README.md

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license: apache-2.0
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# Base checkpoint
augmxnt/shisa-7b-v1
* Mistral-7B base
* Pre-trained on 8B of MADLAD-Ja
* Finetuned on Japanese instructions
* Highest scoring 7B model on conversation benchmark (JA MT-Bench)

# Training datasets (total ~7B)
* Aozora Bunko
* Japanese Law Precedent Dataset
* Japanese Wikipedia
* .lg.jp, .go.jp, .ac.jp domain webscrapes from CulturaX (Any documents with same first 25 characters were de-duplicated)
* English Ultrachat200K-gen (So that it doesn't forget English and chatting ability learned in the base checkpoint)