• LLamaSharp - .NET Binding for llama.cpp
• • Documentation
  • Installation
  • • Tips for choosing a version
    • Mapping from LLamaSharp to llama.cpp
  • FAQ
  • Quick Start
  • • • Model Inference and Chat Session
      • Quantization
      • Web API
  • Console Demo
  • How to Get a Model
  • Roadmap
  • Contributing
  • Contact us
  • License

LLamaSharp - .NET Binding for llama.cpp

The C#/.NET binding of llama.cpp. It provides higher-level APIs to inference the LLaMA Models and deploy it on local device with C#/.NET. It works on
both Windows, Linux and MAC without requirment for compiling llama.cpp yourself. Even without GPU or not enought GPU memory, you can still apply LLaMA models well with this repo. 🤗

Furthermore, it provides integrations with other projects such as semantic-kernel, kernel-memory and BotSharp to provide higher-level applications.

Documentation

• Quick start
• Tricks for FAQ
• Full documentation
• API reference
• Examples

Installation

Firstly, search LLamaSharp in nuget package manager and install it.

PM> Install-Package LLamaSharp

Then, search and install one of the following backends:

LLamaSharp.Backend.Cpu  # cpu for windows, linux and mac (mac metal is also supported)
LLamaSharp.Backend.Cuda11  # cuda11 for windows and linux
LLamaSharp.Backend.Cuda12  # cuda12 for windows and linux
LLamaSharp.Backend.MacMetal  # special for using mac metal

If you would like to use it with microsoft semantic-kernel, please search and install the following package:

LLamaSharp.semantic-kernel

Tips for choosing a version

In general, there may be some break changes between two minor releases, for example 0.5.1 and 0.6.0. On the contrary, we don't introduce API break changes in patch release. Therefore it's recommended to keep the highest patch version of a minor release. For example, keep 0.5.6 instead of 0.5.3.

Mapping from LLamaSharp to llama.cpp

Here's the mapping of them and corresponding model samples provided by LLamaSharp. If you're not sure which model is available for a version, please try our sample model.

The llama.cpp commit id will help if you want to compile a DLL yourself.

LLamaSharp.Backend	LLamaSharp	Verified Model Resources	llama.cpp commit id
-	v0.2.0	This version is not recommended to use.	-
-	v0.2.1	WizardLM, Vicuna (filenames with "old")	-
v0.2.2	v0.2.2, v0.2.3	WizardLM, Vicuna (filenames without "old")	63d2046
v0.3.0, v0.3.1	v0.3.0, v0.4.0	LLamaSharpSamples v0.3.0, WizardLM	7e4ea5b
v0.4.1-preview (cpu only)	v0.4.1-preview	Open llama 3b, Open Buddy	aacdbd4
v0.4.2-preview (cpu,cuda11)	v0.4.2-preview	Llama2 7b GGML	3323112
v0.5.1	v0.5.1	Llama2 7b GGUF	6b73ef1
v0.6.0	v0.6.0		cb33f43
v0.7.0	v0.7.0		207b519

Many hands make light work. If you have found any other model resource that could work for a version, we'll appreciate it for opening an PR about it! 😊

We publish the backend with cpu, cuda11 and cuda12 because they are the most popular ones. If none of them matches, please compile the llama.cpp
from source and put the libllama under your project's output path (guide).

FAQ

1. GPU out of memory: Please try setting n_gpu_layers to a smaller number.
2. Unsupported model: llama.cpp is under quick development and often has break changes. Please check the release date of the model and find a suitable version of LLamaSharp to install, or use the model we provide on huggingface.

Quick Start

Model Inference and Chat Session

LLamaSharp provides two ways to run inference: LLamaExecutor and ChatSession. The chat session is a higher-level wrapping of the executor and the model. Here's a simple example to use chat session.

using LLama.Common;
using LLama;

string modelPath = "<Your model path>"; // change it to your own model path
var prompt = "Transcript of a dialog, where the User interacts with an Assistant named Bob. Bob is helpful, kind, honest, good at writing, and never fails to answer the User's requests immediately and with precision.\r\n\r\nUser: Hello, Bob.\r\nBob: Hello. How may I help you today?\r\nUser: Please tell me the largest city in Europe.\r\nBob: Sure. The largest city in Europe is Moscow, the capital of Russia.\r\nUser:"; // use the "chat-with-bob" prompt here.

// Load a model
var parameters = new ModelParams(modelPath)
{
    ContextSize = 1024,
    Seed = 1337,
    GpuLayerCount = 5
};
using var model = LLamaWeights.LoadFromFile(parameters);

// Initialize a chat session
using var context = model.CreateContext(parameters);
var ex = new InteractiveExecutor(context);
ChatSession session = new ChatSession(ex);

// show the prompt
Console.WriteLine();
Console.Write(prompt);

// run the inference in a loop to chat with LLM
while (prompt != "stop")
{
    foreach (var text in session.Chat(prompt, new InferenceParams() { Temperature = 0.6f, AntiPrompts = new List<string> { "User:" } }))
    {
        Console.Write(text);
    }
    prompt = Console.ReadLine();
}

// save the session
session.SaveSession("SavedSessionPath");

Quantization

The following example shows how to quantize the model. With LLamaSharp you needn't to compile c++ project and run scripts to quantize the model, instead, just run it in C#.

string srcFilename = "<Your source path>";
string dstFilename = "<Your destination path>";
string ftype = "q4_0";
if(Quantizer.Quantize(srcFileName, dstFilename, ftype))
{
    Console.WriteLine("Quantization succeed!");
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("Quantization failed!");
}

For more usages, please refer to Examples.

Web API

We provide the integration of ASP.NET core and a web app demo. Please clone the repo to have a try.

Since we are in short of hands, if you're familiar with ASP.NET core, we'll appreciate it if you would like to help upgrading the Web API integration.

Console Demo

How to Get a Model

Model in format gguf is valid for LLamaSharp (and ggml before v0.5.1). One option is to search LLama and gguf in huggingface to find a model.

Another choice is generate gguf format file yourself with a pytorch weight (or any other), pleae refer to convert.py and convert-llama-ggml-to-gguf.py to get gguf file though a ggml transform.

Roadmap

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✅: completed. ⚠️: outdated for latest release but will be updated. 🔳: not completed

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✅ LLaMa model inference

✅ Embeddings generation, tokenization and detokenization

✅ Chat session

✅ Quantization

✅ Grammar

✅ State saving and loading

⚠️ BotSharp Integration

✅ ASP.NET core Integration

✅ Semantic-kernel Integration

🔳 Fine-tune

⚠️ Local document search (enabled by kernel-memory now)

🔳 MAUI Integration

Contributing

Any contribution is welcomed! Please read the contributing guide. You can do one of the followings to help us make LLamaSharp better:

• Append a model link that is available for a version. (This is very important!)
• Star and share LLamaSharp to let others know it.
• Add a feature or fix a BUG.
• Help to develop Web API and UI integration.
• Just start an issue about the problem you met!

Contact us

Join our chat on Discord.

Join QQ group

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.