When I look at the available options when serving a model via llama.cpp, I’m amazed. What options, possibly non-obvious options, do you like to use? Are you a mirostat person? dynatemp? KV Cache quantizer??
general:
-h, --help, --usage print usage and exit
--version show version and build info
-v, --verbose print verbose information
--verbosity N set specific verbosity level (default: 0)
--verbose-prompt print a verbose prompt before generation (default: false)
--no-display-prompt don't print prompt at generation (default: false)
-co, --color colorise output to distinguish prompt and user input from generations (default: false)
-s, --seed SEED RNG seed (default: -1, use random seed for < 0)
-t, --threads N number of threads to use during generation (default: 8)
-tb, --threads-batch N number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads)
-td, --threads-draft N number of threads to use during generation (default: same as --threads)
-tbd, --threads-batch-draft N number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing (default: same as --threads-draft)
--draft N number of tokens to draft for speculative decoding (default: 5)
-ps, --p-split N speculative decoding split probability (default: 0.1)
-lcs, --lookup-cache-static FNAME
path to static lookup cache to use for lookup decoding (not updated by generation)
-lcd, --lookup-cache-dynamic FNAME
path to dynamic lookup cache to use for lookup decoding (updated by generation)
-c, --ctx-size N size of the prompt context (default: 0, 0 = loaded from model)
-n, --predict N number of tokens to predict (default: -1, -1 = infinity, -2 = until context filled)
-b, --batch-size N logical maximum batch size (default: 2048)
-ub, --ubatch-size N physical maximum batch size (default: 512)
--keep N number of tokens to keep from the initial prompt (default: 0, -1 = all)
--chunks N max number of chunks to process (default: -1, -1 = all)
-fa, --flash-attn enable Flash Attention (default: disabled)
-p, --prompt PROMPT prompt to start generation with
in conversation mode, this will be used as system prompt
(default: '')
-f, --file FNAME a file containing the prompt (default: none)
--in-file FNAME an input file (repeat to specify multiple files)
-bf, --binary-file FNAME binary file containing the prompt (default: none)
-e, --escape process escapes sequences (\n, \r, \t, \', \", \\) (default: true)
--no-escape do not process escape sequences
-ptc, --print-token-count N print token count every N tokens (default: -1)
--prompt-cache FNAME file to cache prompt state for faster startup (default: none)
--prompt-cache-all if specified, saves user input and generations to cache as well
not supported with --interactive or other interactive options
--prompt-cache-ro if specified, uses the prompt cache but does not update it
-r, --reverse-prompt PROMPT halt generation at PROMPT, return control in interactive mode
can be specified more than once for multiple prompts
-sp, --special special tokens output enabled (default: false)
-cnv, --conversation run in conversation mode, does not print special tokens and suffix/prefix
if suffix/prefix are not specified, default chat template will be used
(default: false)
-i, --interactive run in interactive mode (default: false)
-if, --interactive-first run in interactive mode and wait for input right away (default: false)
-mli, --multiline-input allows you to write or paste multiple lines without ending each in '\'
--in-prefix-bos prefix BOS to user inputs, preceding the `--in-prefix` string
--in-prefix STRING string to prefix user inputs with (default: empty)
--in-suffix STRING string to suffix after user inputs with (default: empty)
--spm-infill use Suffix/Prefix/Middle pattern for infill (instead of Prefix/Suffix/Middle) as some models prefer this. (default: disabled)
sampling:
--samplers SAMPLERS samplers that will be used for generation in the order, separated by ';'
(default: top_k;tfs_z;typical_p;top_p;min_p;temperature)
--sampling-seq SEQUENCE simplified sequence for samplers that will be used (default: kfypmt)
--ignore-eos ignore end of stream token and continue generating (implies --logit-bias EOS-inf)
--penalize-nl penalize newline tokens (default: false)
--temp N temperature (default: 0.8)
--top-k N top-k sampling (default: 40, 0 = disabled)
--top-p N top-p sampling (default: 0.9, 1.0 = disabled)
--min-p N min-p sampling (default: 0.1, 0.0 = disabled)
--tfs N tail free sampling, parameter z (default: 1.0, 1.0 = disabled)
--typical N locally typical sampling, parameter p (default: 1.0, 1.0 = disabled)
--repeat-last-n N last n tokens to consider for penalize (default: 64, 0 = disabled, -1 = ctx_size)
--repeat-penalty N penalize repeat sequence of tokens (default: 1.0, 1.0 = disabled)
--presence-penalty N repeat alpha presence penalty (default: 0.0, 0.0 = disabled)
--frequency-penalty N repeat alpha frequency penalty (default: 0.0, 0.0 = disabled)
--dynatemp-range N dynamic temperature range (default: 0.0, 0.0 = disabled)
--dynatemp-exp N dynamic temperature exponent (default: 1.0)
--mirostat N use Mirostat sampling.
Top K, Nucleus, Tail Free and Locally Typical samplers are ignored if used.
(default: 0, 0 = disabled, 1 = Mirostat, 2 = Mirostat 2.0)
--mirostat-lr N Mirostat learning rate, parameter eta (default: 0.1)
--mirostat-ent N Mirostat target entropy, parameter tau (default: 5.0)
-l TOKEN_ID(+/-)BIAS modifies the likelihood of token appearing in the completion,
i.e. `--logit-bias 15043+1` to increase likelihood of token ' Hello',
or `--logit-bias 15043-1` to decrease likelihood of token ' Hello'
--cfg-negative-prompt PROMPT
negative prompt to use for guidance (default: '')
--cfg-negative-prompt-file FNAME
negative prompt file to use for guidance
--cfg-scale N strength of guidance (default: 1.0, 1.0 = disable)
--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE
set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
if suffix/prefix are specified, template will be disabled
only commonly used templates are accepted:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Templates-supported-by-llama_chat_apply_template
grammar:
--grammar GRAMMAR BNF-like grammar to constrain generations (see samples in grammars/ dir) (default: '')
--grammar-file FNAME file to read grammar from
-j, --json-schema SCHEMA JSON schema to constrain generations (https://json-schema.org/), e.g. `{}` for any JSON object
For schemas w/ external $refs, use --grammar + example/json_schema_to_grammar.py instead
embedding:
--pooling {none,mean,cls,last}
pooling type for embeddings, use model default if unspecified
--attention {causal,non-causal}
attention type for embeddings, use model default if unspecified
context hacking:
--rope-scaling {none,linear,yarn}
RoPE frequency scaling method, defaults to linear unless specified by the model
--rope-scale N RoPE context scaling factor, expands context by a factor of N
--rope-freq-base N RoPE base frequency, used by NTK-aware scaling (default: loaded from model)
--rope-freq-scale N RoPE frequency scaling factor, expands context by a factor of 1/N
--yarn-orig-ctx N YaRN: original context size of model (default: 0 = model training context size)
--yarn-ext-factor N YaRN: extrapolation mix factor (default: -1.0, 0.0 = full interpolation)
--yarn-attn-factor N YaRN: scale sqrt(t) or attention magnitude (default: 1.0)
--yarn-beta-slow N YaRN: high correction dim or alpha (default: 1.0)
--yarn-beta-fast N YaRN: low correction dim or beta (default: 32.0)
-gan, --grp-attn-n N group-attention factor (default: 1)
-gaw, --grp-attn-w N group-attention width (default: 512.0)
-dkvc, --dump-kv-cache verbose print of the KV cache
-nkvo, --no-kv-offload disable KV offload
-ctk, --cache-type-k TYPE KV cache data type for K (default: f16)
-ctv, --cache-type-v TYPE KV cache data type for V (default: f16)
perplexity:
--all-logits return logits for all tokens in the batch (default: false)
--hellaswag compute HellaSwag score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f
--hellaswag-tasks N number of tasks to use when computing the HellaSwag score (default: 400)
--winogrande compute Winogrande score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f
--winogrande-tasks N number of tasks to use when computing the Winogrande score (default: 0)
--multiple-choice compute multiple choice score over random tasks from datafile supplied with -f
--multiple-choice-tasks N
number of tasks to use when computing the multiple choice score (default: 0)
--kl-divergence computes KL-divergence to logits provided via --kl-divergence-base
--ppl-stride N stride for perplexity calculation (default: 0)
--ppl-output-type {0,1} output type for perplexity calculation (default: 0)
parallel:
-dt, --defrag-thold N KV cache defragmentation threshold (default: -1.0, < 0 - disabled)
-np, --parallel N number of parallel sequences to decode (default: 1)
-ns, --sequences N number of sequences to decode (default: 1)
-cb, --cont-batching enable continuous batching (a.k.a dynamic batching) (default: enabled)
multi-modality:
--mmproj FILE path to a multimodal projector file for LLaVA. see examples/llava/README.md
--image FILE path to an image file. use with multimodal models. Specify multiple times for batching
backend:
--rpc SERVERS comma separated list of RPC servers
--mlock force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing
--no-mmap do not memory-map model (slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)
--numa TYPE attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems
- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes
- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on
- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl
if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this
see https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1437
model:
--check-tensors check model tensor data for invalid values (default: false)
--override-kv KEY=TYPE:VALUE
advanced option to override model metadata by key. may be specified multiple times.
types: int, float, bool, str. example: --override-kv tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token=bool:false
--lora FNAME apply LoRA adapter (implies --no-mmap)
--lora-scaled FNAME S apply LoRA adapter with user defined scaling S (implies --no-mmap)
--lora-base FNAME optional model to use as a base for the layers modified by the LoRA adapter
--control-vector FNAME add a control vector
note: this argument can be repeated to add multiple control vectors
--control-vector-scaled FNAME SCALE
add a control vector with user defined scaling SCALE
note: this argument can be repeated to add multiple scaled control vectors
--control-vector-layer-range START END
layer range to apply the control vector(s) to, start and end inclusive
-m, --model FNAME model path (default: models/$filename with filename from --hf-file
or --model-url if set, otherwise models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf)
-md, --model-draft FNAME draft model for speculative decoding (default: unused)
-mu, --model-url MODEL_URL model download url (default: unused)
-hfr, --hf-repo REPO Hugging Face model repository (default: unused)
-hff, --hf-file FILE Hugging Face model file (default: unused)
-hft, --hf-token TOKEN Hugging Face access token (default: value from HF_TOKEN environment variable)
retrieval:
--context-file FNAME file to load context from (repeat to specify multiple files)
--chunk-size N minimum length of embedded text chunks (default: 64)
--chunk-separator STRING
separator between chunks (default: '
')
passkey:
--junk N number of times to repeat the junk text (default: 250)
--pos N position of the passkey in the junk text (default: -1)
imatrix:
-o, --output FNAME output file (default: 'imatrix.dat')
--output-frequency N output the imatrix every N iterations (default: 10)
--save-frequency N save an imatrix copy every N iterations (default: 0)
--process-output collect data for the output tensor (default: false)
--no-ppl do not compute perplexity (default: true)
--chunk N start processing the input from chunk N (default: 0)
bench:
-pps is the prompt shared across parallel sequences (default: false)
-npp n0,n1,... number of prompt tokens
-ntg n0,n1,... number of text generation tokens
-npl n0,n1,... number of parallel prompts
embedding:
--embd-normalize normalisation for embendings (default: 2) (-1=none, 0=max absolute int16, 1=taxicab, 2=euclidean, >2=p-norm)
--embd-output-format empty = default, "array" = [[],[]...], "json" = openai style, "json+" = same "json" + cosine similarity matrix
--embd-separator separator of embendings (default \n) for example "<#sep#>"
server:
--host HOST ip address to listen (default: 127.0.0.1)
--port PORT port to listen (default: 8080)
--path PATH path to serve static files from (default: )
--embedding(s) enable embedding endpoint (default: disabled)
--api-key KEY API key to use for authentication (default: none)
--api-key-file FNAME path to file containing API keys (default: none)
--ssl-key-file FNAME path to file a PEM-encoded SSL private key
--ssl-cert-file FNAME path to file a PEM-encoded SSL certificate
--timeout N server read/write timeout in seconds (default: 600)
--threads-http N number of threads used to process HTTP requests (default: -1)
--system-prompt-file FNAME
set a file to load a system prompt (initial prompt of all slots), this is useful for chat applications
--log-format {text,json}
log output format: json or text (default: json)
--metrics enable prometheus compatible metrics endpoint (default: disabled)
--no-slots disables slots monitoring endpoint (default: enabled)
--slot-save-path PATH path to save slot kv cache (default: disabled)
--chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE
set custom jinja chat template (default: template taken from model's metadata)
only commonly used templates are accepted:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/wiki/Templates-supported-by-llama_chat_apply_template
-sps, --slot-prompt-similarity SIMILARITY
how much the prompt of a request must match the prompt of a slot in order to use that slot (default: 0.50, 0.0 = disabled)
logging:
--simple-io use basic IO for better compatibility in subprocesses and limited consoles
-ld, --logdir LOGDIR path under which to save YAML logs (no logging if unset)
--log-test Run simple logging test
--log-disable Disable trace logs
--log-enable Enable trace logs
--log-file FNAME Specify a log filename (without extension)
--log-new Create a separate new log file on start. Each log file will have unique name: "<name>.<ID>.log"
--log-append Don't truncate the old log file.
cvector:
-o, --output FNAME output file (default: 'control_vector.gguf')
--positive-file FNAME positive prompts file, one prompt per line (default: 'examples/cvector-generator/positive.txt')
--negative-file FNAME negative prompts file, one prompt per line (default: 'examples/cvector-generator/negative.txt')
--pca-batch N batch size used for PCA. Larger batch runs faster, but uses more memory (default: 100)
--pca-iter N number of iterations used for PCA (default: 1000)
--method {pca,mean} dimensionality reduction method to be used (default: pca)
讨论总结
Reddit上的用户在讨论llama.cpp的众多选项，包括技术细节、个人偏好和使用经验。讨论中涉及了如何通过SillyTavern在运行时设置选项，以及如何根据Huggingface页面上的推荐设置来优化模型。此外，用户们也分享了他们的Shell脚本和优化配置，以提高模型的性能和输出质量。讨论中也不乏幽默和讽刺的评论，反映了用户对复杂技术选项的惊讶和困惑。
主要观点
- 👍 SillyTavern允许在运行时设置大部分选项
- 支持理由：用户可以在不重启服务器的情况下调整设置，提高了灵活性。
- 反对声音：一些用户可能对新的采样器和推荐设置感到困惑。
- 🔥 下载模型时应查看Huggingface页面上的推荐设置
- 正方观点：遵循官方推荐设置可以获得更好的模型性能。
- 反方观点：用户可能需要花费额外时间来研究和理解这些设置。
- 💡 使用Shell脚本自动化配置和启动服务器
- 解释：通过脚本可以简化复杂的命令行选项，提高效率。
金句与有趣评论
- “😂 TacticalRock：the one where i make caveman noises and use lm studio”
- 亮点：幽默地表达了使用lm studio的情景。
- “🤔 Scott_Tx：ummm, thanks for the help? /s”
- 亮点：讽刺地表达了对于过多技术信息的困惑。
- “👀 Shir_man：My sweet spots: -t 8 –color -i –temp 1 –top-k 40 –top-p 0.95 –min-p 0.10 –repeat_penalty 1.10 –repeat-last-n -1 –keep -1 -c 60000 -b 512 -np 4 -ns 4 -cb -n -2 -fa”
- 亮点：详细分享了优化配置，展示了技术深度。
情感分析
讨论的总体情感倾向是积极的，用户们积极分享他们的经验和偏好。然而，也有一些用户对复杂的技术选项感到困惑，并通过幽默和讽刺的方式表达出来。主要分歧点在于如何有效地使用和管理这些选项，以及如何根据个人需求进行优化。
趋势与预测
- 新兴话题：自动化配置和优化模型的脚本可能会引发更多讨论。
- 潜在影响：更高效的模型服务和优化可能会提升用户体验，吸引更多技术爱好者参与讨论。
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