Hi everyone, I’d like to share something that I’ve been working on for the past few days: https://huggingface.co/nsfwthrowitaway69/Venus-120b-v1.0
This model is the result of interleaving layers from three different models: Euryale-1.3-L2-70B, Nous-Hermes-Llama2-70b, and SynthIA-70B-v1.5, resulting in a model that it larger than any of the three used for the merge. I have branches on the repo for exl2 quants at 3.0 and 4.85 bpw, which will allow the model to run in 48GB or 80GB of vram, respectively.
I love using LLMs for RPs and ERPs and so my goal was to create something similar to Goliath, which is honestly the best roleplay model I’ve ever used. I’ve done some initial testing with it and so far the results seem encouraging. I’d love to get some feedback on this from the community! Going forward, my plan is to do more experiments with merging models together, possibly even going even larger than 120b parameters to see where the gains stop.
Try it out and let me know! I included Nous-Hermes in the merge because I’ve found it to be one of the best roleplaying models that doesn’t hallucinate too much. However, Nous-Hermes also tends to lack a bit in terms of the prose it writes, from my experience. I was hoping to get something that’s coherent most of the time and creative.