llama.rn

React Native binding of llama.cpp.

llama.cpp: Inference of LLaMA model in pure C/C++

Installation

npm install llama.rn

iOS

Please re-run npx pod-install again.

Android

Add proguard rule if it's enabled in project (android/app/proguard-rules.pro):

# llama.rn
-keep class com.rnllama.** { *; }

Obtain the model

You can search HuggingFace for available models (Keyword: GGUF).

For create a GGUF model manually, for example in Llama 2:

Download the Llama 2 model

1. Request access from here
2. Download the model from HuggingFace here (Llama-2-7b-chat)

Convert the model to ggml format

# Start with submodule in this repo (or you can clone the repo https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp.git)
yarn && yarn bootstrap
cd llama.cpp

# install Python dependencies
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

# Move the Llama model weights to the models folder
mv <path to Llama-2-7b-chat> ./models/7B

# convert the 7B model to ggml FP16 format
python3 convert.py models/7B/ --outtype f16

# Build the quantize tool
make quantize

# quantize the model to 2-bits (using q2_k method)
./quantize ./models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf ./models/7B/ggml-model-q2_k.gguf q2_k

# quantize the model to 4-bits (using q4_0 method)
./quantize ./models/7B/ggml-model-f16.gguf ./models/7B/ggml-model-q4_0.gguf q4_0

Usage

import { initLlama } from 'llama.rn'

// Initial a Llama context with the model (may take a while)
const context = await initLlama({
  model: 'file://<path to gguf model>',
  use_mlock: true,
  n_ctx: 2048,
  n_gpu_layers: 1, // > 0: enable Metal on iOS
  // embedding: true, // use embedding
})

// Do completion
const { text, timings } = await context.completion(
  {
    prompt: 'This is a conversation between user and llama, a friendly chatbot. respond in simple markdown.\n\nUser: Hello!\nLlama:',
    n_predict: 100,
    stop: ['</s>', 'Llama:', 'User:'],
    // n_threads: 4,
  },
  (data) => {
    // This is a partial completion callback
    const { token } = data
  },
)
console.log('Result:', text)
console.log('Timings:', timings)

The binding’s deisgn inspired by server.cpp example in llama.cpp, so you can map its API to LlamaContext:

• /completion: context.completion(params, partialCompletionCallback)
• /tokenize: context.tokenize(content)
• /detokenize: context.detokenize(tokens)
• /embedding: context.embedding(content)
• Other methods
  • context.loadSession(path)
  • context.saveSession(path)
  • context.stopCompletion()
  • context.release()

Please visit the Documentation for more details.

You can also visit the example to see how to use it.

Run the example:

yarn && yarn bootstrap

# iOS
yarn example ios
# Use device
yarn example ios --device "<device name>"
# With release mode
yarn example ios --mode Release

# Android
yarn example android
# With release mode
yarn example android --mode release

This example used react-native-document-picker for select model.

• iOS: You can move the model to iOS Simulator, or iCloud for real device.
• Android: Selected file will be copied or downloaded to cache directory so it may be slow.

Grammar Sampling

GBNF (GGML BNF) is a format for defining formal grammars to constrain model outputs in llama.cpp. For example, you can use it to force the model to generate valid JSON, or speak only in emojis.

You can see GBNF Guide for more details.

llama.rn provided a built-in function to convert JSON Schema to GBNF:

import { initLlama, convertJsonSchemaToGrammar } from 'llama.rn'

const schema = { /* JSON Schema, see below */ }

const context = await initLlama({
  model: 'file://<path to gguf model>',
  use_mlock: true,
  n_ctx: 2048,
  n_gpu_layers: 1, // > 0: enable Metal on iOS
  // embedding: true, // use embedding
  grammar: convertJsonSchemaToGrammar({
    schema,
    propOrder: { function: 0, arguments: 1 },
  })
})

const { text } = await context.completion({
  prompt: 'Schedule a birthday party on Aug 14th 2023 at 8pm.',
})
console.log('Result:', text)
// Example output:
// {"function": "create_event","arguments":{"date": "Aug 14th 2023", "time": "8pm", "title": "Birthday Party"}}

JSON Schema example (Define function get_current_weather / create_event / image_search)

{
  oneOf: [
    {
      type: "object",
      name: "get_current_weather",
      description: "Get the current weather in a given location",
      properties: {
        function: {
          const: "get_current_weather",
        },
        arguments: {
          type: "object",
          properties: {
            location: {
              type: "string",
              description: "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
            },
            unit: {
              type: "string",
              enum: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"],
            },
          },
          required: ["location"],
        },
      },
    },
    {
      type: "object",
      name: "create_event",
      description: "Create a calendar event",
      properties: {
        function: {
          const: "create_event",
        },
        arguments: {
          type: "object",
          properties: {
            title: {
              type: "string",
              description: "The title of the event",
            },
            date: {
              type: "string",
              description: "The date of the event",
            },
            time: {
              type: "string",
              description: "The time of the event",
            },
          },
          required: ["title", "date", "time"],
        },
      },
    },
    {
      type: "object",
      name: "image_search",
      description: "Search for an image",
      properties: {
        function: {
          const: "image_search",
        },
        arguments: {
          type: "object",
          properties: {
            query: {
              type: "string",
              description: "The search query",
            },
          },
          required: ["query"],
        },
      },
    },
  ],
}

Converted GBNF looks like

space ::= " "?
0-function ::= "\"get_current_weather\""
string ::=  "\"" (
        [^"\\] |
        "\\" (["\\/bfnrt] | "u" [0-9a-fA-F] [0-9a-fA-F] [0-9a-fA-F] [0-9a-fA-F])
      )* "\"" space
0-arguments-unit ::= "\"celsius\"" | "\"fahrenheit\""
0-arguments ::= "{" space "\"location\"" space ":" space string "," space "\"unit\"" space ":" space 0-arguments-unit "}" space
0 ::= "{" space "\"function\"" space ":" space 0-function "," space "\"arguments\"" space ":" space 0-arguments "}" space
1-function ::= "\"create_event\""
1-arguments ::= "{" space "\"date\"" space ":" space string "," space "\"time\"" space ":" space string "," space "\"title\"" space ":" space string "}" space
1 ::= "{" space "\"function\"" space ":" space 1-function "," space "\"arguments\"" space ":" space 1-arguments "}" space
2-function ::= "\"image_search\""
2-arguments ::= "{" space "\"query\"" space ":" space string "}" space
2 ::= "{" space "\"function\"" space ":" space 2-function "," space "\"arguments\"" space ":" space 2-arguments "}" space
root ::= 0 | 1 | 2

Mock llama.rn

We have provided a mock version of llama.rn for testing purpose you can use on Jest:

jest.mock('llama.rn', () => require('llama.rn/jest/mock'))

NOTE

iOS:

• The Extended Virtual Addressing capability is recommended to enable on iOS project.
• Metal:
  • We have tested to know some devices is not able to use Metal ('params.n_gpu_layers > 0') due to llama.cpp used SIMD-scoped operation, you can check if your device is supported in Metal feature set tables, Apple7 GPU will be the minimum requirement.
  • It's also not supported in iOS simulator due to this limitation, we used constant buffers more than 14.

Android:

• Currently only supported arm64-v8a / x86_64 platform, this means you can't initialize a context on another platforms. The 64-bit platform are recommended because it can allocate more memory for the model.
• No integrated any GPU backend yet.

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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