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diff --git a/litellm/__pycache__/utils.cpython-311.pyc b/litellm/__pycache__/utils.cpython-311.pyc
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diff --git a/litellm/llms/prompt_templates/factory.py b/litellm/llms/prompt_templates/factory.py
index a7e041bf56..f824c8ca3c 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/prompt_templates/factory.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/prompt_templates/factory.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ def default_pt(messages):
     return " ".join(message["content"] for message in messages)
 
 # Llama2 prompt template
+llama_2_special_tokens = ["<s>", "</s>"]
 def llama_2_chat_pt(messages):
     prompt = custom_prompt(
         role_dict={
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
index 8465658c43..535a0564f0 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
@@ -111,8 +111,8 @@ def test_completion_with_litellm_call_id():
 #     try:
 #         user_message = "write some code to find the sum of two numbers"
 #         messages = [{ "content": user_message,"role": "user"}]
-#         api_base = "https://ecd4sb5n09bo4ei2.us-east-1.aws.endpoints.huggingface.cloud"
-#         response = completion(model="togethercomputer/LLaMA-2-7B-32K", messages=messages, custom_llm_provider="huggingface", api_base=api_base, logger_fn=logger_fn)
+#         api_base = "https://a8l9e3ucxinyl3oj.us-east-1.aws.endpoints.huggingface.cloud"
+#         response = completion(model="huggingface/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf", messages=messages, api_base=api_base, logger_fn=logger_fn)
 #         # Add any assertions here to check the response
 #         print(response)
 #     except Exception as e:
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_streaming.py b/litellm/tests/test_streaming.py
index 10d7214780..10f772c250 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_streaming.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_streaming.py
@@ -214,6 +214,32 @@ def test_completion_cohere_stream():
     except Exception as e:
         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
 
+# def test_completion_hf_stream():
+#     try:
+#         messages = [
+#             {
+#                 "content": "Hello! How are you today?",
+#                 "role": "user"
+#             },
+#         ]
+#         response = completion(
+#             model="huggingface/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf", messages=messages, api_base="https://a8l9e3ucxinyl3oj.us-east-1.aws.endpoints.huggingface.cloud", stream=True, max_tokens=1000
+#         )
+#         complete_response = ""
+#         # Add any assertions here to check the response
+#         for idx, chunk in enumerate(response):
+#             chunk, finished = streaming_format_tests(idx, chunk)
+#             if finished:
+#                 break
+#             complete_response += chunk
+#         if complete_response.strip() == "": 
+#             raise Exception("Empty response received")
+#         print(f"completion_response: {complete_response}")
+#     except Exception as e:
+#         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+
+# test_completion_hf_stream()
+
 def test_completion_claude_stream():
     try:
         messages = [
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index bd91583e1a..648bb63e7f 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ from .exceptions import (
 )
 from typing import cast, List, Dict, Union, Optional
 from .caching import Cache
-
+from .llms.prompt_templates.factory import llama_2_special_tokens
 
 ####### ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ####################
 dotenv.load_dotenv()  # Loading env variables using dotenv
@@ -2518,7 +2518,11 @@ class CustomStreamWrapper:
         if chunk.startswith("data:"):
             data_json = json.loads(chunk[5:])
             if "token" in data_json and "text" in data_json["token"]:
-                return data_json["token"]["text"]
+                text = data_json["token"]["text"]
+                if "meta-llama/Llama-2" in self.model: #clean eos tokens like </s> from the returned output text
+                    if any(token in text for token in llama_2_special_tokens):
+                        text = text.replace("<s>", "").replace("</s>", "")
+                return text
             else:
                 return ""
         return ""
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5fbe4b0e74..6df802fb33 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "litellm"
-version = "0.1.696"
+version = "0.1.697"
 description = "Library to easily interface with LLM API providers"
 authors = ["BerriAI"]
 license = "MIT License"