mistral-src VS open_llama

A French startup, Mistral AI has released two impressive large language models (LLMs) - Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B. These models push the boundaries of performance and introduce a better architectural innovation aimed at optimizing inference speed and computational efficiency.

However, some models are publicly available. It’s the case for Mistral, a fast, and efficient French model which seems to outperform GPT4 on some tasks. And it is under Apache 2.0 license 😊.

I recommend starting either with llama2 or Mistral. You need to download the pretrained weights and convert them into GGUF format before they can be used with llama.cpp.

> Instead, it turns out a few hundred lines of Python is genuinely enough to train a basic version!

actually its not just a basic version. Llama 1/2's model.py is 500 lines: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/mo...

Mistral (is rumored to have) forked llama and is 369 lines: https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src/blob/main/mistral/m...

and both of these are SOTA open source models.

MistralAI, a French startup, developed a 7.3 billion parameter LLM named Mistral for various applications. Committed to open-sourcing its technology under Apache 2.0, the training dataset details for Mistral remain undisclosed. The Mistral Instruct model was fine-tuned using publicly available instruction datasets from the Hugging Face repository, though specifics about the licenses and potential constraints are not detailed. Recently, MistralAI released Mixtral 8x7B, a model based on the sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) architecture, consisting of several specialized models (likely eight, as suggested by its name) activated as needed.

I was getting into LLM and I pick up some projects. I tried to dive into the code to see what is secret sauce.

But the code is so short to the point there is nothing to really read.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama

I then proceed to check https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-src and suprsingly it's same.

What is exactly those codebases? It feels like just download the models.

The RedPajama dataset was adapted by the OpenLLaMA project at UC Berkeley, creating an open-source LLaMA equivalent without Meta’s restrictions. The model's later version also included data from Falcon and StarCoder. This highlights the importance of open-source models and datasets, enabling free repurposing and innovation.

OpenLLaMA is though. https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama

All of these are surmountable problems.

We can beat OpenAI.

We can drain their moat.

#1: 🌞 Open-source Reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA OpenLLaMA-13B released. (trained for 1T tokens) | 0 comments #2: 🎉 #1 on HuggingFace.co's Leaderboard Model Falcon 40B is now Free (Apache 2.0 License) | 0 comments #3: 😍 Have you seen this repo? "running LLMs on consumer-grade hardware. compatible models: llama.cpp, alpaca.cpp, gpt4all.cpp, rwkv.cpp, whisper.cpp, vicuna, koala, gpt4all-j, cerebras and many others!" | 0 comments

Trained OpenLLaMA models are from the OpenLM Research team in collaboration with Stability AI: https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama

I can't use Llama or any model from the Llama family, due to license restrictions. Although now there's also the OpenLlama family of models, which have the same architecture but were trained on an open dataset (RedPajama, the same dataset the base model in my app was trained on). I'd love to pursue the direction of extended context lengths for on-device LLMs. Likely in a month or so, when I've implemented all the product feature that I currently have on my backlog.

https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama#update-0615202...).

XGen-7B is probably the superior 7B model, it's trained on more tokens and a longer default sequence length (although both presumably can adopt SuperHOT (Position Interpolation) to extend context), but larger models still probably perform better on an absolute basis.

Compare it to openllama. It github doesn't have a single script on how to do anything.

OpenLLaMA models up to 13B parameters have now been trained on 1T tokens:

https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llama

The deployed LLM binary, orca mini, has 3 billion parameters. Orca mini is based on the OpenLLaMA project.

OpenLM Research released its 1T token version of OpenLLaMA 13B - the permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI's LLaMA large language model. [Details].