https://huggingface.co/NurtureAI/Starling-LM-11B-alpha-v1

This is Berkeley’s model: Starling-LM-7B-alpha with the size of model increased to 11B from 7B.
Special thanks to user Undi95 for their mistral passthrough explanation with cg123’s mergekit, Berkeley of course for Starling-LM-7B-alpha, and also everyone contributing to open source AI development.

Together we are strong!

The performance of this model will increase drastically as it is further fine tuned with the newly added layers.

AWQ version and GGUF version coming soon!

  • LyPreto@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I saw their 7B model closing in on gpt-4 scores in some benchmarks which is absolutely wild but also sus

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      1 year ago

      slices:
      - sources:
      - model: berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha
      layer_range: [0, 24]
      - sources:
      - model: berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha
      layer_range: [8, 32]
      merge_method: passthrough
      dtype: float16

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    1 year ago

    How do you figure out the correct config files for models. I am using LMstudio. For example, say I have this. How am I supposed to know how to distill this info for each model? Is there some sort of guide or logic to learn. Its driving me crazy.

    Prompt template: OpenChat

    GPT4 User: {prompt}<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Assistant:
    
  • perlthoughts@alien.topOPB
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    1 year ago

    I noticed a lot of responses about the mergekit configuration i used to copy layers of 7b model of mistral to 11b. Here is my config.yml for mergekit (link in post description):

    slices:
      - sources:
        - model: maywell/Synatra-7B-v0.3-RP
          layer_range: [0, 24]
      - sources:
        - model: maywell/Synatra-7B-v0.3-RP
          layer_range: [8, 32]
    merge_method: passthrough
    dtype: float16
    
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    1 year ago

    I think I found the key to avoid repetitions and long rambling answers, which this model has a tendency to do. Hopefully a further fine tune will reduce it. The key is to reduce creativity all the way down, and make the model deterministic. How do you do that?, you may ask. Easy, it is controlled by the following 3 inference parameters: temp, top_p, and top_k

    With the following default settings I often get repetitions or additional rambling information:

        "top_k": 40,
        "top_p": 0.95,
        "temp": 0.8,
    

    If I use the following values instead, to make the model deterministic, the problem seems to be gone:

        "top_k": 1,
        "top_p": 0.1,
        "temp": 0.1,
    

    Please note that if you want to use the model for story writing, maybe you get better results by dialing up the creativity.

    Here is my complete config file for LM Studio:

    {
      "name": "OpenChat",
      "inference_params": {
        "top_k": 1,
        "top_p": 0.1,
        "temp": 0.1,
        "input_prefix": "GPT4 Correct User: ",
        "input_suffix": "<|end_of_turn|>GPT4 Correct Assistant: ",
        "antiprompt": [
          "GPT4",
          "<|end_of_turn|>",
          "[End of Turn]",
          "[]"
        ],
        "pre_prompt": "Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a concise response that appropriately completes the request. Ensure all essential details are provided. Each of your statements must be unique.",
        "pre_prompt_suffix": "<|end_of_turn|>",
        "pre_prompt_prefix": "GPT4 System: "
      }
    }
    

    A few words about the above:

    • I only include necessary options to avoid overwriting user settings when loading the model or switching prompt format. If you export a config file, please make sure you then edit it manually to clean it up.
    • GPT Correct User/Assistant. The Correct keyword is important. It refers to the training data, where the answers were verified as correct. If you do not use it (eg: GPT4 User), it will still works, but it will five more weight to training data which was unverified (Human User was also used)
    • GPT4 Sytem or just System are the 2 official recommended ways to prefix system messages. Either work.
    • In my system message (pre_promt), I avoid any negative (eg: No repetitions). Remember this is just a language model: if it sees the word “repeat” (or similar), it will have a tendency to see this as an instruction to create repetitions! Instead I turned it around into a positive statement based on the word “unique”.
    • Trailing spaces in the prefixes and suffixes are not critical, but ensure proper formatting.

    As a bonus, here is my config for generating code, which according to my limited testing, this model seems to be surprisingly good at:

    {
      "name": "OpenChat Code",
      "inference_params": {
        "top_k": 1,
        "top_p": 0.1,
        "temp": 0.1,
        "input_prefix": "Code User: ",
        "input_suffix": "<|end_of_turn|>Code Assistant: ",
        "antiprompt": [
          "GPT4",
          "<|end_of_turn|>",
          "[End of Turn]",
          "[]"
        ],
        "pre_prompt": "You are a helpful coding assistant. Respond concisely, but ensure all essential details are provided. Each of your statements must be unique.",
        "pre_prompt_suffix": "<|end_of_turn|>",
        "pre_prompt_prefix": "GPT4 System: "
      }
    }
    
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      1 year ago

      I have been further testing code generation, and I am impressed! It seems be almost on par with GPT4, and it can do things GPT4 cannot, like writing code for Google Apps Script. I have tried a few relatively complex tasks, in various languages (Powershell, Python, Javascript, Google Apps Script), covering various domain (Active Directory, Spotify, Mathematics). As far as I can tell, the code provided is correct!

      Try the following example (make sure to load the OpenChat code prompt format I provided earlier); the result is impressive:

      I need help writing code for google apps script. Could you please write a function that connects to spotify and sort a given playlist by order of popularity. Then another function to write back the sorted track to a given playlist. Make sure to handle pagination properly, in case the spotify playlist is large. Also added errors and exception handling. Include details of how to connect to spotify.

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    1 year ago

    I’m just testing it casually rn in lmsys, and really like it’s flow and tone. It’s pretty pleasant to speak to from the get go, it’s a good start and I can’t wait to dig a bit harder on it.

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    1 year ago

    Great model. Question, do you know why it’s outputting these “<0x0A>” tokens?

    For example:

    Here are some ways to improve your vertical leap:**<0x0A><0x0A>**1. Strength training: Focus on exercises