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granite-3.0

granite-3.0 is an open-weight language model from ibm-granite, 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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What granite-3.0 is

Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct Model Summary: Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct is a 8B parameter model finetuned from Granite-3.0-8B-Base using a combination of open source instruction datasets with permissive license and internally collected synthetic datasets. This model is developed using a diverse set of techniques with a structured chat format, including supervised finetuning, model alignment using reinforcement learning, and model merging. - Developers: Granite Team, IBM - GitHub Repository: ibm-granite/granite-3.0-language-models - Website: Granite Docs - Paper: Granite 3.0 Language Models - Release Date: October 21st, 2024 - License: Apache 2.0 Supported Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese. Users may finetune Granite 3.0 models for languages beyond these 12 languages. Intended use: The model is designed to respond to general instructions and can be used to build AI assistants for multiple domains, including business applications. Capabilities Summarization Text classification Text extraction Question-answering Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Code related tasks Function-calling tasks Multilingual dialog use cases Generation: This is a simple example of how to use Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct model. Install the following libraries: Then, copy the snippet from the section that is relevant for your use case. Model Architecture: Granite-3.0-8B-Instruct is based on a decoder-only dense transformer architecture. Core components of this architecture are: GQA and RoPE, MLP with SwiGLU, RMSNorm, and shared input/output embeddings. Training Data: Overall, our SFT data is largely comprised of three key sources: (1) publicly available datasets with permissive license, (2) internal synthetic data targeting specific capabilities, and (3) very small amounts of human-curated data. A detailed attribution of datasets can be found in the Granite Technical Report and Accompanying Author List. Infrastructure: We train Granite 3.0 Language Models using IBM's super computing cluster, Blue Vela, which is outfitted with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. This cluster provides a scalable and efficient infrastructure for training our

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

Specifications

What it is

Makeribm-granite
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)8.2B
Context4k tokens
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Based onibm-granite/granite-3.0-8b-base
Released2024-10-02
Popularity154k downloads / month
Likes208
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
granite-3.0-8b-instruct8.2BBF16~18.8 GBWeights ↗
granite-3.0-2b-instruct2.6BBF16~6.1 GBWeights ↗

Benchmarks

Reported results

As published on the model card — the maker's own numbers, not measured by AxForge.

TaskDatasetMetricScore
text-generationIFEvalpass@152.27
text-generationMT-Benchpass@18.22
text-generationAGI-Evalpass@140.52
text-generationMMLUpass@165.82
text-generationMMLU-Propass@134.45
text-generationOBQApass@146.6
text-generationSIQApass@171.21
text-generationHellaswagpass@182.61
text-generationWinoGrandepass@177.51
text-generationTruthfulQApass@160.32
text-generationBoolQpass@188.65
text-generationSQuAD 2.0pass@121.58
text-generationARC-Cpass@164.16
text-generationGPQApass@133.81
text-generationBBHpass@151.55
text-generationHumanEvalSynthesispass@164.63
text-generationHumanEvalExplainpass@157.16
text-generationHumanEvalFixpass@165.85
text-generationMBPPpass@149.6
text-generationGSM8Kpass@168.99
text-generationMATHpass@130.94
text-generationPAWS-X (7 langs)pass@164.94
text-generationMGSM (6 langs)pass@148.2

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys granite-3-0 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (granite-3-0 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":"granite-3-0","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers safetensors granite text-generation language granite-3.0 conversational model-index eval-results

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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