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L3-Lunaris

Available as managed deployment LLMs Sao10K · community Text gen 1 variants 1k dl/mo

L3-Lunaris is an open-weight language model from Sao10K. 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 bySao10K
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)8.0B
Context8k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-06-26
Popularity1k downloads / month
LicenceOpen, with conditions

About

What L3-Lunaris is

A generalist / roleplaying model merge based on Llama 3. Models are selected from my personal experience while using them.

I personally think this is an improvement over Stheno v3.2, considering the other models helped balance out its creativity and at the same time improving its logic.

Settings:

Instruct // Context Template: Llama-3-Instruct
Temperature: 1.4
min_p: 0.1

Merging seems to be a black box magic though? In my personal experience merging multiple models from different datasets / data works better than combining them all in one.

Values chosen are from long-running personal experimentation since Llama-2 Merging Era. I have tweaked them to fit this recipe.

Mergekit Config

Read the full model card
models:
  - model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
  - model: crestf411/L3-8B-sunfall-v0.1 # Another RP Model trained on... stuff
    parameters:
      density: 0.4
      weight: 0.25
  - model: Hastagaras/Jamet-8B-L3-MK1 - # Another RP / Storytelling Model
    parameters:
      density: 0.5
      weight: 0.3
  - model: maldv/badger-iota-llama-3-8b #Megamerge - Helps with General Knowledge
    parameters:
      density: 0.6
      weight: 0.35
  - model: Sao10K/Stheno-3.2-Beta # This is Stheno v3.2's Initial Name
    parameters:
      density: 0.7
      weight: 0.4
merge_method: ties
base_model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
parameters:
  int8_mask: true
  rescale: true
  normalize: false
dtype: bfloat16

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 l3-lunaris for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (l3-lunaris 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":"l3-lunaris","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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