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openchat_v2_w

LLMs openchat Text gen 1 build Its own licence terms 111 dl/mo

openchat_v2_w is an open-weight language model from openchat. openchat_v2_w (BF16) weighs 26.0 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB.

  • OpenChat v2-w is a text-generation model developed by openchat, based on LLaMA-13B and trained using weighted behavior cloning.
  • It supports English with a context length of 2048 tokens and is released under an other licence.
  • The model card reports a 50.9% win-rate over ChatGPT on MT-bench and an 87.1% win-rate over text-davinci-003 on AlpacaEval.

Summary of the openchat/openchat_v2_w model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byopenchat
Released2023-07-07
VRAM26.0 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for openchat_v2_w (BF16)

26.0 GBweights, file size
819 MBcache per 1K tokens
659 MBruntime overhead, at least
2,048 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
2K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4090 24 GB
4 smaller cards
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RTX 5090 32 GB2all 2K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB10all 2K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB30all 2K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB28all 2K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB38all 2K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified46all 2K107 GB
H200 141 GB64all 2K138 GB
B200 180 GB86all 2K176 GB
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
2all 2K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
11all 2K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
11all 2K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
20all 2K31.0 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once2K tokens each
128.4 GB
535.1 GB
840.1 GB
1653.5 GB
3280.4 GB
64134 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What openchat says about openchat_v2_w

Read the model card

The OpenChat v2 family is inspired by offline reinforcement learning, including conditional behavior cloning (OpenChat-v2) and weighted behavior cloning (OpenChat-v2-w).

  • OpenChat-v2-w: ~80k cleaned ShareGPT data with conditioning and weighted loss, based on LLaMA-13B with a context length of 2048.
    • Achieves 50.9% win-rate over ChatGPT on MT-bench.
    • Achieves 79.4% win-rate over ChatGPT on Vicuna-bench.
    • Achieves 87.1% win-rate over text-davinci-003 on AlpacaEval.
  • OpenChat-v2: ~80k cleaned ShareGPT data with only conditioning, based on LLaMA-13B with a context length of 2048.
    • Achieves 48.1% win-rate over ChatGPT on MT-bench.
    • Achieves 80.6% win-rate over ChatGPT on Vicuna-bench.
    • Achieves 85.0% win-rate over text-davinci-003 on AlpacaEval.

Code and Inference Server

We provide the full source code, including an inference server compatible with the "ChatCompletions" API, in the OpenChat GitHub repository.

Web UI

OpenChat also includes a web UI for a better user experience. See the GitHub repository for instructions.

Conversation Template

The conversation template involves concatenating tokens, and cannot be expressed in plain-text.

Besides base model vocabulary, an end-of-turn token `` is added.

Here is an example of single-round conversation template:

def tokenize_single_input(tokenizer, prompt):
    # OpenChat V2
    human_prefix = "User:"
    prefix    = "Assistant GPT4:"
    eot_token = ""
    bos_token = ""

    def _tokenize(text):
        return tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(tokenizer._tokenize(text))

    def _tokenize_special(special_name):
        return tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(special_name)

    return [_tokenize_special(bos_token)] + _tokenize(human_prefix) + _tokenize(prompt) + [_tokenize_special(eot_token)] + \
           _tokenize(prefix)

To explore conditional language models, you can also set prefix = "Assistant GPT3:" to mimic ChatGPT behavior (this may cause performance degradation).

Hint: In BPE, tokenize(A) + tokenize(B) does not always equals to tokenize(A + B)

Limitations

Foundation Model Limitations Despite its advanced capabilities, OpenChat is still bound by the limitations inherent in its foundation models. These limitations may impact the model's performance in areas such as:

  • Complex reasoning
  • Mathematical and arithmetic tasks
  • Programming and coding challenges

Hallucination of Non-existent Information OpenChat may sometimes generate information that does not exist or is not accurate, also known as "hallucination". Users should be aware of this possibility and verify any critical information obtained from the model.

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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