gallama 0.0.7

An opinionated Llama Server engine with a focus on agentic tasks

gallama - Guided Agentic Llama

gallama is an opinionated Python library that provides a LLM inference API service backend optimized for local agentic tasks.

It tries to close the gap between pure inference engine (such as ExLlamaV2 and Llama.cpp) and additional needs for agentic work (e.g., function calling, formatting constraints).

It provides some experimental features such as Artifact (like Claude's) and Thinking template (to guide chain of though).

As there is no standard approach for these experimental feature current, the library does implement it via some boilerplate code (you will find some fixed prompt inside the code) and thus is an opinionated API engine.

This library is marked with rolling update so please be patient hi-cup and bugs :) (feel free to open an issue if you come across any).

Currently, the backend is mainly using ExllamaV2. Llama.cpp support is under experiment.

Do checkout TabbyAPI if you want a reliable and pure ExllamaV2 API backend.

Quick Start

Head down to the installation guide at the bottom of this page. Then check out the Examples_Notebook.ipynb in the examples folder A simple python streamlit frontend chat UI code is included in the examples folder streamlit Or checkout GallamaUI

Features

Integrated Model downloader

Ability to download exl2 model from Hugging Face via CLI for popular models.

Example as following to download llama-3.1 8B at 4.0bpw (4 bit per weight quantization)

gallama download qwen-2.5-32B:4.0

By default, it will download exllama version. For model with gguf available, you can download it by set the backend

gallama download qwen-2.5-32B:4.0 --backend=llama_cpp

After download, you can run the model with:

gallama run qwen-2.5-32B

Here is the list of currently supported models for downloader:

You can view it in CLI using following command:

gallama list available

LLM Models

Model	Backend	Available Quantizations (bpw)
llama-3.1-8B	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
	llama_cpp	2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
llama-3.1-70B	exllama	2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0
	llama_cpp	3.0, 4.0, 5.0
mistral	exllama	2.8, 3.0, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0
	llama_cpp	2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
mistral-large	exllama	2.3, 2.5, 2.75, 3.0, 3.5, 3.75, 4.0, 4.25, 4.5, 4.75, 5.0, 6.0
mistral-nemo	exllama	2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
	llama_cpp	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
codestral	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 4.25, 5.0, 6.5, 8.0
	llama_cpp	2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
gemma-2-9B	exllama	2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 8.0
gemma-2-27B	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2-1.5B	exllama	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
	llama_cpp	4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2-7B	exllama	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2-72B	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.25, 4.65, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
	llama_cpp	2.0, 3.0, 4.0
yi-1.5-34B	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 3.75, 4.0, 4.25, 5.0, 6.0, 6.5, 8.0
qwen-2.5-72B	exllama	2.2, 3.0, 3.5, 4.25, 4.65, 5.0, 6.5, 8.0
	llama_cpp	2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2.5-32B	exllama	3.0, 4.0, 4.65, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
	llama_cpp	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2.5-14B	exllama	3.0, 3.5, 4.25, 5.0, 6.5, 8.0
	llama_cpp	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2.5-7B	exllama	3.5, 4.25, 5.0, 6.5, 8.0
	llama_cpp	3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0
qwen-2-VL-2B	transformers	4.0, 16.0
qwen-2-VL-7B	transformers	4.0, 16.0
qwen-2-VL-72B	transformers	4.0, 16.0

Embedding Models:

Model	Backend	Available Quantizations (bpw)
multilingual-e5-large-instruct	embedding	16.0
gte-large-en-v1.5	embedding	16.0

The syntax to specify the model is model name follow by : then follow by quantization float number e.g. qwen-2-72B:4.0

For model not listed here, you can refer to examples/Model_Downloader.ipynb for code to download from huggingface. And then you will need to manually update the config in ~/gallama/model_config.yaml. Instruction will be updated

Sometime, the download speed might get slowed down. Just cancel the download by Ctrl+C and run the same download command again. The download will resume with higher speed.

OpenAI Compatible Server

Fully compatible with the OpenAI client.

Install openai client and overwrite its base setting as follow:

pip install openai

import os
from openai import OpenAI

os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = 'test'
client = OpenAI(base_url='http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1')

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Which is faster in terms of reaction speed: a cat or a dog?"}]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    messages=messages,
    tool_choice="auto"
)

print(completion)

Function Calling

Supports function calling for all models, mimicking OpenAI's behavior for tool_choice="auto" where if tool usage is not applicable, model will generate normal response.

tools = [
    {
        "type": "function",
        "function": {
            "name": "get_current_weather",
            "description": "Get the current weather in a given location",
            "parameters": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "location": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
                    },
                    "unit": {"type": "string", "enum": ["celsius", "fahrenheit"]},
                },
                "required": ["location"],
            },
        }
    }
]

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like in Boston today?"}]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    messages=messages,
    tools=tools,
    tool_choice="auto"
)

print(completion.choices[0].message.tool_calls[0].function)

Artifact System (Experimental)

The engine support artifact mode (similar to Claude's Artifact). While Claude probably train their model with custom dataset, we neither have this with open source nor I think there will be a standard for it (much like every new model use a different special tokens :D)

Current the library implement it via a combination of prompting, XML tag and format enforcement.

To be able to use Artifact mode effectively, you will need a good enough model, from our testing you will need minimally codestral 22B. 70B+ models such as Qwen2 or Llama 3.1 will give the best result.

As Artifact feature is most useful for interaction instead of via API, we do have a lightweight WebUI here which work with our Artifact System.

If using python, you can interact with the UI as following.

Non-Streaming

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="codestral",
    messages=[{"role": "user",
               "content": "Explain in one liner what quicksort is and write me quicksort in python and Java"}],
    extra_body={
        "artifact": "Fast",
    }
)

for choice in completion.choices:
    print("-------------------------------\n")
    print(choice.message.artifact_meta)
    print(choice.message.content)

Streaming

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="codestral",
    messages=[{"role": "user",
               "content": "Explain in one liner what quicksort is and write me quicksort in python and Java"}],
  stream=True,
  extra_body= {
      "artifact": "Fast",
  }
)

current_content_type = None
for chunk in completion:
  if current_content_type != chunk.choices[0].delta.artifact_meta["tag_type"]:
      print("\n------------------------------")
      print(chunk.choices[0].delta.artifact_meta)
      print("\n------------------------------")
      current_content_type = chunk.choices[0].delta.artifact_meta["tag_type"]
  print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end='')

Thinking Method

A novel approach to guide LLM's thinking with XML templates (e.g., chain of thought) without modifying the prompt. The benefit of this versus traditional CoT prompting is you can customize the XML template to be used depending on model and situation without the need to fix change the prompt, As following example, you can influence the model to provide the answer with CoT while not showing the CoT in the answer.

thinking_template = """
<chain_of_thought>
  <problem>{problem_statement}</problem>
  <initial_state>{initial_state}</initial_state>
  <steps>
    <step>{action1}</step>
    <step>{action2}</step>
    <!-- Add more steps as needed -->
  </steps>
  <answer>Provide the answer</answer>
  <final_answer>Only the final answer, no need to provide the step by step problem solving</final_answer>
</chain_of_thought>
"""

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "I went to the market and bought 10 apples. I gave 2 apples to the neighbor and 2 to the repairman. I then went and bought 5 more apples and ate 1. How many apples did I remain with?"}
]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    messages=messages,
    temperature=0.1,
    max_tokens=200,
    extra_body={
        "thinking_template": thinking_template,
    },
)

print(completion.choices[0].message.content)
# 10 apples

Multiple Concurrent Models

Run multiple models (different or same) with automatic load balancing and request routing. Model VRAM usage can be auto_loaded or with specific GPUs spliting. Each model will be run as a dedicated FastAPI to ensure no threading issue and guarantee speed. However, do note that this will be more demanding on the system as there will be multiple FastAPI running

Basic

gallama run -id "model_id=llama-3.1-8B" -id "model_id=mistral"

Customize GPUs split

gallama run -id "model_id=qwen2-72B gpus=20,15,15,0" -id "model_id=Llama3.1-8B gpus=0,0,0,20"

Mixture of Experts

Query and combine response from multiple model via OpenAI client

OpenAI Embedding Endpoint

Utilize Infinity Embedding library for both embedding via OpenAI client.

response = client.embeddings.create(
    input="Your text string for embedding goes here",
    model="Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5"
)

print(response.data[0].embedding)

Legacy OpenAI Completion Endpoint

Support for the Legacy Completion Endpoint.

client.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    prompt="Tell me a story about a Llama in 200 words",
    max_tokens=1000,
    temperature=0
)

Format Enforcement

Ensure output conforms to specified patterns with a following options that can be specified in the extra_body when using OpenAI client.

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Is smoking bad for health? Answer with Yes or No"}],
    temperature=0.1,
    max_tokens=200,
    extra_body={
        # "leading_prompt": leading_prompt,         # prefix the generation with some string
        # "regex_pattern": regex_pattern,           # define the regex for the whole generation
        # "regex_prefix_pattern": '(Yes|No)\.',     # define the regex to match the starting words
        # "stop_words": stop_words,                 # define the word to stop generation
    },
)

Streaming

Streaming is fully supported even in artifact mode.

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "Tell me a 200-word story about a Llama"}]

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="mistral",
    messages=messages,
    stream=True,
    temperature=0.1,
)

for chunk in completion:
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content, end='')

Remote Model Management

Load and unload models via API calls.

start gallama server if it is not current running:

gallama run

import requests

api_url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/add_model"

payload = [
    {
        "model_id": "qwen-2-72B",
        "gpus": [22,22,4,0],
        "cache_size": 32768,
    },
    {
        "model_id": "gemma-2-9b",
        "gpus": [0,0,0,12],
        "cache_size": 32768,
    },
    {
        "model_id": "multilingual-e5-large-instruct",
        "gpus": [0,0,0,5],
    },
]

response = requests.post(api_url, json=payload)

Installation

gallama requires certain components to be installed and functioning.

Ensure that you have either ExllamaV2 (recommended) or Llama CPP Python (in development) installed. You can have both installed and use both with gallama as well, If you already have either ExLlamaV2 (and optionally Flash Attention) running, you can install gallama by:

pip install gallama

Or, install from source:

git clone https://github.com/remichu-ai/gallama.git
cd gallama
pip install .

If you're starting from scratch and don't have these dependencies yet, follow these steps:

1. Create a virtual environment (recommended): Recommend to use python 3.12 if you can or minimally 3.11 for future tensor parallel compatibility.

   conda create --name genv python=3.12
   conda activate genv
   

2. Install and verify ExLlamaV2 (Recommended):

   • Follow instructions at ExLlamaV2 GitHub
   • Test with examples from ExLlamaV2 Examples

   (Optional) Install llama cpp-python:

   • Follow instructions at llama-cpp-python
   • Test with examples from llama-cpp-python Examples

3. (Optional) Install Flash Attention for improved performance:

   • Follow instructions at Flash Attention GitHub

4. (Optional) Install Llama.cpp:

   • Follow instructions at Llama-cpp-python
   • Note: ExLlamaV2 is currently recommended. Llama.cpp support is under development.

5. Install gallama:

   pip install gallama
   

   Or, install from source:

   git clone https://github.com/remichu-ai/gallama.git
   cd gallama
   pip install .
   

Usage

Follow these steps to use the model. We aim to make this process more convenient in future releases.

Setup

1. Download the ExLlama model. A Jupyter notebook to assist with the download is included in examples/Model_download.ipynb.

2. Initialize gallama:

   gallama run
   

   This creates a model_config.yaml file in ~/gallama.

3. Update ~/gallama/model_config.yaml with your model configurations.

4. Launch the model: Simple method

   gallama run mistral
   

   Advanced method

   gallama run -id "model_id=mistral"
   

Advanced Usage

Using gallama run -id followed by a string which is a dictionary of key-value pair will unlock additional option as following:

Customize the model launch using various parameters. Available parameters for the -id option include:

• model_id: ID of the model from the yml file (required)
• model_name: Name of the model (optional, defaults to the last part of model_id)
• gpus: VRAM usage for each GPU, comma-separated list of floats (optional)
• cache_size: Context length for cache text in integers (optional)
• cache_quant: Quantization to use for cache, options are "FP16", "Q4", "Q6", "Q8" (optional, defaults to Q4)
• max_seq_len: Maximum sequence length (optional)
• backend: Model engine backend, options are "exLlama", "Llama_cpp", "embedding" (optional, defaults to "exLlama")
• tp: enable tensor parallel with exllama v2 (experimental). See further below

Speculative Decoding Parameters

• draft_model_id: ID of the draft model (optional)
• draft_model_name: Name of the draft model (optional)
• draft_gpus: VRAM usage for each GPU for the draft model, comma-separated list of floats (optional)
• draft_cache_size: Context length for cache text in integers for the draft model (optional)
• draft_cache_quant: Quantization to use for cache for the draft model, options are "FP16", "Q4", "Q6", "Q8" (optional)

Examples

1. Launch two models simultaneously:

   gallama run -id "model_id=mistral" -id "model_id=llama3"
   

2. Launch a model with specific VRAM limits per GPU:

   gallama run -id "model_id=qwen2-72B gpus=22,22,10,0"
   

   This limits memory usage to 22GB for GPU0 and GPU1, 10GB for GPU2, and 0GB for GPU3.

3. Launch a model with custom cache size and quantization: By default cache_size is initialized to max sequence length of the model. However, if there is VRAM to spare, increase cache_size will have model to perform better for concurrent and batched request. By default, cache_quant=Q4 will be used. However, do adjust it if required e.g. Qwen2 1.5B doesn't work well with Q4 cache, please use Q6 or Q8.

   gallama run -id "model_id=mistral cache_size=102400 cache_quant=Q8"
   

4. Launch a model with reduced cache size and quantization: For model with high context, lower the sequence length can significantly reduce VRAM usage. e.g. Mistral Large 2 can handle 128K content, however, it will require significant VRAM for the cache

   gallama run -id "model_id=mistral_large max_seq_len=32768"
   

5. Launch a model for embedding:

   gallama run -id "model_id=Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5 backend=embedding"
   

6. Launch a model with speculative decoding: Only model with same vocabulary should be used for speculative decoding. For reference, by enabling speculative decoding, qwen2-72B generation speed improve from 20tok/s to 25-35tok/s on my 4090s. Highly recommend speculative decoding if you have VRAM to spare.

   gallama run -id "model_id=qwen2-72B draft_model_id=qwen2-1.5B"
   

   Ensure your GPU settings can accommodate the model requirements. Trial and adjust parameters as needed for your specific use case. Note: The backend is assumed to be the same for both the main model and the draft model in speculative decoding.

7. Tensor Parallel (TP) Exllama V2 Tensor Parallel support Tensor Parallel from v0.1.9.

   • Update your python>=3.11
   • Install ExllamaV2>=0.1.9
   • Only support Qwen2-72B, Llama3.1-70B and Mistral Large at the moment
   • Do run a draft model to help further with speed (Qwen2-1.5B, Llama3.1-8B, Mistral v0.3 respectively) To enable tensor parallel, simply add tp=True Exllama tensor parallel support parallelism on odd number of GPUs. Also exact matching of GPU is not requirement The speed boost for TP is huge (close to X1.5-X2).

   gallama run -id "model_id=qwen-2-72B draft_model_id=qwen-2-1.5B tp=True"
   

8. Others If you keep gallama config folder in another location instead of ~home/gallama then you can set env parameter GALLAMA_HOME_PATH when running.

NEW - Vision Model

From gallama version 0.0.7, there is experimental support for Vision model. Currently only Qwen 2 VL series of model is supported. Currently, both exllamaV2 and llama.cpp do not support Vision model yet. Hence, this is achieved by running transformers with the use of awq for quantization.

As of this release, the transformers build in pip is not yet updated with bugfix for Qwen 2 VL, hence you will need to install the latest code from github. This is already be handled in the requirements.txt.

After installation you can download by following commands (choose a version that fit your VRAM):

# 2B model
gallama download qwen-2-VL-2B:4.0 --backend=transformers
gallama run qwen-2-VL-2B_transformers

# 7B model
gallama download qwen-2-VL-7B:4.0 --backend=transformers
gallama run qwen-2-VL-7B_transformers

# 72B model
gallama download qwen-2-VL-72B:4.0 --backend=transformers
gallama run qwen-2-VL-72B_transformers

If you need an UI to run it, check out Gallama UI: