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DialoGPT-small

Available as managed deployment LLMs microsoft Text gen 1 variants 54k dl/mo

DialoGPT-small is an open-weight language model from microsoft. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released bymicrosoft
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)176M
Context1k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity54k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What DialoGPT-small 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.

Read the full model card
  • Multi-turn generation examples from an interactive environment:
RoleResponse
UserDoes money buy happiness?
BotDepends how much money you spend on it .
UserWhat is the best way to buy happiness ?
BotYou just have to be a millionaire by your early 20s, then you can be happy .
UserThis is so difficult !
BotYou have no idea how hard it is to be a millionaire and happy . There is a reason the rich have a lot of money

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!

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/DialoGPT-small")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/DialoGPT-small")

# Let's chat for 5 lines
for step in range(5):
	# encode the new user input, add the eos_token and return a tensor in Pytorch
	new_user_input_ids = tokenizer.encode(input(">> User:") + tokenizer.eos_token, return_tensors='pt')

	# append the new user input tokens to the chat history
	bot_input_ids = torch.cat([chat_history_ids, new_user_input_ids], dim=-1) if step > 0 else new_user_input_ids

	# generated a response while limiting the total chat history to 1000 tokens,
	chat_history_ids = model.generate(bot_input_ids, max_length=1000, pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id)

	# pretty print last ouput tokens from bot
	print("DialoGPT: {}".format(tokenizer.decode(chat_history_ids[:, bot_input_ids.shape[-1]:][0], skip_special_tokens=True)))

Open LLM Leaderboard Evaluation Results

Detailed results can be found here

MetricValue
Avg.25.02
ARC (25-shot)25.77
HellaSwag (10-shot)25.79
MMLU (5-shot)25.81
TruthfulQA (0-shot)47.49
Winogrande (5-shot)50.28
GSM8K (5-shot)0.0
DROP (3-shot)0.0

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys dialogpt-small for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (dialogpt-small 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-small","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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