diff --git a/api-examples/api-example-chat-stream.py b/api-examples/api-example-chat-stream.py
index 2914d451..a774f907 100644
--- a/api-examples/api-example-chat-stream.py
+++ b/api-examples/api-example-chat-stream.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ async def run(user_input, history):
         'mirostat_mode': 0,
         'mirostat_tau': 5,
         'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+        'guidance_scale': 1,
+        'negative_prompt': '',
 
         'seed': -1,
         'add_bos_token': True,
diff --git a/api-examples/api-example-chat.py b/api-examples/api-example-chat.py
index e2797f1e..824bf3a0 100644
--- a/api-examples/api-example-chat.py
+++ b/api-examples/api-example-chat.py
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ def run(user_input, history):
         'mirostat_mode': 0,
         'mirostat_tau': 5,
         'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+        'guidance_scale': 1,
+        'negative_prompt': '',
 
         'seed': -1,
         'add_bos_token': True,
diff --git a/api-examples/api-example-stream.py b/api-examples/api-example-stream.py
index 175275f9..bf5eabac 100644
--- a/api-examples/api-example-stream.py
+++ b/api-examples/api-example-stream.py
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ async def run(context):
         'mirostat_mode': 0,
         'mirostat_tau': 5,
         'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+        'guidance_scale': 1,
+        'negative_prompt': '',
 
         'seed': -1,
         'add_bos_token': True,
diff --git a/api-examples/api-example.py b/api-examples/api-example.py
index 7f8bc1d2..16029807 100644
--- a/api-examples/api-example.py
+++ b/api-examples/api-example.py
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ def run(prompt):
         'mirostat_mode': 0,
         'mirostat_tau': 5,
         'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+        'guidance_scale': 1,
+        'negative_prompt': '',
 
         'seed': -1,
         'add_bos_token': True,
diff --git a/extensions/api/util.py b/extensions/api/util.py
index ef58a70f..2654d046 100644
--- a/extensions/api/util.py
+++ b/extensions/api/util.py
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ def build_parameters(body, chat=False):
         'mirostat_mode': int(body.get('mirostat_mode', 0)),
         'mirostat_tau': float(body.get('mirostat_tau', 5)),
         'mirostat_eta': float(body.get('mirostat_eta', 0.1)),
+        'guidance_scale': float(body.get('guidance_scale', 1)),
+        'negative_prompt': str(body.get('negative_prompt', '')),
         'seed': int(body.get('seed', -1)),
         'add_bos_token': bool(body.get('add_bos_token', True)),
         'truncation_length': int(body.get('truncation_length', body.get('max_context_length', 2048))),
diff --git a/extensions/openai/defaults.py b/extensions/openai/defaults.py
index cb8308e7..ffef12d0 100644
--- a/extensions/openai/defaults.py
+++ b/extensions/openai/defaults.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ default_req_params = {
     'mirostat_mode': 0,
     'mirostat_tau': 5.0,
     'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+    'guidance_scale': 1,
+    'negative_prompt': '',
     'ban_eos_token': False,
     'skip_special_tokens': True,
     'custom_stopping_strings': '',
diff --git a/modules/exllama.py b/modules/exllama.py
index 00b37b9c..dc632a25 100644
--- a/modules/exllama.py
+++ b/modules/exllama.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
+import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import version as torch_version
 
 from modules import shared
 from modules.logging_colors import logger
+from modules.models import clear_torch_cache
 from modules.text_generation import get_max_prompt_length
 
 try:
@@ -78,6 +80,21 @@ class ExllamaModel:
         return result, result
 
     def generate_with_streaming(self, prompt, state):
+
+        # The cache batch size must be 2 for CFG and 1 otherwise
+        if state['guidance_scale'] == 1:
+            if self.cache.batch_size == 2:
+                del self.cache
+                clear_torch_cache()
+                self.cache = ExLlamaCache(self.model)
+                self.generator = ExLlamaGenerator(self.model, self.tokenizer, self.cache)
+        else:
+            if self.cache.batch_size == 1:
+                del self.cache
+                clear_torch_cache()
+                self.cache = ExLlamaCache(self.model, batch_size=2)
+                self.generator = ExLlamaGenerator(self.model, self.tokenizer, self.cache)
+
         self.generator.settings.temperature = state['temperature']
         self.generator.settings.top_p = state['top_p']
         self.generator.settings.top_k = state['top_k']
@@ -89,31 +106,71 @@ class ExllamaModel:
         else:
             self.generator.disallow_tokens(None)
 
-        self.generator.end_beam_search()
+        # Case 1: no CFG
+        if state['guidance_scale'] == 1:
+            self.generator.end_beam_search()
 
-        # Tokenizing the input
-        ids = self.generator.tokenizer.encode(prompt)
-        ids = ids[:, -get_max_prompt_length(state):]
-        if state['auto_max_new_tokens']:
-            max_new_tokens = state['truncation_length'] - ids.shape[-1]
+            # Tokenizing the input
+            ids = self.generator.tokenizer.encode(prompt)
+            ids = ids[:, -get_max_prompt_length(state):]
+            if state['auto_max_new_tokens']:
+                max_new_tokens = state['truncation_length'] - ids.shape[-1]
+            else:
+                max_new_tokens = state['max_new_tokens']
+
+            self.generator.gen_begin_reuse(ids)
+            initial_len = self.generator.sequence[0].shape[0]
+            has_leading_space = False
+
+            for i in range(max_new_tokens):
+                token = self.generator.gen_single_token()
+                if i == 0 and self.generator.tokenizer.tokenizer.IdToPiece(int(token)).startswith('▁'):
+                    has_leading_space = True
+
+                decoded_text = self.generator.tokenizer.decode(self.generator.sequence[0][initial_len:])
+                if has_leading_space:
+                    decoded_text = ' ' + decoded_text
+
+                yield decoded_text
+                if token.item() == self.generator.tokenizer.eos_token_id or shared.stop_everything:
+                    break
+
+        # Case 2: CFG
         else:
-            max_new_tokens = state['max_new_tokens']
+            alpha = state['guidance_scale']
+            prompts = [prompt, state['negative_prompt'] or '']
 
-        self.generator.gen_begin_reuse(ids)
-        initial_len = self.generator.sequence[0].shape[0]
-        has_leading_space = False
-        for i in range(max_new_tokens):
-            token = self.generator.gen_single_token()
-            if i == 0 and self.generator.tokenizer.tokenizer.IdToPiece(int(token)).startswith('▁'):
-                has_leading_space = True
+            ids, mask = self.tokenizer.encode(prompts, return_mask=True)
+            if state['auto_max_new_tokens']:
+                max_new_tokens = state['truncation_length'] - ids[0].shape[-1]
+            else:
+                max_new_tokens = state['max_new_tokens']
 
-            decoded_text = self.generator.tokenizer.decode(self.generator.sequence[0][initial_len:])
-            if has_leading_space:
-                decoded_text = ' ' + decoded_text
+            self.generator.gen_begin(ids, mask=mask)
+            initial_len = self.generator.sequence[0].shape[0]
+            has_leading_space = False
 
-            yield decoded_text
-            if token.item() == self.generator.tokenizer.eos_token_id or shared.stop_everything:
-                break
+            for i in range(max_new_tokens):
+                logits = self.model.forward(self.generator.sequence[:, -1:], self.cache, input_mask=mask)
+                self.generator.apply_rep_penalty(logits)
+
+                logits = F.log_softmax(logits, dim=-1)
+                logits_mixed = alpha * logits[0] + (1 - alpha) * logits[1]
+
+                token, _ = self.generator.sample_current(logits_mixed)
+                if i == 0 and self.generator.tokenizer.tokenizer.IdToPiece(int(token)).startswith('▁'):
+                    has_leading_space = True
+
+                decoded_text = self.generator.tokenizer.decode(self.generator.sequence[0][initial_len:])
+                if has_leading_space:
+                    decoded_text = ' ' + decoded_text
+
+                yield decoded_text
+                if token.item() == self.tokenizer.eos_token_id or shared.stop_everything:
+                    break
+
+                batch_token = token.repeat(2, 1)
+                self.generator.gen_accept_token(batch_token)
 
     def generate(self, prompt, state):
         output = ''
diff --git a/modules/exllama_hf.py b/modules/exllama_hf.py
index fd775b4a..ebafb4f7 100644
--- a/modules/exllama_hf.py
+++ b/modules/exllama_hf.py
@@ -47,12 +47,11 @@ class ExllamaHF(PreTrainedModel):
         return torch.device(0)
 
     def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # TODO: Some decoding methods (such as Contrastive Search) may not work at this time
-        assert len(args) == 0, 'no *args should be passed to forward'
+        input_ids = args[0] if len(args) > 0 else kwargs['input_ids']
         use_cache = kwargs.get('use_cache', True)
         labels = kwargs.get('labels', None)
-        seq = kwargs['input_ids'][0].tolist()
-        cache = kwargs['past_key_values'] if 'past_key_values' in kwargs else None
+        cache = kwargs.get('past_key_values', None)
+        seq = input_ids[0].tolist()
 
         if labels is None:
             if cache is None:
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@ class ExllamaHF(PreTrainedModel):
                 cache = self.ex_cache
                 self.ex_model.forward(torch.tensor([seq[:-1]], dtype=torch.long), cache, preprocess_only=True, lora=self.lora)
 
-            logits = self.ex_model.forward(torch.tensor([seq[-1:]], dtype=torch.long), cache, lora=self.lora).to(kwargs['input_ids'].device)
+            logits = self.ex_model.forward(torch.tensor([seq[-1:]], dtype=torch.long), cache, lora=self.lora).to(input_ids.device)
         else:
             if cache is None:
                 self.ex_cache.current_seq_len = 0
diff --git a/modules/llamacpp_hf.py b/modules/llamacpp_hf.py
index e9f4ade6..df9e0b2e 100644
--- a/modules/llamacpp_hf.py
+++ b/modules/llamacpp_hf.py
@@ -49,12 +49,11 @@ class LlamacppHF(PreTrainedModel):
         return torch.device(0)
 
     def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        # TODO: Some decoding methods (such as Contrastive Search) may not work at this time
-        assert len(args) == 0, 'no *args should be passed to forward'
+        input_ids = args[0] if len(args) > 0 else kwargs['input_ids']
         use_cache = kwargs.get('use_cache', True)
         labels = kwargs.get('labels', None)
-        seq = kwargs['input_ids'][0].tolist()
-        cache = kwargs['past_key_values'] if 'past_key_values' in kwargs else None
+        cache = kwargs.get('past_key_values', None)
+        seq = input_ids[0].tolist()
 
         # Make the forward call
         seq_tensor = torch.tensor(seq)
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ class LlamacppHF(PreTrainedModel):
             self.model.reset()
             self.model.eval(seq)
             logits = torch.tensor(self.model.eval_logits)
-            logits = logits.view(1, logits.shape[0], logits.shape[1]).to(kwargs['input_ids'].device)
+            logits = logits.view(1, logits.shape[0], logits.shape[1]).to(input_ids.device)
 
         self.cache = seq_tensor
 
diff --git a/modules/loaders.py b/modules/loaders.py
index aa1afcb8..519e47a7 100644
--- a/modules/loaders.py
+++ b/modules/loaders.py
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ loaders_samplers = {
         'mirostat_mode',
         'mirostat_tau',
         'mirostat_eta',
+        'guidance_scale',
+        'negative_prompt',
         'ban_eos_token',
         'add_bos_token',
         'skip_special_tokens',
@@ -152,6 +154,8 @@ loaders_samplers = {
         'repetition_penalty',
         'repetition_penalty_range',
         'seed',
+        'guidance_scale',
+        'negative_prompt',
         'ban_eos_token',
         'auto_max_new_tokens',
     },
@@ -178,6 +182,8 @@ loaders_samplers = {
         'mirostat_mode',
         'mirostat_tau',
         'mirostat_eta',
+        'guidance_scale',
+        'negative_prompt',
         'ban_eos_token',
         'add_bos_token',
         'skip_special_tokens',
@@ -206,6 +212,8 @@ loaders_samplers = {
         'mirostat_mode',
         'mirostat_tau',
         'mirostat_eta',
+        'guidance_scale',
+        'negative_prompt',
         'ban_eos_token',
         'add_bos_token',
         'skip_special_tokens',
diff --git a/modules/presets.py b/modules/presets.py
index 072b15fd..32b7f71c 100644
--- a/modules/presets.py
+++ b/modules/presets.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ def default_preset():
         'do_sample': True,
         'temperature': 1,
         'top_p': 1,
+        'top_k': 0,
         'typical_p': 1,
         'epsilon_cutoff': 0,
         'eta_cutoff': 0,
@@ -17,19 +18,23 @@ def default_preset():
         'repetition_penalty': 1,
         'repetition_penalty_range': 0,
         'encoder_repetition_penalty': 1,
-        'top_k': 0,
-        'num_beams': 1,
-        'penalty_alpha': 0,
-        'min_length': 0,
-        'length_penalty': 1,
         'no_repeat_ngram_size': 0,
-        'early_stopping': False,
+        'min_length': 0,
+        'guidance_scale': 1,
         'mirostat_mode': 0,
         'mirostat_tau': 5.0,
         'mirostat_eta': 0.1,
+        'penalty_alpha': 0,
+        'num_beams': 1,
+        'length_penalty': 1,
+        'early_stopping': False,
     }
 
 
+def presets_params():
+    return [k for k in default_preset()]
+
+
 def load_preset(name):
     generate_params = default_preset()
     if name not in ['None', None, '']:
@@ -51,12 +56,12 @@ def load_preset_memoized(name):
 def load_preset_for_ui(name, state):
     generate_params = load_preset(name)
     state.update(generate_params)
-    return state, *[generate_params[k] for k in ['do_sample', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'typical_p', 'epsilon_cutoff', 'eta_cutoff', 'repetition_penalty', 'repetition_penalty_range', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'top_k', 'min_length', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'num_beams', 'penalty_alpha', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'mirostat_mode', 'mirostat_tau', 'mirostat_eta', 'tfs', 'top_a']]
+    return state, *[generate_params[k] for k in presets_params()]
 
 
 def generate_preset_yaml(state):
     defaults = default_preset()
-    data = {k: state[k] for k in ['do_sample', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'typical_p', 'epsilon_cutoff', 'eta_cutoff', 'repetition_penalty', 'repetition_penalty_range', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'top_k', 'min_length', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'num_beams', 'penalty_alpha', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'mirostat_mode', 'mirostat_tau', 'mirostat_eta', 'tfs', 'top_a']}
+    data = {k: state[k] for k in presets_params()}
 
     # Remove entries that are identical to the defaults
     for k in list(data.keys()):
diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 51017a1b..be5be109 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ settings = {
     'max_new_tokens_max': 4096,
     'auto_max_new_tokens': False,
     'seed': -1,
+    'negative_prompt': '',
     'character': 'None',
     'name1': 'You',
     'name2': 'Assistant',
diff --git a/modules/text_generation.py b/modules/text_generation.py
index 7507a731..df9d708b 100644
--- a/modules/text_generation.py
+++ b/modules/text_generation.py
@@ -226,9 +226,12 @@ def _generate_reply(question, state, stopping_strings=None, is_chat=False):
 
 def generate_reply_HF(question, original_question, seed, state, stopping_strings=None, is_chat=False):
     generate_params = {}
-    for k in ['max_new_tokens', 'do_sample', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'typical_p', 'repetition_penalty', 'repetition_penalty_range', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'top_k', 'min_length', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'num_beams', 'penalty_alpha', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'tfs', 'top_a', 'mirostat_mode', 'mirostat_tau', 'mirostat_eta']:
+    for k in ['max_new_tokens', 'do_sample', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'typical_p', 'repetition_penalty', 'repetition_penalty_range', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'top_k', 'min_length', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'num_beams', 'penalty_alpha', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'tfs', 'top_a', 'mirostat_mode', 'mirostat_tau', 'mirostat_eta', 'guidance_scale']:
         generate_params[k] = state[k]
 
+    if state['negative_prompt'] != '':
+        generate_params['negative_prompt_ids'] = encode(state['negative_prompt'])
+
     for k in ['epsilon_cutoff', 'eta_cutoff']:
         if state[k] > 0:
             generate_params[k] = state[k] * 1e-4
diff --git a/modules/ui.py b/modules/ui.py
index eed2ef66..8a7f9f47 100644
--- a/modules/ui.py
+++ b/modules/ui.py
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ def list_interface_input_elements():
         'mirostat_mode',
         'mirostat_tau',
         'mirostat_eta',
+        'negative_prompt',
+        'guidance_scale',
         'add_bos_token',
         'ban_eos_token',
         'truncation_length',
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 5a46addd..9deadd48 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ safetensors==0.3.1
 scipy
 sentencepiece
 tensorboard
-transformers==4.31.*
 tqdm
 wandb
 git+https://github.com/huggingface/peft@96c0277a1b9a381b10ab34dbf84917f9b3b992e6
+git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers@d533465150532b0c5de167b574e59f64c68b1154
 bitsandbytes==0.41.1; platform_system != "Windows"
 https://github.com/jllllll/bitsandbytes-windows-webui/releases/download/wheels/bitsandbytes-0.41.1-py3-none-win_amd64.whl; platform_system == "Windows"
 https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ/releases/download/v0.3.0/auto_gptq-0.3.0+cu117-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl; platform_system == "Windows"
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 0e1d199d..adff9669 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def create_model_menus():
                         shared.gradio['pre_layer'] = gr.Slider(label="pre_layer", minimum=0, maximum=100, value=shared.args.pre_layer[0] if shared.args.pre_layer is not None else 0)
                         shared.gradio['autogptq_info'] = gr.Markdown('* ExLlama_HF is recommended over AutoGPTQ for models derived from LLaMA.')
                         shared.gradio['gpu_split'] = gr.Textbox(label='gpu-split', info='Comma-separated list of VRAM (in GB) to use per GPU. Example: 20,7,7')
-                        shared.gradio['max_seq_len'] = gr.Slider(label='max_seq_len', minimum=2048, maximum=16384, step=256, info='Maximum sequence length.', value=shared.args.max_seq_len)
+                        shared.gradio['max_seq_len'] = gr.Slider(label='max_seq_len', minimum=0, maximum=16384, step=256, info='Maximum sequence length.', value=shared.args.max_seq_len)
                         shared.gradio['compress_pos_emb'] = gr.Slider(label='compress_pos_emb', minimum=1, maximum=8, step=1, info='Positional embeddings compression factor. Should typically be set to max_seq_len / 2048.', value=shared.args.compress_pos_emb)
                         shared.gradio['alpha_value'] = gr.Slider(label='alpha_value', minimum=1, maximum=32, step=1, info='Positional embeddings alpha factor for NTK RoPE scaling. Scaling is not identical to embedding compression. Use either this or compress_pos_emb, not both.', value=shared.args.alpha_value)
 
@@ -408,6 +408,8 @@ def create_settings_menus(default_preset):
             with gr.Box():
                 with gr.Row():
                     with gr.Column():
+                        shared.gradio['guidance_scale'] = gr.Slider(-0.5, 2.5, step=0.05, value=generate_params['guidance_scale'], label='guidance_scale', info='For CFG. 1.5 is a good value.')
+                        shared.gradio['negative_prompt'] = gr.Textbox(value=shared.settings['negative_prompt'], label='Negative prompt')
                         shared.gradio['mirostat_mode'] = gr.Slider(0, 2, step=1, value=generate_params['mirostat_mode'], label='mirostat_mode', info='mode=1 is for llama.cpp only.')
                         shared.gradio['mirostat_tau'] = gr.Slider(0, 10, step=0.01, value=generate_params['mirostat_tau'], label='mirostat_tau')
                         shared.gradio['mirostat_eta'] = gr.Slider(0, 1, step=0.01, value=generate_params['mirostat_eta'], label='mirostat_eta')
@@ -433,7 +435,7 @@ def create_settings_menus(default_preset):
                         shared.gradio['stream'] = gr.Checkbox(value=not shared.args.no_stream, label='Activate text streaming')
 
     filter_by_loader.change(loaders.blacklist_samplers, filter_by_loader, gradio(loaders.list_all_samplers()), show_progress=False)
-    shared.gradio['preset_menu'].change(presets.load_preset_for_ui, gradio('preset_menu', 'interface_state'), gradio('interface_state', 'do_sample', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'typical_p', 'epsilon_cutoff', 'eta_cutoff', 'repetition_penalty', 'repetition_penalty_range', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'top_k', 'min_length', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'num_beams', 'penalty_alpha', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'mirostat_mode', 'mirostat_tau', 'mirostat_eta', 'tfs', 'top_a'))
+    shared.gradio['preset_menu'].change(presets.load_preset_for_ui, gradio('preset_menu', 'interface_state'), gradio('interface_state') + gradio(presets.presets_params()))
 
 
 def create_file_saving_menus():
diff --git a/settings-template.yaml b/settings-template.yaml
index 62e86371..a0c53b33 100644
--- a/settings-template.yaml
+++ b/settings-template.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ max_new_tokens_min: 1
 max_new_tokens_max: 4096
 auto_max_new_tokens: false
 seed: -1
+negative_prompt: ''
 character: None
 name1: You
 name2: Assistant