Ollama models.
Installation
Setup
First, follow these instructions to set up and run a local Ollama instance:- Download and install Ollama onto the available supported platforms (including Windows Subsystem for Linux aka WSL, macOS, and Linux)
- macOS users can install via Homebrew with
brew install ollamaand start withbrew services start ollama
- macOS users can install via Homebrew with
- Fetch available LLM model via
ollama pull <name-of-model>- View a list of available models via the model library
- e.g.,
ollama pull llama3
- This will download the default tagged version of the model. Typically, the default points to the latest, smallest sized-parameter model.
On Mac, the models will be download to~/.ollama/modelsOn Linux (or WSL), the models will be stored at/usr/share/ollama/.ollama/models
- Specify the exact version of the model of interest as such
ollama pull vicuna:13b-v1.5-16k-q4_0(View the various tags for theVicunamodel in this instance) - To view all pulled models, use
ollama list - To chat directly with a model from the command line, use
ollama run <name-of-model> - View the Ollama documentation for more commands. You can run
ollama helpin the terminal to see available commands.
Usage
Multi-modal
Ollama has support for multi-modal LLMs, such as bakllava and llava. ollama pull bakllava Be sure to update Ollama so that you have the most recent version to support multi-modal.API reference
For detailed documentation of allChatOllama features and configurations head to the API reference.
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