This guide walks through importing a GGUF, PyTorch or Safetensors model.
Start by creating a Modelfile
. This file is the blueprint for your model, specifying weights, parameters, prompt templates and more.
FROM ./mistral-7b-v0.1.Q4_0.gguf
(Optional) many chat models require a prompt template in order to answer correctly. A default prompt template can be specified with the TEMPLATE
instruction in the Modelfile
:
FROM ./q4_0.bin
TEMPLATE "[INST] {{ .Prompt }} [/INST]"
Finally, create a model from your Modelfile
:
ollama create example -f Modelfile
Next, test the model with ollama run
:
ollama run example "What is your favourite condiment?"
Ollama supports a set of model architectures, with support for more coming soon:
- Llama & Mistral
- Falcon & RW
- BigCode
To view a model's architecture, check the config.json
file in its HuggingFace repo. You should see an entry under architectures
(e.g. LlamaForCausalLM
).
If the model is currently hosted in a HuggingFace repository, first clone that repository to download the raw model.
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1
cd Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1
If the model is in PyTorch or Safetensors format, a Docker image with the tooling required to convert and quantize models is available.
First, Install Docker.
Next, to convert and quantize your model, run:
docker run --rm -v .:/model ollama/quantize -q q4_0 /model
This will output two files into the directory:
f16.bin
: the model converted to GGUFq4_0.bin
the model quantized to a 4-bit quantization (we will use this file to create the Ollama model)
Next, create a Modelfile
for your model:
FROM ./q4_0.bin
(Optional) many chat models require a prompt template in order to answer correctly. A default prompt template can be specified with the TEMPLATE
instruction in the Modelfile
:
FROM ./q4_0.bin
TEMPLATE "[INST] {{ .Prompt }} [/INST]"
Finally, create a model from your Modelfile
:
ollama create example -f Modelfile
Next, test the model with ollama run
:
ollama run example "What is your favourite condiment?"
Publishing models is in early alpha. If you'd like to publish your model to share with others, follow these steps:
- Create an account
- Run
cat ~/.ollama/id_ed25519.pub
to view your Ollama public key. Copy this to the clipboard. - Add your public key to your Ollama account
Next, copy your model to your username's namespace:
ollama cp example <your username>/example
Then push the model:
ollama push <your username>/example
After publishing, your model will be available at https://ollama.ai/<your username>/example
.
The quantization options are as follow (from highest highest to lowest levels of quantization). Note: some architectures such as Falcon do not support K quants.
q2_K
q3_K
q3_K_S
q3_K_M
q3_K_L
q4_0
(recommended)q4_1
q4_K
q4_K_S
q4_K_M
q5_0
q5_1
q5_K
q5_K_S
q5_K_M
q6_K
q8_0
Start by cloning the llama.cpp
repo to your machine in another directory:
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git
cd llama.cpp
Next, install the Python dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Finally, build the quantize
tool:
make quantize
Run the correct conversion script for your model architecture:
# LlamaForCausalLM or MistralForCausalLM
python convert.py <path to model directory>
# FalconForCausalLM
python convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py <path to model directory>
# GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
python convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py <path to model directory>
quantize <path to model dir>/ggml-model-f32.bin <path to model dir>/q4_0.bin q4_0