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KoboldAI
KoboldAI-Client
Python2022–2023
KoboldAI / KoboldAI-Client

KoboldAI-Client

For GGUF support, see KoboldCPP: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

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For GGUF support, see KoboldCPP: https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

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Observed mentions: 2022-02-24 14:52:43 UTC to 2023-05-06 16:07:17 UTC.

01232022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20222022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2023

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I have been using similar models like LLM for helping draft fictional stories. The community fine tuned models are geared towards SFW and/or NSFW story competition. https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client To read more about current popular models. https://koboldai.net/ is a way to run some of these models in the "cloud". There's no account required and the prompts are run on other people's hardware, with priority weighting based on how much compute you have used or donated. There's an anonymous api key and there's no expectation that the output can't be logged. The models that run on hardware locally are very basic in the quality of output. Here's an example of a 6B output used to try to emulate chatgpt. https://mobile.twitter.com/Knaikk/status/1629711223863345154 The model was finetuned on story completion so it's not meaningfully c
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omparable. It's less popular because the hardware required for the great output is still above the top of line consumer specs. 24 gb vram is closer to a bare minimum to get meaningful output, and fine-tuning is still out of reach. There's some development with using services like runpod.
In Fork of Facebook’s LLaMa model to run on CPU
For LLMs, the closest thing that comes to mind is KoboldAI[1]. The community isn't as big as Stable Diffusion's, but the Discord server is pretty active. I'm an active member of the community who likes to inform others on it (you can see my previous Hacker News comment was about the same thing, haha). Like Stable Diffusion, it's a web UI (vaguely reminiscent of NovelAI's) that uses a backend (in this case, Huggingface Transformers). You can use different model architectures, as early as GPT-2 to the newer ones like BigScience's BLOOM, Meta's OPT, and EleutherAI's GPT-Neo and Pythia models, just as long as it was implemented in Huggingface. They have official support for Google Colab[2][3]; most of the models shown are finetunes on novels (Janeway), choose-your-own-adventures (Nerys / Skein / Adventure), or erotic literature (Erebus / Shin
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en). You can use the models listed or provide a Huggingface URL. [1] - https://github.com/koboldai/koboldai-client (source code) [2] - https://colab.research.google.com/github/koboldai/KoboldAI-C... (TPU colab; 13B and 20B models) [3] - https://colab.research.google.com/github/koboldai/KoboldAI-C... (GPU colab; 6B models and lower)
In Petals: Run 100B+ language models at home bit-torrent style
https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client The goal is different so it's not a direct alternative, but it's the closest that can be run on consumer hardware. In some ways models that run via Kobold are a lot more practically useful because they have a semblance of memory, but they don't have the breadth of knowledge that ChatGPT does. You can go back and edit a response and models will be able to help generate pages and pages of writing. It's also not limited to chat mode. I run it locally but I have heard a lot of success stories about running on Collab as well and there are GPU and TPU notebooks maintained in the repo. It can use a lor of different models like OPT, Fairseq Dense and even older models like GPT-J. There are fine tuned models for NSFW content as well, my understanding is that those models were motivated to move away from
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AI Dungeon that censored and read the text of user's stories. The models on hugging face come in all sizes, 8bg VRAM is enough for a 2.7B model, without taking a time penalty and splitting compute across GPU and RAM+CPU. There are options ranging from 350M [1] to a OPT 66B in the FB/Meta AI repo released on May 3rd [2], the 66B parameter one is openly available and the full 175B parameter model is available via request. GPT2 and GPT-Neo are supported too. I found 2.7B and 6.7B impressive personally. 66B Models would take over hundreds of gigabytes of vram to run at a similar speed to how ChatGPT works. I think that's part of the reason why it's not as popular, very few people can run even the smaller model at a reasonable speed. OPT is motivated by only training on open access material. The example bias demonstrated about the how the model complete "the man works as a" vs "the woman works as a". I thought having more modern works to train on would help avoid strong biases because culture has shifted toward being more moderate, but that doesn't seem to be case. "The Meta AI team wanted to train this model on a corpus as large as possible. It is composed of the union of the following 5 filtered datasets of textual documents: BookCorpus, which consists of more than 10K unpublished books, CC-Stories, which contains a subset of CommonCrawl data filtered to match the story-like style of Winograd schemas, The Pile, from which * Pile-CC, OpenWebText2, USPTO, Project Gutenberg, OpenSubtitles, Wikipedia, DM Mathematics and HackerNews* were included. Pushshift.io Reddit dataset that was developed in Baumgartner et al. (2020) and processed in Roller et al. (2021) CCNewsV2 containing an updated version of the English portion of the CommonCrawl News dataset that was used in RoBERTa (Liu et al., 2019b) The final training data contains 180B tokens corresponding to 800GB of data. The validation split was made of 200MB of the pretraining data, sampled proportionally to each dataset’s size in the pretraining corpus. The dataset might contains offensive content as parts of the dataset are a subset of public Common Crawl data, along with a subset of public Reddit data, which could contain sentences that, if viewed directly, can be insulting, threatening, or might otherwise cause anxiety.“ [1] https://huggingface.co/KoboldAI [2] https://huggingface.co/facebook/opt-66b https://ai.facebook.com/blog/democratizing-access-to-large-s...
In Ask HN: Self-hosted/open-source ChatGPT alternative? Like Stable Diffusion
I made an account to reply to this, since I tend to use KoboldAI[1][2] occasionally. It's an open-source text generation frontend that you can run on your own hardware (or cloud computing like Google Colab). It can be used with any Transformers-compatible text generation model[3] (OpenAI's original GPT-2, EleutherAI's GPT-Neo, Facebook's OPT, etc). It is debatable that OPT has hit that sweet spot in regards to "surpassing" GPT-3 in a smaller size. As far as I know, their biggest freely-downloadable model is 66B parameters (175B is available but requires request for access), but I had serviceable results in as little as 2.7B parameters, which can run on 16GB of RAM or 8GB of VRAM (via GPU). There's a prominent member in the KAI community that even finetunes them on novels and erotic literature (the latter of which makes for a decent AI "ch
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atting partner"). But you do bring up a great point: the field of OS text generation develops at a sluggish pace compared to Stable Diffusion. I assume people are more interested in generating their own images than they are text; that is just more impressive. [1] - https://github.com/koboldai/koboldai-client [2] - https://old.reddit.com/r/KoboldAI/ [3] - https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-generation
In OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue
I wonder how well social media or text message logs would work. I never journaled but I have decades worth of chat logs. I have conversations with people over with over 600k messages between us. I am not familiar with the OpenAI workflow, but KoboldAI is a community open source implementation to interface with different AI language models locally or online. There are links to premade notebooks of open sourced models you can run different on Google Collab. [1] I think finetuning models offline is still too expensive, but there is some progress and is possible via collab. KoboldAI has a chat mode setting where it properly generates and continues a conversation between two people. The models I ran were the smaller ones, but there's larger models available on huggingface like FB's OPT 30B. Even the smaller models I could fit into 8gb vram wer
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e coherent enough to be impressive. I am surprised I haven't seen more of is a chat bot based on writes who have passed away. I imagine an Aristotle chat bot would be pretty interesting and avoid issues of copyright. [1] https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client
In Artist feeds childhood diary into GPT-3 to have a chat with herself
biggest barrier to this is the hardware requirements. I saw an estimate on r/machinelearning that based on the parameter count, gpt-3 needs around 350GB of VRAM. maybe you could cut that in half, or even one-eighth if someone figures out some crazy quantization scheme, but it's still firmly outside of the realm of consumer hardware right now. stuff like koboldai can let you run smaller models on your hardware though (https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client).
In New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003

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