Generate text with distributed **Llama 2** (70B), **Falcon** (40B+), **BLOOM** (176B) (or their derivatives), and fine‑tune them for your own tasks — right from your desktop computer or Google Colab:
🔏 **Privacy.** Your data will be processed with the help of other people in the public swarm. Learn more about privacy [here](https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Security,-privacy,-and-AI-safety). For sensitive data, you can set up a [private swarm](https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Launch-your-own-swarm) among people you trust.
🦙 **Want to run Llama 2?** Request access to its weights at the ♾️ [Meta AI website](https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-downloads/) and 🤗 [Model Hub](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-hf), then run `huggingface-cli login` in the terminal before loading the model. Or just try it in our [chatbot app](https://chat.petals.dev).
Petals is a community-run system — we rely on people sharing their GPUs. You can check out [available models](https://health.petals.dev) and help serving one of them! As an example, here is how to host a part of [Stable Beluga 2](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2) on your GPU:
🐧 **Linux + Anaconda.** Run these commands for NVIDIA GPUs (or follow [this](https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Running-on-AMD-GPU) for AMD):
🐋 **Docker.** Run our [Docker](https://www.docker.com) image for NVIDIA GPUs (or follow [this](https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Running-on-AMD-GPU) for AMD):
📚 <b><ahref="https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/FAQ:-Frequently-asked-questions#running-a-server">Learn more</a></b> (how to use multiple GPUs, start the server on boot, etc.)
🦙 **Want to host Llama 2?** Request access to its weights at the ♾️ [Meta AI website](https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-downloads/) and 🤗 [Model Hub](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-hf), generate an 🔑 [access token](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens), then add `--token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE` to the `python -m petals.cli.run_server` command.
🔒 **Security.** Hosting a server does not allow others to run custom code on your computer. Learn more [here](https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals/wiki/Security,-privacy,-and-AI-safety).
🏆 **Thank you!** Once you load and host 10+ blocks, we can show your name or link on the [swarm monitor](https://health.petals.dev) as a way to say thanks. You can specify them with `--public_name YOUR_NAME`.
- You load a small part of the model, then join a [network](https://health.petals.dev) of people serving the other parts. Single‑batch inference runs at up to **6 tokens/sec** for **Llama 2** (70B) and up to **4 tokens/sec** for **Falcon** (180B) — enough for [chatbots](https://chat.petals.dev) and interactive apps.
- You can employ any fine-tuning and sampling methods, execute custom paths through the model, or see its hidden states. You get the comforts of an API with the flexibility of **PyTorch** and **🤗 Transformers**.
- Prompt-tune Llama-65B for text semantic classification: [tutorial](https://colab.research.google.com/github/bigscience-workshop/petals/blob/main/examples/prompt-tuning-sst2.ipynb)
- Prompt-tune BLOOM to create a personified chatbot: [tutorial](https://colab.research.google.com/github/bigscience-workshop/petals/blob/main/examples/prompt-tuning-personachat.ipynb)
Useful tools:
- [Chatbot web app](https://chat.petals.dev) (connects to Petals via an HTTP/WebSocket endpoint): [source code](https://github.com/petals-infra/chat.petals.dev)
- [Monitor](https://health.petals.dev) for the public swarm: [source code](https://github.com/petals-infra/health.petals.dev)
Alexander Borzunov, Dmitry Baranchuk, Tim Dettmers, Max Ryabinin, Younes Belkada, Artem Chumachenko, Pavel Samygin, and Colin Raffel.
[Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01188)
_arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01188,_ 2022.
```bibtex
@article{borzunov2022petals,
title = {Petals: Collaborative Inference and Fine-tuning of Large Models},
author = {Borzunov, Alexander and Baranchuk, Dmitry and Dettmers, Tim and Ryabinin, Max and Belkada, Younes and Chumachenko, Artem and Samygin, Pavel and Raffel, Colin},