---
license: llama2
---

This model pairs with the PRETRAINED variant of amharic llama. Available here: https://huggingface.co./iocuydi/llama-2-amharic-3784m/tree/main/pretrained


It will also require Llama2 weights and this clip model: https://huggingface.co./openai/clip-vit-large-patch14-336


More information on running the model here: https://github.com/iocuydi/amharic-llama-llava

Cite: 
```
@misc{andersland2024amharic,
      title={Amharic LLaMA and LLaVA: Multimodal LLMs for Low Resource Languages}, 
      author={Michael Andersland},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2403.06354},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```