---
license: other
license_name: yi-license
license_link: LICENSE
widget:
- example_title: "Yi-34B-Chat"
text: "hi"
output:
text: " Hello! How can I assist you today?"
- example_title: "Yi-34B"
text: "There's a place where time stands still. A place of breath taking wonder, but also"
output:
text: " an eerie sense that something is just not right…\nBetween the two worlds lies The Forgotten Kingdom - home to creatures long since thought extinct and ancient magic so strong it defies belief! Only here can you find what has been lost for centuries: An Elixir Of Life which will restore youth and vitality if only those who seek its power are brave enough to face up against all manner of dangers lurking in this mysterious land! But beware; some say there may even exist powerful entities beyond our comprehension whose intentions towards humanity remain unclear at best ---- they might want nothing more than destruction itself rather then anything else from their quest after immortality (and maybe someone should tell them about modern medicine)? In any event though – one thing remains true regardless : whether or not success comes easy depends entirely upon how much effort we put into conquering whatever challenges lie ahead along with having faith deep down inside ourselves too ;) So let’s get started now shall We?"
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---
Building the Next Generation of Open-Source and Bilingual LLMs
📕 Table of Contents
- [🟢 What is Yi?](#-what-is-yi)
- [📌 Introduction](#-introduction)
- [🎯 Models](#-models)
- [Chat models](#chat-models)
- [Base models](#base-models)
- [Other info](#other-info)
- [🎉 News](#-news)
- [🟢 How to use Yi?](#-how-to-use-yi)
- [Quick start](#quick-start)
- [Choose your path](#choose-your-parth)
- [pip](#pip)
- [llama.cpp](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/yi_llama.cpp.md)
- [Web demo](#web-demo)
- [Fine tune](#fine-tune)
- [Quantization](#quantization)
- [Deployment](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/deployment.md)
- [Learning hub](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/learning_hub.md)
- [🟢 Why Yi?](#-why-yi)
- [🌎 Ecosystem](#-ecosystem)
- [💦 Upstream](#-upstream)
- [🌊 Downstream](#-downstream)
- [🔗 Serving](#-serving)
- [⚙️ Quantitation](#️-quantitation)
- [🛠️ Fine-tuning](#️-fine-tuning)
- [API](#api)
- [📌 Benchmarks](#-benchmarks)
- [📊 Base model performance](#-base-model-performance)
- [📊 Chat model performance](#-chat-model-performance)
- [📊 Quantized chat model performance](#-quantized-chat-model-performance)
- [🟢 Who can use Yi?](#-who-can-use-yi)
- [🟢 Misc.](#-misc)
- [Ackknowledgements](#acknowledgments)
- [📡 Disclaimer](#-disclaimer)
- [🪪 License](#-license)
# 🟢 What is Yi?
## 📌 Introduction
- 🤖 The Yi series models are the next generation of open-source large language models trained from scratch by [01.AI](https://01.ai/).
- 🙌 Targeted as a bilingual language model and trained on 3T multilingual corpus, the Yi series models become one of the strongest LLM worldwide, showing promise in language understanding, commonsense reasoning, reading comprehension, and more. For example,
- For English language capability, the Yi series models ranked 2nd (just behind GPT-4), outperforming other LLMs (such as LLaMA2-chat-70B, Claude 2, and ChatGPT) on the [AlpacaEval Leaderboard](https://tatsu-lab.github.io/alpaca_eval/) in Dec 2023.
- For Chinese language capability, the Yi series models landed in 2nd place (following GPT4), surpassing other LLMs (such as Baidu ERNIE, Qwen, and Baichuan) on the [SuperCLUE](https://www.superclueai.com/) in Oct 2023.
- 🙏 (Credits to LLaMA) Thanks to the Transformer and LLaMA open-source communities, as they reducing the efforts required to build from scratch and enabling the utilization of the same tools within the AI ecosystem. If you're interested in Yi's adoption of LLaMA architecture and license usage policy, see [Yi's relation with LLaMA](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/yi_relation_llama.md).
## 🎯 Models
Yi models come in multiple sizes and cater to different use cases. You can also fine-tune Yi models to meet your specific requirements.
For detailed deployment requirements, see [hardware requirements](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/deployment.md#hardware-requirements).
### Chat models
| Model | Download
|---|---
Yi-6B-Chat| • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-6B-Chat) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-6B-Chat/summary)
Yi-6B-Chat-4bits | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-6B-Chat-4bits) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-6B-Chat-4bits/summary)
Yi-6B-Chat-8bits | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-6B-Chat-8bits) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-6B-Chat-8bits/summary)
Yi-34B-Chat | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-34B-Chat/summary)
Yi-34B-Chat-4bits | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat-4bits) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-34B-Chat-4bits/summary)
Yi-34B-Chat-8bits | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat-8bits) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-34B-Chat-8bits/summary)
- 4-bit series models are quantized by AWQ. - 8-bit series models are quantized by GPTQ - All quantized models have a low barrier to use since they can be deployed on consumer-grade GPUs (e.g., 3090, 4090).
### Base models
| Model | Download |
|---|---|
Yi-6B| • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-6B) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-6B/summary)
Yi-6B-200K | • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-6B-200K) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-6B-200K/summary)
Yi-34B| • [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-34B) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-34B/summary)
Yi-34B-200K|• [🤗 Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai/Yi-34B-200K) • [🤖 ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/models/01ai/Yi-34B-200K/summary)
- 200k is roughly equivalent to 400,000 Chinese characters.
### Other info
- For chat and base models:
- 6B series models are suitable for personal and academic use.
- 34B series models suitable for personal, academic, and commercial (particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises) purposes. It's a cost-effective solution that's affordable and equipped with emergent ability.
- The **default context window** is **4k tokens**.
- The pretrained tokens are 3T.
- The training data are up to June 2023.
- For chat models:
- For detailed chat model limitations, see [limitations of chat model](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/README_legacy.md#limitations-of-chat-model).
## 🎉 News
🎯 2023/11/23: The chat models are open to public.
This release contains two chat models based on previously released base models, two 8-bit models quantized by GPTQ, and two 4-bit models quantized by AWQ.
- `Yi-34B-Chat`
- `Yi-34B-Chat-4bits`
- `Yi-34B-Chat-8bits`
- `Yi-6B-Chat`
- `Yi-6B-Chat-4bits`
- `Yi-6B-Chat-8bits`
You can try some of them interactively at:
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./spaces/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat)
- [Replicate](https://replicate.com/01-ai)
🔔 2023/11/23: The Yi Series Models Community License Agreement is updated to v2.1.🔥 2023/11/08: Invited test of Yi-34B chat model.
Application form:
- [English](https://cn.mikecrm.com/l91ODJf)
- [Chinese](https://cn.mikecrm.com/gnEZjiQ)
🎯 2023/11/05: The base model of Yi-6B-200K and Yi-34B-200K.
This release contains two base models with the same parameter sizes as the previous
release, except that the context window is extended to 200K.
🎯 2023/11/02: The base model of Yi-6B and Yi-34B.
The first public release contains two bilingual (English/Chinese) base models
with the parameter sizes of 6B and 34B. Both of them are trained with 4K
sequence length and can be extended to 32K during inference time.
# 🟢 How to use Yi?
- [Quick start](#quick-start)
- [Choose your path](#choose-your-parth)
- [pip](#pip)
- [llama.cpp](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/yi_llama.cpp.md)
- [Web demo](#web-demo)
- [Fine tune](#fine-tune)
- [Quantization](#quantization)
- [Deployment](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/deployment.md)
- [Learning hub](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/learning_hub.md)
## Quick start
Getting up and running with Yi models is simple with multiple choices available.
### Choose your path
Select one of the following paths to begin your journey with Yi!
![Quick start - Choose your path](./assets/img/quick_start_path.png)
#### 🎯 Deploy Yi locally
If you prefer to deploy Yi models locally,
- 🙋♀️ and you have **sufficient** resources (for example, NVIDIA A800 80GB), you can choose one of the following methods:
- [pip](#pip)
- [Docker](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/README_legacy.md#11-docker)
- [conda-lock](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/README_legacy.md#12-local-development-environment)
- 🙋♀️ and you have **limited** resources (for example, a MacBook Pro), you can use [llama.cpp](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/yi_llama.cpp.md).
#### 🎯 Not to deploy Yi locally
If you prefer not to deploy Yi models locally, you can explore Yi's capabilities using any of the following options.
##### 🙋♀️ Run Yi with APIs
If you want to explore more features of Yi, you can adopt one of these methods:
- Yi APIs (Yi official)
- [Early access has been granted](https://x.com/01AI_Yi/status/1735728934560600536?s=20) to some applicants. Stay tuned for the next round of access!
- [Yi APIs](https://replicate.com/01-ai/yi-34b-chat/api?tab=nodejs) (Replicate)
##### 🙋♀️ Run Yi in playground
If you want to chat with Yi with more customizable options (e.g., system prompt, temperature, repetition penalty, etc.), you can try one of the following options:
- [Yi-34B-Chat-Playground](https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/prompt/playground) (Yi official)
- Access is available through a whitelist. Welcome to apply (fill out a form in [English](https://cn.mikecrm.com/l91ODJf) or [Chinese](https://cn.mikecrm.com/gnEZjiQ)).
- [Yi-34B-Chat-Playground](https://replicate.com/01-ai/yi-34b-chat) (Replicate)
##### 🙋♀️ Chat with Yi
If you want to chat with Yi, you can use one of these online services, which offer a similar user experience:
- [Yi-34B-Chat](https://huggingface.co./spaces/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat) (Yi official on Hugging Face)
- No registration is required.
- [Yi-34B-Chat](https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/) (Yi official beta)
- Access is available through a whitelist. Welcome to apply (fill out a form in [English](https://cn.mikecrm.com/l91ODJf) or [Chinese](https://cn.mikecrm.com/gnEZjiQ)).
### pip
This tutorial guides you through every step of running Yi (Yi-34B-Chat) locally and then performing inference.
#### Step 0: Prerequistes
- This tutorial assumes you are running the **Yi-34B-Chat** with an **A800 (80G)** GPU.
- For detailed deployment requirements to run Yi models, see [hardware requirements]( https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/docs/deployment.md).
- Make sure Python 3.10 or later version is installed.
#### Step 1: Prepare your environment
To set up the environment and install the required packages, execute the following command.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/01-ai/Yi.git
cd yi
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
#### Step 2: Download the Yi model
You can download the weights and tokenizer of Yi models from the following sources:
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./01-ai)
- [ModelScope](https://www.modelscope.cn/organization/01ai/)
- [WiseModel](https://wisemodel.cn/organization/01.AI)
#### Step 3: Perform inference
You can perform inference with Yi chat or base models as below.
##### Perform inference with Yi chat model
1. Create a file named `quick_start.py` and copy the following content to it.
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_path = ''
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path, use_fast=False)
# Since transformers 4.35.0, the GPT-Q/AWQ model can be loaded using AutoModelForCausalLM.
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_path,
device_map="auto",
torch_dtype='auto'
).eval()
# Prompt content: "hi"
messages = [
{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}
]
input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(conversation=messages, tokenize=True, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors='pt')
output_ids = model.generate(input_ids.to('cuda'))
response = tokenizer.decode(output_ids[0][input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)
# Model response: "Hello! How can I assist you today?"
print(response)
```
2. Run `quick_start.py`.
```bash
python quick_start.py
```
Then you can see an output similar to the one below. 🥳
```bash
Hello! How can I assist you today?
```
##### Perform inference with Yi base model
The steps are similar to [Run Yi chat model](#run-yi-chat-model).
You can use the existing file [`text_generation.py`](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/tree/main/demo).
```bash
python demo/text_generation.py --model
```
Then you can see an output similar to the one below. 🥳
Output
**Prompt**: Let me tell you an interesting story about cat Tom and mouse Jerry,
**Generation**: Let me tell you an interesting story about cat Tom and mouse Jerry, which happened in my childhood. My father had a big house with two cats living inside it to kill mice. One day when I was playing at home alone, I found one of the tomcats lying on his back near our kitchen door, looking very much like he wanted something from us but couldn’t get up because there were too many people around him! He kept trying for several minutes before finally giving up...
### Run Yi with llama.cpp
If you have limited resources, you can try [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp) or [ollama.cpp](https://ollama.ai/) (especially for Chinese users) to run Yi models in a few minutes locally.
For a step-by-step tutorial,, see [Run Yi with llama.cpp](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/edit/main/docs/yi_llama.cpp.md).
### Web demo
You can build a web UI demo for Yi **chat** models (note that Yi base models are not supported in this senario).
[Step 1: Prepare your environment](#step-1-prepare-your-environment).
[Step 2: Download the Yi model](#step-2-download-the-yi-model).
Step 3. To start a web service locally, run the following command.
```bash
python demo/web_demo.py --checkpoint-path
```
You can access the web UI by entering the address provided in the console into your browser.
![Quick start - web demo](./assets/img/yi_34b_chat_web_demo.gif)
### Finetuning
```bash
bash finetune/scripts/run_sft_Yi_6b.sh
```
Once finished, you can compare the finetuned model and the base model with the following command:
```bash
bash finetune/scripts/run_eval.sh
```
For advanced usage (like fine-tuning based on your custom data), see [fine-tune code for Yi 6B and 34B](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/tree/main/finetune).
### Quantization
#### GPT-Q
```bash
python quantization/gptq/quant_autogptq.py \
--model /base_model \
--output_dir /quantized_model \
--trust_remote_code
```
Once finished, you can then evaluate the resulting model as follows:
```bash
python quantization/gptq/eval_quantized_model.py \
--model /quantized_model \
--trust_remote_code
```
For a more detailed explanation, please read the [doc](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/tree/main/quantization/gptq)
#### AWQ
```bash
python quantization/awq/quant_autoawq.py \
--model /base_model \
--output_dir /quantized_model \
--trust_remote_code
```
Once finished, you can then evaluate the resulting model as follows:
```bash
python quantization/awq/eval_quantized_model.py \
--model /quantized_model \
--trust_remote_code
```
For detailed explanations, see [AWQ quantization](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/tree/main/quantization/awq).
# 🟢 Why Yi?
- [🌎 Ecosystem](#-ecosystem)
- [💦 Upstream](#-upstream)
- [🌊 Downstream](#-downstream)
- [🔗 Serving](#-serving)
- [⚙️ Quantitation](#️-quantitation)
- [🛠️ Fine-tuning](#️-fine-tuning)
- [API](#api)
- [📌 Benchmarks](#-benchmarks)
- [📊 Base model performance](#-base-model-performance)
- [📊 Chat model performance](#-chat-model-performance)
- [📊 Quantized chat model performance](#-quantized-chat-model-performance)
## 🌎 Ecosystem
Yi has a comprehensive ecosystem, offering a range of tools, services, and models to enrich your experiences and maximize productivity.
- [💦 Upstream](#-upstream)
- [🌊 Downstream](#-downstream)
- [🔗 Serving](#-serving)
- [⚙️ Quantitation](#️-quantitation)
- [🛠️ Fine-tuning](#️-fine-tuning)
- [API](#api)
### 💦 Upstream
The Yi series models follow the same model architecture as LLaMA. By choosing Yi, you can leverage existing tools, libraries, and resources within the LLaMA ecosystem, eliminating the need to create new tools and enhancing development efficiency.
For example, the Yi series models are saved in the format of the LLaMA model. You can directly use `LLaMAForCausalLM` and `LLaMATokenizer` to load the model. For more information, see [Use the chat model](#31-use-the-chat-model).
```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("01-ai/Yi-34b", use_fast=False)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("01-ai/Yi-34b", device_map="auto")
```
### 🌊 Downstream
> 💡 Tip
>
> - Feel free to create a PR and share the fantastic work you've built using the Yi series models.
>
> - To help others quickly understand your work, it is recommended to use the format of `: + `.
#### 🔗 Serving
If you want to get up with Yi in a few minutes, you can use the following services built upon Yi.
- Yi-34B-Chat: you can chat with Yi using one of the following platforms:
- [Yi-34B-Chat | Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co./spaces/01-ai/Yi-34B-Chat)
- [Yi-34B-Chat | Yi Platform](https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/): **Note** that currently it's available through a whitelist. Welcome to apply (fill out a form in [English](https://cn.mikecrm.com/l91ODJf) or [Chinese](https://cn.mikecrm.com/gnEZjiQ)) and experience it firsthand!
- [Yi-6B-Chat (Replicate)](https://replicate.com/01-ai): you can use this model with more options by setting additional parameters and calling APIs.
- [ScaleLLM](https://github.com/vectorch-ai/ScaleLLM#supported-models): you can use this service to run Yi models locally with added flexibility and customization.
#### ⚙️ Quantitation
If you have limited computational capabilities, you can use Yi's quantized models as follows.
These quantized models have reduced precision but offer increased efficiency, such as faster inference speed and smaller RAM usage.
- [TheBloke/Yi-34B-GPTQ](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/Yi-34B-GPTQ)
- [TheBloke/Yi-34B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/Yi-34B-GGUF)
- [TheBloke/Yi-34B-AWQ](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/Yi-34B-AWQ)
#### 🛠️ Fine-tuning
If you're seeking to explore the diverse capabilities within Yi's thriving family, you can delve into Yi's fine-tuned models as below.
- [TheBloke Models](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke): this site hosts numerous fine-tuned models derived from various LLMs including Yi.
This is not an exhaustive list for Yi, but to name a few sorted on downloads:
- [TheBloke/dolphin-2_2-yi-34b-AWQ](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/dolphin-2_2-yi-34b-AWQ)
- [TheBloke/Yi-34B-Chat-AWQ](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/Yi-34B-Chat-AWQ)
- [TheBloke/Yi-34B-Chat-GPTQ](https://huggingface.co./TheBloke/Yi-34B-Chat-GPTQ)
- [SUSTech/SUS-Chat-34B](https://huggingface.co./SUSTech/SUS-Chat-34B): this model ranked first among all models below 70B and outperformed the twice larger deepseek-llm-67b-chat. You can check the result on the [Open LLM Leaderboard](https://huggingface.co./spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard).
- [OrionStarAI/OrionStar-Yi-34B-Chat-Llama](https://huggingface.co./OrionStarAI/OrionStar-Yi-34B-Chat-Llama): this model excelled beyond other models (such as GPT-4, Qwen-14B-Chat, Baichuan2-13B-Chat) in C-Eval and CMMLU evaluations on the [OpenCompass LLM Leaderboard](https://opencompass.org.cn/leaderboard-llm).
- [NousResearch/Nous-Capybara-34B](https://huggingface.co./NousResearch/Nous-Capybara-34B): this model is trained with 200K context length and 3 epochs on the Capybara dataset.
#### API
- [amazing-openai-api](https://github.com/soulteary/amazing-openai-api): this tool converts Yi model APIs into the OpenAI API format out of the box.
- [LlamaEdge](https://www.secondstate.io/articles/yi-34b/#create-an-openai-compatible-api-service-for-the-yi-34b-chat-model): this tool builds an OpenAI-compatible API server for Yi-34B-Chat using a portable Wasm (WebAssembly) file, powered by Rust.
# 🟢 Misc.
### Acknowledgments
A heartfelt thank you to each of you who have made contributions to the Yi community! You have helped Yi not just a project, but a vibrant, growing home for innovation.
[//]: contributor-faces
[//]: contributor-faces
### 📡 Disclaimer
We use data compliance checking algorithms during the training process, to
ensure the compliance of the trained model to the best of our ability. Due to
complex data and the diversity of language model usage scenarios, we cannot
guarantee that the model will generate correct, and reasonable output in all
scenarios. Please be aware that there is still a risk of the model producing
problematic outputs. We will not be responsible for any risks and issues
resulting from misuse, misguidance, illegal usage, and related misinformation,
as well as any associated data security concerns.
### 🪪 License
The source code in this repo is licensed under the [Apache 2.0
license](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/LICENSE). The Yi series models
are fully open for academic research and free commercial usage with permission
via applications. All usage must adhere to the [Yi Series Models Community License Agreement 2.1](https://github.com/01-ai/Yi/blob/main/MODEL_LICENSE_AGREEMENT.txt).
For free commercial use, you only need to send an email to [get official commercial permission](https://www.lingyiwanwu.com/yi-license).