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Topic: "model-conversion"
The Dissection of Smaug (72B)
smaug-72b qwen-1.0 qwen-1.5 gpt-4 mistral-7b miqumaid wizardlm_evol_instruct_v2_196k openhermes-2.5 abacus-ai hugging-face nous-research laion thebloke lm-studio intel nvidia elevenlabs fine-tuning model-merging quantization web-ui model-conversion hardware-setup privacy image-generation optical-character-recognition prompt-engineering bindureddy
Abacus AI launched Smaug 72B, a large finetune of Qwen 1.0, which remains unchallenged on the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard despite skepticism from Nous Research. LAION introduced a local voice assistant model named Bud-E with a notable demo. The TheBloke Discord community discussed model performance trade-offs between large models like GPT-4 and smaller quantized models, fine-tuning techniques using datasets like WizardLM_evol_instruct_V2_196k and OpenHermes-2.5, and challenges in web UI development and model merging involving Mistral-7b and MiquMaid. The LM Studio Discord highlighted issues with model conversion from PyTorch to gguf, hardware setups involving Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia P40 GPUs, privacy concerns, and limitations in image generation and web UI availability.
12/26/2023: not much happened today
llava exllama2 meta-ai-fair google-deepmind gpu-offloading vram-utilization model-conversion moe-models multimodality model-performance hardware-configuration model-saving chatml installation-issues music-generation
LM Studio users extensively discussed its performance, installation issues on macOS, and upcoming features like Exllama2 support and multimodality with the Llava model. Conversations covered GPU offloading, vRAM utilization, MoE model expert selection, and model conversion compatibility. The community also addressed inefficient help requests referencing the blog 'Don't Ask to Ask, Just Ask'. Technical challenges with ChromaDB Plugin, server vs desktop hardware performance, and saving model states with Autogen were highlighted. Discussions included comparisons with other chatbots and mentions of AudioCraft from meta-ai-fair and MusicLM from google-deepmind for music generation.