# LLaMA ## Overview The LLaMA model was proposed in [LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13971) by Hugo Touvron, Thibaut Lavril, Gautier Izacard, Xavier Martinet, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Timothée Lacroix, Baptiste Rozière, Naman Goyal, Eric Hambro, Faisal Azhar, Aurelien Rodriguez, Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Guillaume Lample. It is a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. The abstract from the paper is the following: *We introduce LLaMA, a collection of foundation language models ranging from 7B to 65B parameters. We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets. In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla-70B and PaLM-540B. We release all our models to the research community. * Tips: - Weights for the LLaMA models can be obtained from by filling out [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfqNECQnMkycAp2jP4Z9TFX0cGR4uf7b_fBxjY_OjhJILlKGA/viewform?usp=send_form) - After downloading the weights, they will need to be converted to the Hugging Face Transformers format using the [conversion script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/models/llama/convert_llama_weights_to_hf.py). The script can be called with the following (example) command: ```bash python src/transformers/models/llama/convert_llama_weights_to_hf.py \ --input_dir /path/to/downloaded/llama/weights --model_size 7B --output_dir /output/path ``` - After conversion, the model and tokenizer can be loaded via: ```python from transformers import LlamaForCausalLM, LlamaTokenizer tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained("/output/path") model = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained("/output/path") ``` Note that executing the script requires enough CPU RAM to host the whole model in float16 precision (even if the biggest versions come in several checkpoints they each contain a part of each weight of the model, so we need to load them all in RAM). For the 65B model, it's thus 130GB of RAM needed. - The LLaMA tokenizer is a BPE model based on [sentencepiece](https://github.com/google/sentencepiece). One quirk of sentencepiece is that when decoding a sequence, if the first token is the start of the word (e.g. "Banana"), the tokenizer does not prepend the prefix space to the string. This model was contributed by [zphang](https://huggingface.co/zphang) with contributions from [BlackSamorez](https://huggingface.co/BlackSamorez). The code of the implementation in Hugging Face is based on GPT-NeoX [here](https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox). The original code of the authors can be found [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama). Based on the original LLaMA model, Meta AI has released some follow-up works: - **Llama2**: Llama2 is an improved version of Llama with some architectural tweaks (Grouped Query Attention), and is pre-trained on 2Trillion tokens. Refer to the documentation of Llama2 which can be found [here](llama2). ## LlamaConfig [[autodoc]] LlamaConfig ## LlamaTokenizer [[autodoc]] LlamaTokenizer - build_inputs_with_special_tokens - get_special_tokens_mask - create_token_type_ids_from_sequences - save_vocabulary ## LlamaTokenizerFast [[autodoc]] LlamaTokenizerFast - build_inputs_with_special_tokens - get_special_tokens_mask - create_token_type_ids_from_sequences - update_post_processor - save_vocabulary ## LlamaModel [[autodoc]] LlamaModel - forward ## LlamaForCausalLM [[autodoc]] LlamaForCausalLM - forward ## LlamaForSequenceClassification [[autodoc]] LlamaForSequenceClassification - forward