| ## How to Prepare Vicuna Weight | |
| Vicuna is an open-source LLAMA-based LLM that has a performance close to ChatGPT. | |
| We currently use the v0 version of Vicuna-13B. | |
| To prepare Vicuna’s weight, first download Vicuna’s **delta** weight from [https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0](https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0). | |
| In case you have git-lfs installed (https://git-lfs.com), this can be done by | |
| ``` | |
| git lfs install | |
| git clone https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v0 # more powerful, need at least 24G gpu memory | |
| # or | |
| git clone https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-7b-delta-v0 # smaller, need 12G gpu memory | |
| ``` | |
| Note that this is not directly the working weight, but the difference between the working weight and the original weight of LLAMA-13B. (Due to LLAMA’s rules, we cannot distribute the weight of LLAMA.) | |
| Then, you need to obtain the original LLAMA-7B or LLAMA-13B weights in the HuggingFace format | |
| either following the instruction provided by HuggingFace | |
| [here](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/model_doc/llama) or from the Internet. | |
| When these two weights are ready, we can use tools from Vicuna’s team to create the real working weight. | |
| First, Install their library that is compatible with v0 Vicuna by | |
| ``` | |
| pip install git+https://github.com/lm-sys/[email protected] | |
| ``` | |
| Then, run the following command to create the final working weight | |
| ``` | |
| python -m fastchat.model.apply_delta --base /path/to/llama-13bOR7b-hf/ --target /path/to/save/working/vicuna/weight/ --delta /path/to/vicuna-13bOR7b-delta-v0/ | |
| ``` | |
| Now you are good to go! | |