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@@ -120,6 +120,47 @@ We provide generations for the models described in the paper for both OA and Vic
 Can you distinguish ChatGPT from Guanaco? Give it a try! 
 You can access [the model response Colab here](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1kK6xasHiav9nhiRUJjPMZb4fAED4qRHb?usp=sharing) comparing ChatGPT and Guanaco 65B on Vicuna prompts.
 
+## Checkpoint export (`export_hf_checkpoint.py`)
+
+These files contain scripts that merge the LoRA weights back into the base model
+for export to Hugging Face format .
+- Example:
+```bash
+$cd /mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora
+$export BASE_MODEL=huggyllama/llama-30b 
+$export LORA_MODEL=/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/checkpoint-1500/adapter_model
+$export HF_CHECKPOINT=/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf
+
+$python export_hf_checkpoint.py
+CUDA SETUP: CUDA runtime path found: /home/hzx/.conda/envs/qlora/lib/libcudart.so.11.0
+CUDA SETUP: Highest compute capability among GPUs detected: 8.9
+CUDA SETUP: Detected CUDA version 118
+CUDA SETUP: Loading binary /home/hzx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bitsandbytes/libbitsandbytes_cuda118.so...
+Loading checkpoint shards: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████| 7/7 [00:02<00:00,  3.28it/s]total 63533373
+
+
+```
+- If you need to run it directly, you need to copy the three files special_tokens_map.json, tokenizer.model and tokenizer_config.json from the checkpoint-xxxx directory to the /mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf directory to run
+
+- Final Results
+```bash
+$ ls -lrt /mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf
+total 63533869
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx        727 Jun  4 17:26 tokenizer_config.json
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx         96 Jun  4 17:26 special_tokens_map.json
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx     499723 Jun  4 17:26 tokenizer.model
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx        607 Jun  5 22:45 config.json
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx        137 Jun  5 22:45 generation_config.json
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9818324627 Jun  5 22:45 pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9869497721 Jun  5 22:46 pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9896734097 Jun  5 22:46 pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9719524707 Jun  5 22:46 pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9869470481 Jun  5 22:46 pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 9869470445 Jun  5 22:47 pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx 6015086981 Jun  5 22:47 pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.bin
+-rwxrwxrwx 1 hzx hzx      50084 Jun  5 22:47 pytorch_model.bin.index.json
+```
+
 ## Evaluation
 We include scripts adapted from the FastChat repo to automatically evaluate model generations using GPT-4. We include script for comparisons relative to ChatGPT with scores out of 10 as well as "pairwise comparisons" with three class labeling (win, loose, or tie). These are found in the `eval` folder.
 
diff --git a/export_hf_checkpoint.py b/export_hf_checkpoint.py
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@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import os
+import torch
+from peft import PeftModel
+from transformers import LlamaForCausalLM, LlamaTokenizer
+'''
+Example:
+    cd /mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora
+    export BASE_MODEL=/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/scripts/llama-30b 
+    export LORA_MODEL=/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/checkpoint-1500/adapter_model
+    export HF_CHECKPOINT=/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf
+    python export_hf_checkpoint.py
+    ls -lrt /mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf
+'''
+BASE_MODEL = os.environ.get("BASE_MODEL", "huggyllama/llama-7b")
+LORA_MODEL = os.environ.get("LORA_MODEL", "/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/checkpoint-1500/adapter_model")
+HF_CHECKPOINT = os.environ.get("HF_CHECKPOINT", "/mnt/e/PycharmProjects/qlora/output/guanaco-33b/hf")
+DEVICE = os.environ.get("DEVICE", "cpu")
+
+assert (
+    BASE_MODEL
+), "Please specify a value for BASE_MODEL environment variable, e.g. `export BASE_MODEL=huggyllama/llama-7b`"  # noqa: E501
+
+tokenizer = LlamaTokenizer.from_pretrained(BASE_MODEL)
+
+base_model = LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    BASE_MODEL,
+    load_in_8bit=False,
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+    device_map={"": DEVICE},
+)
+
+first_weight = base_model.model.layers[0].self_attn.q_proj.weight
+first_weight_old = first_weight.clone()
+
+lora_model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(
+    base_model,
+    LORA_MODEL,
+    device_map={"": DEVICE},
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+)
+
+lora_weight = lora_model.base_model.model.model.layers[0].self_attn.q_proj.weight
+
+assert torch.allclose(first_weight_old, first_weight)
+
+lora_model = lora_model.merge_and_unload()
+
+lora_model.train(False)
+
+assert not torch.allclose(first_weight_old, first_weight)
+
+lora_model_sd = lora_model.state_dict()
+
+deloreanized_sd = {
+    k.replace("base_model.model.", ""): v
+    for k, v in lora_model_sd.items()
+    if "lora" not in k
+}
+
+LlamaForCausalLM.save_pretrained(
+    base_model, HF_CHECKPOINT, state_dict=deloreanized_sd, max_shard_size="9900MB"
+)
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