Llama 3.1 Integration

This release accompanies the release of Llama 3.1 which included new versions of the Llama 8B and 70B models as well as the new 405B version. To get started with the new models you can find information in the official documentation or the on the HuggingFace hub. Further details can also be found in the model card and the Llama 3.1 paper. For this release we updated the documentation and made sure all components work with the new models.

• Release update by @albertodepaola @cynikolai @mreso @subramen @tryrobbo @varunfb in #603

New Features

We also added new features like FSDP + QLoRA fine-tuning and H2O algorithm for long context inference.

• Implement H2O for long context inference on summarization tasks by @Kyriection in #411
• Resume the fine-tuning process from the previous PEFT checkpoint folder by @wukaixingxp in #531
• Update hf weight conversion script to llama 3 by @dongwang218 in #551
• Adding support for FSDP+Qlora. by @HamidShojanazeri in #572

Additional Examples

Besides, we added new examples to get you up and running quickly with the Llama models

• Add Groq/Llama3 recipes (cookbook and command line examples) by @dloman118 in #553
• [WIP] Peft Finetuning Quickstart Notebook by @mreso in #558
• 4 notebooks ported from 4 DLAI agent short courses using Llama 3 by @jeffxtang in #560
• [lamini] Add lamini text2sql memory tuning tutorial by @powerjohnnyli in #573
• colab links fixed for dlai agents notebooks by @jeffxtang in #593
• Port of DLAI LlamaIndex Agent short course lessons 2-4 to use Llama 3 by @jeffxtang in #594

Codebase Refactor

We also refactored our codebase to improve discoverability of our documentation and recipes

• New structure and rename for tools, docs and quickstart folder by @pia-papanna in #575
• Add Langchain agent notebooks to 3P_Integrations by @subramen in #576
• Updates to benchmarks code by @subramen in #577
• Add README for quickstart + update to codellama url by @subramen in #578
• Updating the folder name 3p_integrations by @pia-papanna in #581
• Deleting Agents folder and adding llamaindex by @pia-papanna in #582
• Update 3p_integration README.md by @subramen in #586
• Add experimental folder to README by @subramen in #585 fix typo by @subramen in #588
• Updating chatbot folder names by @pia-papanna in #590
• Move MediaGen notebook to octoai folder by @subramen in #601

Misc improvements and bugfixes

• Fix hsdp_device_mesh=None when enable HSDP and HYBRID_SHARD by @haozhx23 in #402
• bump up version by @mreso in #529
• Fix config file links for FMBench, update business summary chart. by @aarora79 in #532
• fixed alpaca dataset evalset length and make sure len(eval_loader)>0 by @wukaixingxp in #540
• Fix typo in Getting_to_know_Llama.ipynb by @jenyckee in #545
• replace groq llama 2 with replicate by @jeffxtang in #546
• Remove pkg_resources.packaging by @mreso in #547
• Update langgraph tool calling agent, simplify examples and README by @rlancemartin in #549
• Minor update to README by @rlancemartin in #555
• Add ToolMessage import by @rlancemartin in #559
• Make quickstart finetuning notebook ready for T4 by @mreso in #562
• bug fix by @jarvisDang in #570
• changed --pure_bf16 to --fsdp_config.pure_bf16 and corrected "examples/" path by @wukaixingxp in #587
• Update links in README.md by @subramen in #589
• Fix broken image link by @subramen in #597
• Fix relative links to images by @subramen in #596
• Remove max_length from tokenization by @mreso in #604
• Update transformers requirements by @mreso in #605
• Address feedback not possible before launch in LG3 recipe and dataset file by @tryrobbo in #606

New Contributors

• @jenyckee made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/545
• @dloman118 made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/553
• @Kyriection made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/411
• @haozhx23 made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/402
• @powerjohnnyli made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/573
• @jarvisDang made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/570
• @pia-papanna made their first contribution in https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/pull/575

Full Changelog: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-recipes/compare/v0.0.2...v0.0.3

We would like to thank all who contributed to this release and are looking forward to future contributions!