text-generation-webui

A gradio webui for running large language models locally. Supports gpt-j-6B, gpt-neox-20b, opt, galactica, and many others.

Its goal is to become the AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui of text generation.

Features

Switch between different models using a dropdown menu.
Generate nice HTML output for gpt4chan.
Generate Markdown output for GALACTICA, including LaTeX support.
Notebook mode that resembles OpenAI's playground.
Chat mode for conversation and role playing.
Load 13b/20b models in 8-bit mode.
Load parameter presets from text files.

Installation

Create a conda environment:

conda create -n textgen
conda activate textgen

Install the appropriate pytorch for your GPU. For NVIDIA GPUs, this should work:

conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=11.7 -c pytorch -c nvidia

Install the requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Downloading models

Models should be placed under models/model-name. For instance, models/gpt-j-6B for gpt-j-6B.

Hugging Face

Hugging Face is the main place to download models. These are some of my favorite:

The files that you need to download are the json, txt, and pytorch*.bin files. The remaining files are not necessary.

For your convenience, you can automatically download a model from HF using the script download-model.py. Its usage is very simple:

python download-model.py organization/model

For instance:

python download-model.py facebook/opt-1.3b

gpt4chan

gpt4chan has been shut down from Hugging Face, so you need to download it elsewhere. You have two options:

Torrent: 16-bit / 32-bit
Direct download: 16-bit / 32-bit

Converting to pytorch

The script convert-to-torch.py allows you to convert models to .pt format, which is about 10x faster to load:

python convert-to-torch.py models/model-name/

The output model will be saved to torch-dumps/model-name.pt. When you load a new model, the webui first looks for this .pt file; if it is not found, it loads the model as usual from models/model-name/.

Starting the webui

conda activate textgen
python server.py

Then browse to

http://localhost:7860/?__theme=dark

Optionally, you can use the following command-line flags:

--model model-name: Load this model by default.

--notebook: Launch the webui in notebook mode, where the output is written to the same text box as the input.

--chat: Launch the webui in chat mode.

Presets

Inference settings presets can be created under presets/ as text files. These files are detected automatically at startup.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

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