---
base_model: Open-Orca/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B
datasets:
- Open-Orca/SlimOrca
inference: false
license: apache-2.0
model_creator: OpenOrca
model_name: Mixtral SlimOrca 8X7B
model_type: mixtral
pipeline_tag: text-generation
prompt_template: '<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
'
quantized_by: TheBloke
---
# Mixtral SlimOrca 8X7B - GGUF
- Model creator: [OpenOrca](https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca)
- Original model: [Mixtral SlimOrca 8X7B](https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B)
## Description
This repo contains GGUF format model files for [OpenOrca's Mixtral SlimOrca 8X7B](https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B).
### About GGUF
GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp.
### Mixtral GGUF
Support for Mixtral was merged into Llama.cpp on December 13th.
These Mixtral GGUFs are known to work in:
* llama.cpp as of December 13th
* KoboldCpp 1.52 as later
* LM Studio 0.2.9 and later
* llama-cpp-python 0.2.23 and later
Other clients/libraries, not listed above, may not yet work.
## Repositories available
* [GPTQ models for GPU inference, with multiple quantisation parameter options.](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GPTQ)
* [2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8-bit GGUF models for CPU+GPU inference](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF)
* [OpenOrca's original unquantised fp16 model in pytorch format, for GPU inference and for further conversions](https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B)
## Prompt template: ChatML
```
<|im_start|>system
{system_message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```
## Compatibility
These Mixtral GGUFs are compatible with llama.cpp from December 13th onwards. Other clients/libraries may not work yet.
## Explanation of quantisation methods
Click to see details
The new methods available are:
* GGML_TYPE_Q2_K - "type-1" 2-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weight. Block scales and mins are quantized with 4 bits. This ends up effectively using 2.5625 bits per weight (bpw)
* GGML_TYPE_Q3_K - "type-0" 3-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 6 bits. This end up using 3.4375 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q4_K - "type-1" 4-bit quantization in super-blocks containing 8 blocks, each block having 32 weights. Scales and mins are quantized with 6 bits. This ends up using 4.5 bpw.
* GGML_TYPE_Q5_K - "type-1" 5-bit quantization. Same super-block structure as GGML_TYPE_Q4_K resulting in 5.5 bpw
* GGML_TYPE_Q6_K - "type-0" 6-bit quantization. Super-blocks with 16 blocks, each block having 16 weights. Scales are quantized with 8 bits. This ends up using 6.5625 bpw
Refer to the Provided Files table below to see what files use which methods, and how.
## Provided files
| Name | Quant method | Bits | Size | Max RAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q2_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q2_K.gguf) | Q2_K | 2 | 15.64 GB| 18.14 GB | smallest, significant quality loss - not recommended for most purposes |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q3_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 3 | 20.36 GB| 22.86 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_0.gguf) | Q4_0 | 4 | 26.44 GB| 28.94 GB | legacy; small, very high quality loss - prefer using Q3_K_M |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 4 | 26.44 GB| 28.94 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q5_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q5_0.gguf) | Q5_0 | 5 | 32.23 GB| 34.73 GB | legacy; medium, balanced quality - prefer using Q4_K_M |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 5 | 32.23 GB| 34.73 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q6_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q6_K.gguf) | Q6_K | 6 | 38.38 GB| 40.88 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| [mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF/blob/main/mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 8 | 49.62 GB| 52.12 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended |
**Note**: the above RAM figures assume no GPU offloading. If layers are offloaded to the GPU, this will reduce RAM usage and use VRAM instead.
## How to download GGUF files
**Note for manual downloaders:** You almost never want to clone the entire repo! Multiple different quantisation formats are provided, and most users only want to pick and download a single file.
The following clients/libraries will automatically download models for you, providing a list of available models to choose from:
* LM Studio
* LoLLMS Web UI
* Faraday.dev
### In `text-generation-webui`
Under Download Model, you can enter the model repo: TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF and below it, a specific filename to download, such as: mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf.
Then click Download.
### On the command line, including multiple files at once
I recommend using the `huggingface-hub` Python library:
```shell
pip3 install huggingface-hub
```
Then you can download any individual model file to the current directory, at high speed, with a command like this:
```shell
huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```
More advanced huggingface-cli download usage (click to read)
You can also download multiple files at once with a pattern:
```shell
huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False --include='*Q4_K*gguf'
```
For more documentation on downloading with `huggingface-cli`, please see: [HF -> Hub Python Library -> Download files -> Download from the CLI](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/download#download-from-the-cli).
To accelerate downloads on fast connections (1Gbit/s or higher), install `hf_transfer`:
```shell
pip3 install hf_transfer
```
And set environment variable `HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER` to `1`:
```shell
HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 huggingface-cli download TheBloke/Mixtral-SlimOrca-8x7B-GGUF mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir . --local-dir-use-symlinks False
```
Windows Command Line users: You can set the environment variable by running `set HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1` before the download command.
## Example `llama.cpp` command
Make sure you are using `llama.cpp` from commit [d0cee0d](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/commit/d0cee0d36d5be95a0d9088b674dbb27354107221) or later.
```shell
./main -ngl 35 -m mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "<|im_start|>system\n{system_message}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n{prompt}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant"
```
Change `-ngl 32` to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Remove it if you don't have GPU acceleration.
Change `-c 2048` to the desired sequence length. For extended sequence models - eg 8K, 16K, 32K - the necessary RoPE scaling parameters are read from the GGUF file and set by llama.cpp automatically. Note that longer sequence lengths require much more resources, so you may need to reduce this value.
If you want to have a chat-style conversation, replace the `-p ` argument with `-i -ins`
For other parameters and how to use them, please refer to [the llama.cpp documentation](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/main/README.md)
## How to run in `text-generation-webui`
Note that text-generation-webui may not yet be compatible with Mixtral GGUFs. Please check compatibility first.
Further instructions can be found in the text-generation-webui documentation, here: [text-generation-webui/docs/04 ‐ Model Tab.md](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/04%20%E2%80%90%20Model%20Tab.md#llamacpp).
## How to run from Python code
You can use GGUF models from Python using the [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python) version 0.2.23 and later.
### How to load this model in Python code, using llama-cpp-python
For full documentation, please see: [llama-cpp-python docs](https://abetlen.github.io/llama-cpp-python/).
#### First install the package
Run one of the following commands, according to your system:
```shell
# Base ctransformers with no GPU acceleration
pip install llama-cpp-python
# With NVidia CUDA acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CUBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with OpenBLAS acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with CLBLast acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CLBLAST=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with AMD ROCm GPU acceleration (Linux only)
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_HIPBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems only
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_METAL=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# In windows, to set the variables CMAKE_ARGS in PowerShell, follow this format; eg for NVidia CUDA:
$env:CMAKE_ARGS = "-DLLAMA_OPENBLAS=on"
pip install llama-cpp-python
```
#### Simple llama-cpp-python example code
```python
from llama_cpp import Llama
# Set gpu_layers to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Set to 0 if no GPU acceleration is available on your system.
llm = Llama(
model_path="./mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf", # Download the model file first
n_ctx=2048, # The max sequence length to use - note that longer sequence lengths require much more resources
n_threads=8, # The number of CPU threads to use, tailor to your system and the resulting performance
n_gpu_layers=35 # The number of layers to offload to GPU, if you have GPU acceleration available
)
# Simple inference example
output = llm(
"<|im_start|>system\n{system_message}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>user\n{prompt}<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant", # Prompt
max_tokens=512, # Generate up to 512 tokens
stop=[""], # Example stop token - not necessarily correct for this specific model! Please check before using.
echo=True # Whether to echo the prompt
)
# Chat Completion API
llm = Llama(model_path="./mixtral-slimorca-8x7b.Q4_K_M.gguf", chat_format="llama-2") # Set chat_format according to the model you are using
llm.create_chat_completion(
messages = [
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a story writing assistant."},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a story about llamas."
}
]
)
```
## How to use with LangChain
Here are guides on using llama-cpp-python and ctransformers with LangChain:
* [LangChain + llama-cpp-python](https://python.langchain.com/docs/integrations/llms/llamacpp)
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# Original model card: OpenOrca's Mixtral SlimOrca 8X7B
# SlimOrca Mixtral 8x7B
[](https://github.com/OpenAccess-AI-Collective/axolotl)
![OpenOrca Logo](https://huggingface.co/openaccess-ai-collective/slimorca-mixstral-8x7b/resolve/main/assets/mixtral-slimorca.png "MixtralSlimOrca Logo")
Official release of the SlimOrca Mixtral finetune. More details to come.
## Model Details
### Model Description
- **Developed by:** OpenAccess AI Collective and OpenOrca
- **Finetuned from model [optional]:** mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1