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Re: MiniGPT-4

#41
post #12

I think it's poor form that they are taking the GPT-4 name for an unrelated project. After all, the underlying Vicuna is merely a fine-tuned LLaMA. Plus they use the smaller 13B version. The results look interesting, however. Here's hoping that they'll add GTPQ 4bit quantizing so the 65B version of the model can be run on 2x 3090.

The way things are going, very soon GPT-4 will not be something to aspire to be

Re: MiniGPT-4

#42
post #12

I think it's poor form that they are taking the GPT-4 name for an unrelated project. After all, the underlying Vicuna is merely a fine-tuned LLaMA. Plus they use the smaller 13B version. The results look interesting, however. Here's hoping that they'll add GTPQ 4bit quantizing so the 65B version of the model can be run on 2x 3090.

Its poor form to be calling it 'Open' AI. So I guess its swings and roundabouts. Everyone is leeching where they can.

Re: MiniGPT-4

#43
post #26
post #12

I think it's poor form that they are taking the GPT-4 name for an unrelated project. After all, the underlying Vicuna is merely a fine-tuned LLaMA. Plus they use the smaller 13B version. The results look interesting, however. Here's hoping that they'll add GTPQ 4bit quantizing so the 65B version of the model can be run on 2x 3090.

Someone needs to write a buyer's guide for GPUs and LLMs. For example, what's the best course of action if don't need to train anything but do want to eventually run whatever model becomes the first local-capable equivalent to ChatGPT? Do you go with Nvidia for the CUDA cores or with AMD for more VRAM? Do you do neither and wait another generation?

Depends on whether you just want to play around or have actual business needs, but to play around I'm waiting for the next generation of unified memory architectures

Re: MiniGPT-4

#46
post #26
post #12

I think it's poor form that they are taking the GPT-4 name for an unrelated project. After all, the underlying Vicuna is merely a fine-tuned LLaMA. Plus they use the smaller 13B version. The results look interesting, however. Here's hoping that they'll add GTPQ 4bit quantizing so the 65B version of the model can be run on 2x 3090.

Someone needs to write a buyer's guide for GPUs and LLMs. For example, what's the best course of action if don't need to train anything but do want to eventually run whatever model becomes the first local-capable equivalent to ChatGPT? Do you go with Nvidia for the CUDA cores or with AMD for more VRAM? Do you do neither and wait another generation?

It's pretty simple actually.

Get a 3090 or 4090. Forget about AMD.

Re: MiniGPT-4

#47
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you expect?

A 14-line poem with a consistent rhyme scheme and meter. Perhaps my request should have been more specific.

From my experimentation, LLMs tend to kind of suck at rhyme and meter, and all but the simplest types of poetry, so even if you'd specified it probably wouldn't have been able to deliver.

This is definitely something they could be trained to be much better at, but I guess it's hasn't been a priority.

Re: MiniGPT-4

#48
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a linear layer, and train just the tiny layer on some datasets of image-text pairs Oh yes. Simple! Jesus, this ML stuff makes a humble web dev like myself feel like a dog trying to read Tolstoy.

In practice, it's a lot more like web dev than you might imagine. The above means that the approach is web-dev like gluing, almost literally just, from existingliba import someop from existinglibb import anotherop from someaifw import glue a = someop(X) b = glue(a) Y = anotherop(b)

And just like webdev, each of those were done in a different platform and require arcane incantations and 5h of doc perusing to make it work on your system.

Re: MiniGPT-4

#49
post #26
post #12

I think it's poor form that they are taking the GPT-4 name for an unrelated project. After all, the underlying Vicuna is merely a fine-tuned LLaMA. Plus they use the smaller 13B version. The results look interesting, however. Here's hoping that they'll add GTPQ 4bit quantizing so the 65B version of the model can be run on 2x 3090.

Someone needs to write a buyer's guide for GPUs and LLMs. For example, what's the best course of action if don't need to train anything but do want to eventually run whatever model becomes the first local-capable equivalent to ChatGPT? Do you go with Nvidia for the CUDA cores or with AMD for more VRAM? Do you do neither and wait another generation?

Definitely NVIDIA. Good luck running any real ML models on AMD GPUs.

Re: MiniGPT-4

#50
post #14
post #6

On a technical level, they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a linear layer, and train just the tiny layer on some datasets of image-text pairs. But the results are pretty amazing. It completely knocks Openflamingo && even the original blip2 models out of the park. And best of all, it arrived before OpenAI's GPT-4 Image Modality did. Real win for Open Sourc…

> they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a linear layer, and train just the tiny layer on some datasets of image-text pairs Oh yes. Simple! Jesus, this ML stuff makes a humble web dev like myself feel like a dog trying to read Tolstoy.

> like a dog trying to read Tolstoy

this got a chuckle out loud from me. great visual.

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