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 The process to modify the model occurs at the root level - source files level. The model can quanted as a GGUF, EXL2, AWQ etc etc.
 
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+<h2>Special Thanks:</h2>
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+Special thanks to all the following, and many more...
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+All the model makers, fine tuners, mergers, and tweakers:
+- Provides the raw "DNA" for almost all my models.
+- Sources of model(s) can be found on the repo pages, especially the "source" repos with link(s) to the model creator(s).
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+Huggingface [ https://huggingface.co ] :
+- The place to store, merge, and tune models endlessly.
+- THE reason we have an open source community.
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+LlamaCPP [ https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp ] :
+- The ability to compress and run models on GPU(s), CPU(s) and almost all devices.
+- Imatrix, Quantization, and other tools to tune the quants and the models.
+- Llama-Server : A cli based direct interface to run GGUF models.
+- The only tool I use to quant models.
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+Quant-Masters: Team Mradermacher, Bartowski, and many others:
+- Quant models day and night for us all to use.
+- They are the lifeblood of open source access.
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+MergeKit [ https://github.com/arcee-ai/mergekit ] :
+- The universal online/offline tool to merge models together and forge something new.
+- Over 20 methods to almost instantly merge model, pull them apart and put them together again.
+- The tool I have used to create over 1500 models.
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+Lmstudio [ https://lmstudio.ai/ ] :
+- The go to tool to test and run models in GGUF format.
+- The Tool I use to test/refine and evaluate new models.
+- LMStudio forum on discord; endless info and community for open source.
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+Text Generation Webui // KolboldCPP // SillyTavern:
+- Excellent tools to run GGUF models with - [  https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ] [ https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp ] .
+- Sillytavern [ https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern ] can be used with LMSTudio [ https://lmstudio.ai/ ] , TextGen [ https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ], Kolboldcpp [ https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp ], Llama-Server [part of LLAMAcpp] as a off the scale front end control system and interface to work with models.