llama-for-kobold

A self contained distributable from Concedo that exposes llama.cpp function bindings, allowing it to be used via a simulated Kobold API endpoint.

Considerations

• Don't want to use pybind11 due to dependencies on MSVCC
• ZERO or MINIMAL changes as possible to main.cpp - do not move their function declarations elsewhere!
• Leave main.cpp UNTOUCHED, We want to be able to update the repo and pull any changes automatically.
• No dynamic memory allocation! Setup structs with FIXED (known) shapes and sizes for ALL output fields. Python will ALWAYS provide the memory, we just write to it.
• No external libraries or dependencies. That means no Flask, Pybind and whatever. All You Need Is Python.

Usage

• Windows binaries are provided in the form of llamacpp.dll but if you feel worried go ahead and rebuild it yourself.
• Weights are not included, you can use the llama.cpp quantize.exe to generate them from your official weight files (or download them from...places).
• To run, simply clone the repo and run llama_for_kobold.py [ggml_quant_model.bin] [port], and then connect with Kobold or Kobold Lite.
• By default, you can connect to http://localhost:5001 (you can also use https://lite.koboldai.net/?local=1&port=5001).

License

• The original GGML library and llama.cpp by ggerganov are licensed under the MIT License
• However, Kobold Lite is licensed under the AGPL v3.0 License
• The provided python ctypes bindings in llamacpp.dll are also under the AGPL v3.0 License

Notes

• There is a fundamental flaw with llama.cpp, which causes generation delay to scale linearly with original prompt length. If you care, please contribute to this discussion which, if resolved, will actually make this viable.