should I choose?

A great write up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

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