FOR EXPERIMENT

Description

stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b, StableMed-3b merged with a new, experimental implementation of "dare ties" via mergekit. See:

Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch

https://github.com/cg123/mergekit/tree/dare

Usage

StableLM Zephyr 3B uses the following instruction format:

<|user|>
List 3 synonyms for the word "tiny"<|endoftext|>
<|assistant|>
1. Dwarf
2. Little
3. Petite<|endoftext|>

Testing Notes

Merged in mergekit with the following config, and the tokenizer from chargoddard's Yi-Llama:

models:
  - model: stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
    # no parameters necessary for base model
  - model: cxllin/StableMed-3b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.08
      density: 0.5
merge_method: dare_ties
base_model: stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
parameters:
  int8_mask: true
dtype: bfloat16

Model Details

License: StabilityAI Non-Commercial Research Community License