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We just released bitsandbytes==0.43.0 π¦ , with these significant new additions:
β£ π« FSDP+QLoRA support (alpha release)
β¦ now anyone with 2 powerful gaming GPUs can fine-tune 70B param models at home!
β¦ in collab with Jeremy Howard + team @ answer.ai
β¦ answer.ai blogpost: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html
β¦ example repo: https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/fsdp_qlora/
β£ πβ Official Windows support
β¦ now via simple
β£ π Huge docs update:
β¦ https://huggingface.co/docs/bitsandbytes/main
β¦ Be sure to check out the optimizers and the API docs
β¦ ... even more upcoming ...
Under the hood there we have many other improvements, due to extensive maintenance activity, community contributions by super active + knowledgable volunteers β¨ π and the official sponsorship by Hugging Face that makes all this possible π€ β€οΈ π
We would greatly appreciate any further community contributions, be it to help with refactorings, exterminating flaky tests, writing doc-strings, tutorials, new features. Don't be shy, just contact us and we see where this leads us:
https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/discussions
Have a great weekend everyone!
β£ π« FSDP+QLoRA support (alpha release)
β¦ now anyone with 2 powerful gaming GPUs can fine-tune 70B param models at home!
β¦ in collab with Jeremy Howard + team @ answer.ai
β¦ answer.ai blogpost: https://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-03-06-fsdp-qlora.html
β¦ example repo: https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/fsdp_qlora/
β£ πβ Official Windows support
β¦ now via simple
pip install bitsandbytes>=0.43.0
β£ π Huge docs update:
β¦ https://huggingface.co/docs/bitsandbytes/main
β¦ Be sure to check out the optimizers and the API docs
β¦ ... even more upcoming ...
Under the hood there we have many other improvements, due to extensive maintenance activity, community contributions by super active + knowledgable volunteers β¨ π and the official sponsorship by Hugging Face that makes all this possible π€ β€οΈ π
We would greatly appreciate any further community contributions, be it to help with refactorings, exterminating flaky tests, writing doc-strings, tutorials, new features. Don't be shy, just contact us and we see where this leads us:
https://github.com/TimDettmers/bitsandbytes/discussions
Have a great weekend everyone!