High-Speed Inference with llama.cpp and Vicuna on CPU

You don’t need a GPU for fast inference

A vicuna — Photo by Parsing Eye on Unsplash

For inference with large language models, we may think that we need a very big GPU or that it can’t run on consumer hardware. This is rarely the case.

Nowadays, we have many tricks and frameworks at our disposal, such as device mapping or QLoRa, that make inference possible at home, even for very large language …