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Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-DPO

LLMs allenai Text gen 1 build Open, with conditions 14k dl/mo

Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-DPO is an open-weight language model from allenai. Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPO (BF16) weighs 16.1 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-DPO is an 8.0B parameter text-generation model developed by allenai, designed for instruction following and diverse tasks such as MATH, GSM8K, and IFEval.
  • The model supports a context length of 131,072 tokens and is primarily optimized for English.
  • It is released under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement.

Summary of the allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPO model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byallenai
Released2024-11-20
Parameters8.0B
VRAM16.1 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPO (BF16)

16.1 GBweights, file size
131 MBcache per 1K tokens
745 MBruntime overhead, at least
131,072 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
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RTX 3090 24 GB6149K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB6148K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB133105K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB256all 128K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB5714all 128K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB5313all 128K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB6716all 128K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified8020all 128K107 GB
H200 141 GB10927all 128K138 GB
B200 180 GB14335all 128K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
5142K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
12398K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
276all 128K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
276all 128K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
117.9 GB21.1 GB
522.2 GB38.3 GB
825.4 GB51.2 GB
1634.0 GB85.5 GB
3251.2 GB154 GB
6485.5 GB292 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What allenai says about Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-DPO

Read the model card

Tülu3 is a leading instruction following model family, offering fully open-source data, code, and recipes designed to serve as a comprehensive guide for modern post-training techniques. Tülu3 is designed for state-of-the-art performance on a diversity of tasks in addition to chat, such as MATH, GSM8K, and IFEval.

Model description

  • Model type: A model trained on a mix of publicly available, synthetic and human-created datasets.
  • Language(s) (NLP): Primarily English
  • License: Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement
  • Finetuned from model: allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-SFT

Model Sources

  • Training Repository: https://github.com/allenai/open-instruct
  • Eval Repository: https://github.com/allenai/olmes
  • Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15124
  • Demo: https://playground.allenai.org/

Model Family

StageLlama 3.1 8BLlama 3.1 70B
Base Modelmeta-llama/Llama-3.1-8Bmeta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B
SFTallenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-SFTallenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B-SFT
DPOallenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPOallenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B-DPO
Final Models (RLVR)allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8Ballenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-70B
Reward Model (RM)allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-RM(Same as 8B)
StageLlama 3.1 405B
Base Modelmeta-llama/llama-3.1-405B
SFTallenai/llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B-SFT
DPOallenai/llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B-DPO
Final Model (RLVR)allenai/llama-3.1-Tulu-3-405B
Reward Model (RM)(Same as 8B)

Using the model

Loading with HuggingFace

To load the model with HuggingFace, use the following snippet:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

tulu_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPO")

VLLM

As a Llama base model, the model can be easily served with:

vllm serve allenai/Llama-3.1-Tulu-3-8B-DPO

Note that given the long chat template of Llama, you may want to use --max_model_len=8192.

Chat template

The chat template for our models is formatted as:

Or with new lines expanded:

How are you doing?
I'm just a computer program, so I don't have feelings, but I'm functioning as expected. How can I assist you today?

It is embedded within the tokenizer as well, for tokenizer.apply_chat_template.

System prompt

In Ai2 demos, we use this system prompt by default:

You are Tulu 3, a helpful and harmless AI Assistant built by the Allen Institute for AI.

The model has not been trained with a specific system prompt in mind.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

The Tülu3 models have limited safety training, but are not deployed automatically with in-the-loop filtering of responses like ChatGPT, so the model can produce problematic outputs (especially when prompted to do so). It is also unknown what the size and composition of the corpus was used to train the base Llama 3.1 models, however it is likely to have included a mix of Web data and technical sources like books and code. See the Falcon 180B model card for an example of this.

Performance

Benchmark (eval)Tülu 3 SFT 8BTülu 3 DPO 8BTülu 3 8BLlama 3.1 8B InstructQwen 2.5 7B InstructMagpie 8BGemma 2 9B InstructMinistral 8B Instruct
Avg.60.464.464.862.257.844.755.258.3
MMLU (0 shot, CoT)65.968.768.271.276.662.074.668.5
PopQA (15 shot)29.329.329.120.218.122.528.320.2
TruthfulQA (6 shot)46.856.155.055.163.157.061.455.5
BigBenchHard (3 shot, CoT)67.965.866.062.821.70.92.556.2
DROP (3 shot)61.362.5

Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.

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