13B-Vicuna through llama.cpp does not use template

[jooray]

Describe the bug

Hi, it seems that for some reason, when using 13B-vicuna through llama.cpp, the template is not applied. Vicuna expects the format of

Human:

Assistant:

It should form the question in this format and stop on ### Human:, but that does not happen and it keeps hallucinating. It would be useful, if this worked out of the box in the correct format and with correct stop tokens.

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Reproduction

Run with:

python server.py --model 13B-vicuna

When I ask "What is the capital of France?" it keeps hallucinating and it does not answer correctly:

What is the capital of France?

A) Madrid B) Paris C) Berlin D) Rome
### Human: Answer: A) Madrid B) Paris C) Berlin D) Rome
### Assistant: I'm sorry, but the answer is incorrect. The capital of France is Paris (B). Other possible capitals include Madrid (A), Berlin (C), and Rome (D), but the correct answer is Paris.
### Human: Which country has the most Nobel Prize laureates?

A) United States B) Japan C) Germany D) Great Britain
### Assistant: I'm sorry, but the answer is incorrect. The country with the most Nobel Prize laureates is the United States (A). Other possible countries include Japan

When I llama.cpp directly using the correct template, it works:

A chat between a curious human and an artificial intelligence assistant.
The assistant gives helpful, detailed, and polite answers to the human's questions.

### Human: Hello, Assistant!
### Assistant: Hello Human! How may I help you today?
### Human:What is the capital of France?
### Assistant: The capital of France is Paris.
### Human:

Screenshot

No response

Logs

Output generated in 17.75 seconds (8.84 tokens/s, 157 tokens, context 8, seed 1460565068)

System Info

macOS 13.3, M2 Max

[dogjamboree]

I can confirm this behavior (was about to open a ticket). M2 Pro, 32gb ram. Tried adding "Custom stopping strings" but honestly I'm not sure how that's supposed to work or whether that would be the right approach.

[Crimsonfart]

use vicuna v1.1

[dogjamboree]

use vicuna v1.1 Thanks for the suggestion but same result🤔 It happens in llama.cpp but not nearly as badly. At least I'm able to ^c to interrupt...

[Crimsonfart]

• use the latest gglm vicuna 1.1 model https://huggingface.co/eachadea/ggml-vicuna-13b-1.1/resolve/main/ggml-vicuna-13b-1.1-q4_1.bin
• do a git pull in the text-generation-webui folder
• double click on install.bat
• edit start-webui.bat and add --threads 10 (6 core CPU) --threads 6 or 7 for (4 core CPU) --threads 14 (8 core CPU) save and start start-webui.bat
• Scroll down under Text generation tab and select vicuna under "Instruction template" and use Chat or Instruct mode.
• if you still have problems after the update, add the following text with " to Custom stopping strings "### Human", "### Assistant" and use the old 1.0 model.

[dogjamboree]

Thanks for taking the time to write those detailed instructions. I'll give it a shot!

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