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# HuggingFaceH4's Starchat Beta GPTQ

These files are GPTQ 4bit model files for [HuggingFaceH4's Starchat Beta](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/starchat-beta).

It is the result of quantising to 4bit using [AutoGPTQ](https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ).

## Prompt template

```
<|system|> system message goes here <|end|>
<|user|> prompt goes here <|end|>
<|assistant|>
```

Example:

```
<|system|> Below is a conversation between a human user and a helpful AI coding assistant. <|end|>
<|user|> How do I sort a list in Python? <|end|>
<|assistant|>
```

## Repositories available

* [4-bit GPTQ models for GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/starchat-beta-GPTQ)
* [4, 5, and 8-bit GGML models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/starchat-beta-GGML)
* [Unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/starchat-beta)

## How to easily download and use this model in text-generation-webui

Please make sure you're using the latest version of text-generation-webui

1. Click the **Model tab**.
2. Under **Download custom model or LoRA**, enter `TheBloke/starchat-beta-GPTQ`.
3. Click **Download**.
4. The model will start downloading. Once it's finished it will say "Done"
5. In the top left, click the refresh icon next to **Model**.
6. In the **Model** dropdown, choose the model you just downloaded: `starchat-beta-GPTQ`
7. The model will automatically load, and is now ready for use!
8. If you want any custom settings, set them and then click **Save settings for this model** followed by **Reload the Model** in the top right.
  * Note that you do not need to set GPTQ parameters any more. These are set automatically from the file `quantize_config.json`.
9. Once you're ready, click the **Text Generation tab** and enter a prompt to get started!

## How to use this GPTQ model from Python code

First make sure you have [AutoGPTQ](https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ) installed:

`pip install auto-gptq`

Then try the following example code:

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, pipeline, logging
from auto_gptq import AutoGPTQForCausalLM, BaseQuantizeConfig
import argparse

model_name_or_path = "TheBloke/starchat-beta-GPTQ"
# Or to load it locally, pass the local download path
# model_name_or_path = "/path/to/models/The_Bloke_starchat-beta-GPTQ"

use_triton = False

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_path, use_fast=True)

model = AutoGPTQForCausalLM.from_quantized(model_name_or_path,
        use_safetensors=True,
        device="cuda:0",
        use_triton=use_triton,
        quantize_config=None)

# Prevent printing spurious transformers error when using pipeline with AutoGPTQ
logging.set_verbosity(logging.CRITICAL)

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)

prompt_template = "<|system|>\n<|end|>\n<|user|>\n{query}<|end|>\n<|assistant|>"
prompt = prompt_template.format(query="How do I sort a list in Python?")
# We use a special <|end|> token with ID 49155 to denote ends of a turn
outputs = pipe(prompt, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.2, top_k=50, top_p=0.95, eos_token_id=49155)
# You can sort a list in Python by using the sort() method. Here's an example:\n\n```\nnumbers = [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5]\nnumbers.sort()\nprint(numbers)\n```\n\nThis will sort the list in place and print the sorted list.
print(outputs[0]['generated_text'])
```

## Provided files

**gptq_model-4bit--1g.safetensors**

This will work with AutoGPTQ and CUDA versions of GPTQ-for-LLaMa. There are reports of issues with Triton mode of recent GPTQ-for-LLaMa. If you have issues, please use AutoGPTQ instead.

It was created without group_size to lower VRAM requirements, and with --act-order (desc_act) to boost inference accuracy as much as possible.

* `gptq_model-4bit--1g.safetensors`
  * Works with AutoGPTQ in CUDA or Triton modes.
  * Works with text-generation-webui, including one-click-installers.
  * Does not work with GPTQ-for-LLaMa.
  * Parameters: Groupsize = -1. Act Order / desc_act = True.

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## Thanks, and how to contribute.

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# Original model card: HuggingFaceH4's Starchat Beta

<img src="https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/starchat-beta/resolve/main/model_logo.png" alt="StarChat Beta Logo" width="800" style="margin-left:'auto' margin-right:'auto' display:'block'"/>

# Model Card for StarChat Beta

StarChat is a series of language models that are trained to act as helpful coding assistants. StarChat Beta is the second model in the series, and is a fine-tuned version of [StarCoderPlus](https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderplus) that was trained on an ["uncensored"](https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models) variant of the [`openassistant-guanaco` dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timdettmers/openassistant-guanaco). We found that removing the in-built alignment of the OpenAssistant dataset boosted performance on the [Open LLM Leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard) and made the model more helpful at coding tasks. However, this means that model is likely to generate problematic text when prompted to do so and should only be used for educational and research purposes.

## Model Details

### Model Description

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- **Model type:** A 16B parameter GPT-like model fine-tuned on an ["uncensored"](https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models) variant of the [`openassistant-guanaco` dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timdettmers/openassistant-guanaco).
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Primarily English and 80+ programming languages.
- **License:** BigCode Open RAIL-M v1
- **Finetuned from model:** [bigcode/starcoderplus](https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderplus)

### Model Sources [optional]

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- **Repository:** https://github.com/bigcode-project/starcoder
- **Demo:** https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/starchat-playground


## Intended uses & limitations

The model was fine-tuned on a variant of the [`OpenAssistant/oasst1`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1) dataset, which contains a diverse range of dialogues in over 35 languages. As a result, the model can be used for chat and you can check out our [demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/starchat-playground) to test its coding capabilities.

Here's how you can run the model using the `pipeline()` function from 🤗 Transformers:

```python
import torch
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="HuggingFaceH4/starchat-beta", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")

prompt_template = "<|system|>\n<|end|>\n<|user|>\n{query}<|end|>\n<|assistant|>"
prompt = prompt_template.format(query="How do I sort a list in Python?")
# We use a special <|end|> token with ID 49155 to denote ends of a turn
outputs = pipe(prompt, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=True, temperature=0.2, top_k=50, top_p=0.95, eos_token_id=49155)
# You can sort a list in Python by using the sort() method. Here's an example:\n\n```\nnumbers = [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5]\nnumbers.sort()\nprint(numbers)\n```\n\nThis will sort the list in place and print the sorted list.
```

## Bias, Risks, and Limitations

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StarChat Alpha has not been aligned to human preferences with techniques like RLHF or deployed with in-the-loop filtering of responses like ChatGPT, so the model can produce problematic outputs (especially when prompted to do so).
Models trained primarily on code data will also have a more skewed demographic bias commensurate with the demographics of the GitHub community, for more on this see the [StarCoder dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/starcoderdata) which is derived from The Stack.


Since the base model was pretrained on a large corpus of code, it may produce code snippets that are syntactically valid but semantically incorrect.
For example, it may produce code that does not compile or that produces incorrect results.
It may also produce code that is vulnerable to security exploits.
We have observed the model also has a tendency to produce false URLs which should be carefully inspected before clicking.

StarChat Alpha was fine-tuned from the base model [StarCoder Base](https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderbase), please refer to its model card's [Limitations Section](https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoderbase#limitations) for relevant information.
In particular, the model was evaluated on some categories of gender biases, propensity for toxicity, and risk of suggesting code completions with known security flaws; these evaluations are reported in its [technical report](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cN-b9GnWtHzQRoE7M7gAEyivY0kl4BYs/view).

## Training and evaluation data

StarChat Beta is trained on an ["uncensored"](https://erichartford.com/uncensored-models) variant of the [`openassistant-guanaco` dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/timdettmers/openassistant-guanaco). We applied the same [recipe](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/WizardLM_alpaca_evol_instruct_70k_unfiltered/blob/main/wizardlm_clean.py) used to filter the ShareGPT datasets behind the [WizardLM](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ehartford/WizardLM_alpaca_evol_instruct_70k_unfiltered).

## Training procedure

### Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 2e-05
- train_batch_size: 4
- eval_batch_size: 4
- seed: 42
- distributed_type: multi-GPU
- num_devices: 8
- gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
- total_train_batch_size: 256
- total_eval_batch_size: 32
- optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
- lr_scheduler_type: cosine
- lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.03
- num_epochs: 6

### Training results

| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss |
|:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|
| 1.5321        | 0.98  | 15   | 1.2856          |
| 1.2071        | 1.97  | 30   | 1.2620          |
| 1.0162        | 2.95  | 45   | 1.2853          |
| 0.8484        | 4.0   | 61   | 1.3274          |
| 0.6981        | 4.98  | 76   | 1.3994          |
| 0.5668        | 5.9   | 90   | 1.4720          |


### Framework versions

- Transformers 4.28.1
- Pytorch 2.0.1+cu118
- Datasets 2.12.0
- Tokenizers 0.13.3

## Citation

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**BibTeX:**

```
@article{Tunstall2023starchat-alpha,
  author = {Tunstall, Lewis and Lambert, Nathan and Rajani, Nazneen and Beeching, Edward and Le Scao, Teven and von Werra, Leandro and Han, Sheon and Schmid, Philipp and Rush, Alexander},
  title = {Creating a Coding Assistant with StarCoder},
  journal = {Hugging Face Blog},
  year = {2023},
  note = {https://huggingface.co/blog/starchat},
}
```