Yes, it's an optional feature. It uses FlashAttention by default, but you can optionally use FlashAttention 2 via pip install 'flash-attn>=2.0.0.post1' –no-build-isolation
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Stable Diffusion Anniversary: One Year of Generative AI Innovation
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One year ago, we co-released @StableDiffusion
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QLoRA Support Added to Lit-GPT for All LLM Models
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Just added QLoRA support for all LLMs in Lit-GPT: Llama 2, Falcon, Pythia, StableLM, and all others! You can use it via `python finetune/lora.py –quantize "bnb.nf4"` to save significant GPU memory. I've ran a few more benchmarks on the Gh PR here: https://
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Camenduru Returns with AI WebUI Tool Under Organization
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Amazon Textract Integration for LangChain PDF Loading
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Amazon Textract Integration Loading PDFs has been one of the biggest areas of questions for folks using LangChain to connect to their data That's why I'm excited to highlight our recently-added integration with Amazon Textract https://
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Open Source Cloud Collaborations: Following the Money Trail
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Wondering if OpenELA, OpenTF, or other open source corporate collaborations will work? Follow the cloud money https://
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Llama2 Finetuned Models Now Available as Predicted
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Llama2 finetunes are here as predicted on the pod
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LangSmith RAG Testing Webinar and Evaluation Cookbook
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RAG Evaluation Webinar Last week @WHinthorn added a fantastic cookbook using LangSmith to test RAG systems: https://
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SAS Explore Conference: Data Analytics, AI and Open Source Networking
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Data is at the heart of everything we do 📈. You too, can be at the center by experiencing everything data analytics, open source, #AI & lots of networking at SAS Explore.
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Registration is open, business analysts! Get ahead, and stay ahead 👉 https://t.co/X3CEw8z6OU #ExploreSAS pic.twitter.com/QnFzP5yelJData is at the heart of everything we do . You too, can be at the center by experiencing everything data analytics, open source, #AI & lots of networking at SAS Explore. Registration is open, business analysts! Get ahead, and stay ahead http://
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NeurIPS 2023 LLM Efficiency Challenge Quickstart Guide
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Interested in the NeurIPS 2023 LLM Efficiency Challenge or just training your custom LLM on 1 GPU? Wrote a new quickstart guide to get started in ~5 min: https://
github.com/Lightning-AI/l
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… If there's interest, also happy to write an article w. research directions to explore. Let me know!