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> GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp. GGUF offer
by swyx 3y ago
> GGUF is a new format introduced by the llama.cpp team on August 21st 2023. It is a replacement for GGML, which is no longer supported by llama.cpp. GGUF offers numerous advantages over GGML, such as better tokenisation, and support for special tokens. It is also supports metadata, and is designed to be extensible
is there a more canonical blogpost or link to learn more about the technical decisions here?
- brucethemoose2 3y agohttps://github.com/philpax/ggml/blob/gguf-spec/docs/gguf.md#historical-state-of-affairs https://github.com/philpax/ggml/blob/gguf-spec/docs/gguf.md#... It is (IMO) a necessary and good change. I just specified gguf because my 3090 cannot host a 70B model without offloading outside of exLlama's very new ~2 bit quantization. And pre quantized gguf is a much smaller download than raw fp16 for conversion.
- swyx 3y agothanks very much!