Llama serve

[!WARNING] This package is now deprecated. Use londonaicentre-mesa-local rather than londonaicentre-llama-serve for pip commands.

Serve llama models locally.

• ⬇️ Downloads weights from S3

• 📦 Unpacks

• 🚀 Serves via a local OpenAI-compatible server

Prerequisites

Software

• Python 3.12

Hardware

• A GPU with >=24GB VRAM (tested on NVIDIA A30)

Configuration

• Create a file called .env in the directory where you intend to run this package. Populate it with the details you have been provided with in the following format:

MODEL_NAME=
WEIGHTS_ID=
WEIGHTS_KEY=

Installation

1. (Recommended) Create a virtual environment and activate it:

   python -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate
   

2. Install this package: pip install londonaicentre-llama-serve.

Usage

CLI

1. Note command line arguments:

   Argument	Description
   -v, --verbose	Enable debug output (optional)

2. Start the server as follows: llamaserve [args].

Clients

OpenAI (example)

1. Interact with the server using the OpenAI client in python:

   from openai import OpenAI
   
   client = OpenAI(
       base_url="http://localhost:5000/v1",
       api_key="blank" 
   )
   
   response = client.chat.completions.create(
       model="<MODEL_NAME>",
       messages=[
           {"role": "system", "content": "You are an LLM named gpt-4o"},
           {"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}
       ]
   )
   
   print(response.choices[0].message.content)
   

License

This project uses a proprietary license (see LICENSE).