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DialoGPT-medium

DialoGPT-medium is an open-weight language model from microsoft, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What DialoGPT-medium is

A State-of-the-Art Large-scale Pretrained Response generation model (DialoGPT) DialoGPT is a SOTA large-scale pretrained dialogue response generation model for multiturn conversations. The human evaluation results indicate that the response generated from DialoGPT is comparable to human response quality under a single-turn conversation Turing test. The model is trained on 147M multi-turn dialogue from Reddit discussion thread. Multi-turn generation examples from an interactive environment: Please find the information about preprocessing, training and full details of the DialoGPT in the original DialoGPT repository ArXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00536 How to use Now we are ready to try out how the model works as a chatting partner!

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makermicrosoft
TypeLanguage models
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity169k downloads / month
Likes439
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
DialoGPT-mediumBF16Weights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys dialogpt-medium for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (dialogpt-medium below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"dialogpt-medium","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers pytorch tf jax rust gpt2 text-generation conversational text-generation-inference endpoints_compatible deploy:azure

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under mit — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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