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LlamaIndex Llms Integration: Llama Cpp

Installation

To get the best performance out of LlamaCPP, it is recommended to install the package so that it is compiled with GPU support. A full guide for installing this way is here.

Full MACOS instructions are also here.

In general:

  • Use CuBLAS if you have CUDA and an NVidia GPU
  • Use METAL if you are running on an M1/M2 MacBook
  • Use CLBLAST if you are running on an AMD/Intel GPU

Them, install the required llama-index packages:

pip install llama-index-embeddings-huggingface
pip install llama-index-llms-llama-cpp

Basic Usage

Initialize LlamaCPP

Set up the model URL and initialize the LlamaCPP LLM:

from llama_index.llms.llama_cpp import LlamaCPP
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_url = "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-GGUF/resolve/main/qwen2.5-7b-instruct-q3_k_m.gguf"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct")


def messages_to_prompt(messages):
    messages = [{"role": m.role.value, "content": m.content} for m in messages]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
    )
    return prompt


def completion_to_prompt(completion):
    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": completion}]
    prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
        messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
    )
    return prompt


llm = LlamaCPP(
    # You can pass in the URL to a GGML model to download it automatically
    model_url=model_url,
    # optionally, you can set the path to a pre-downloaded model instead of model_url
    model_path=None,
    temperature=0.1,
    max_new_tokens=256,
    # llama2 has a context window of 4096 tokens, but we set it lower to allow for some wiggle room
    context_window=16384,
    # kwargs to pass to __call__()
    generate_kwargs={},
    # kwargs to pass to __init__()
    # set to at least 1 to use GPU
    model_kwargs={"n_gpu_layers": -1},
    # transform inputs into Llama2 format
    messages_to_prompt=messages_to_prompt,
    completion_to_prompt=completion_to_prompt,
    verbose=True,
)

Generate Completions

Use the complete method to generate a response:

response = llm.complete("Hello! Can you tell me a poem about cats and dogs?")
print(response.text)

Stream Completions

You can also stream completions for a prompt:

response_iter = llm.stream_complete("Can you write me a poem about fast cars?")
for response in response_iter:
    print(response.delta, end="", flush=True)

Set Up Query Engine with LlamaCPP

Change the global tokenizer to match the LLM:

from llama_index.core import set_global_tokenizer
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

set_global_tokenizer(
    AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct").encode
)

Use Hugging Face Embeddings

Set up the embedding model and load documents:

from llama_index.embeddings.huggingface import HuggingFaceEmbedding

embed_model = HuggingFaceEmbedding(model_name="BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5")
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader(
    "../../../examples/paul_graham_essay/data"
).load_data()

Create Vector Store Index

Create a vector store index from the loaded documents:

index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(documents, embed_model=embed_model)

Set Up Query Engine

Set up the query engine with the LlamaCPP LLM:

query_engine = index.as_query_engine(llm=llm)
response = query_engine.query("What did the author do growing up?")
print(response)

LLM Implementation example

https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/llm/llama_cpp/

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