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Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR

LLMs NousResearch Text gen 1 build Open weights 9k dl/mo

Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR is an open-weight language model from NousResearch. Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B (BF16) weighs 21.5 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is RTX 4090 24 GB.

  • Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR is a 10.7B parameter text-generation model developed by NousResearch.
  • It is designed for multi-turn chat dialogue using the ChatML prompt format and supports English.
  • The model features a 4096 token context length and is released under the apache-2.0 license.

Summary of the NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byNousResearch
Released2024-01-01
Parameters10.7B
VRAM21.5 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10.7B (BF16)

21.5 GBweights, file size
197 MBcache per 1K tokens
647 MBruntime overhead, at least
4,096 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
4K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
2 smaller cards
——
RTX 3090 24 GB1all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB1all 4K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB11all 4K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB27all 4K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB69all 4K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB65all 4K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB85all 4K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified102all 4K107 GB
H200 141 GB140all 4K138 GB
B200 180 GB186all 4K176 GB
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
10all 4K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
29all 4K23.4 GB a card
2× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
29all 4K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once4K tokens each
122.9 GB
526.1 GB
828.6 GB
1635.0 GB
3247.9 GB
6473.6 GB

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

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What NousResearch says about Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR

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Model description

Nous Hermes 2 - SOLAR 10.7B is the flagship Nous Research model on the SOLAR 10.7B base model..

Nous Hermes 2 SOLAR 10.7B was trained on 1,000,000 entries of primarily GPT-4 generated data, as well as other high quality data from open datasets across the AI landscape.

Table of Contents

  1. Example Outputs
  2. Benchmark Results
    • GPT4All
    • AGIEval
    • BigBench
    • TruthfulQA
  3. Prompt Format
  4. Quantized Models

Benchmark Results

Nous-Hermes 2 on SOLAR 10.7B is a major improvement across the board on the benchmarks below compared to the base SOLAR 10.7B model, and comes close to approaching our Yi-34B model!

Example Outputs

Ask for help creating a discord bot:

Benchmarks Compared

GPT4All:

AGIEval:

BigBench:

TruthfulQA:

GPT4All

GPT-4All Benchmark Set

|    Task     |Version| Metric |Value |   |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|arc_challenge|      0|acc     |0.5768|_  |0.0144|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.6067|_  |0.0143|
|arc_easy     |      0|acc     |0.8375|_  |0.0076|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.8316|_  |0.0077|
|boolq        |      1|acc     |0.8875|_  |0.0055|
|hellaswag    |      0|acc     |0.6467|_  |0.0048|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.8321|_  |0.0037|
|openbookqa   |      0|acc     |0.3420|_  |0.0212|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.4580|_  |0.0223|
|piqa         |      0|acc     |0.8161|_  |0.0090|
|             |       |acc_norm|0.8313|_  |0.0087|
|winogrande   |      0|acc     |0.7814|_  |0.0116|

Average: 74.69%

AGI-Eval

|             Task             |Version| Metric |Value |   |Stderr|
|------------------------------|------:|--------|-----:|---|-----:|
|agieval_aqua_rat              |      0|acc     |0.3189|_  |0.0293|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.2953|_  |0.0287|
|agieval_logiqa_en             |      0|acc     |0.5438|_  |0.0195|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.4977|_  |0.0196|
|agieval_lsat_ar               |      0|acc     |0.2696|_  |0.0293|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.2087|_  |0.0269|
|agieval_lsat_lr               |      0|acc     |0.7078|_  |0.0202|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.6255|_  |0.0215|
|agieval_lsat_rc               |      0|acc     |0.7807|_  |0.0253|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.7063|_  |0.0278|
|agieval_sat_en                |      0|acc     |0.8689|_  |0.0236|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.8447|_  |0.0253|
|agieval_sat_en_without_passage|      0|acc     |0.5194|_  |0.0349|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.4612|_  |0.0348|
|agieval_sat_math              |      0|acc     |0.4409|_  |0.0336|
|                              |       |acc_norm|0.3818|_  |0.0328|

Average: 47.79%

BigBench Reasoning Test

|                      Task                      |Version|       Metric        |Value |   |Stderr|
|------------------------------------------------|------:|---------------------|-----:|---|-----:|
|bigbench_causal_judgement                       |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5737|_  |0.0360|
|bigbench_date_understanding                     |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.7263|_  |0.0232|
|bigbench_disambiguation_qa                      |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3953|_  |0.0305|
|bigbench_geometric_shapes                       |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4457|_  |0.0263|
|                                                |       |exact_str_match      |0.0000|_  |0.0000|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_five_objects         |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2820|_  |0.0201|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_seven_objects        |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2186|_  |0.0156|
|bigbench_logical_deduction_three_objects        |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4733|_  |0.0289|
|bigbench_movie_recommendation                   |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5200|_  |0.0224|
|bigbench_navigate                               |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4910|_  |0.0158|
|bigbench_reasoning_about_colored_objects        |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.7495|_  |0.0097|
|bigbench_ruin_names                             |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5938|_  |0.0232|
|bigbench_salient_translation_error_detection    |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3808|_  |0.0154|
|bigbench_snarks                                 |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.8066|_  |0.0294|
|bigbench_sports_understanding                   |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.5101|_  |0.0159|
|bigbench_temporal_sequences                     |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.3850|_  |0.0154|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_five_objects |      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.2160|_  |0.0116|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_seven_objects|      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.1634|_  |0.0088|
|bigbench_tracking_shuffled_objects_three_objects|      0|multiple_choice_grade|0.4733|_  |0.0289|
Average: 44.84%

TruthfulQA:

|    Task     |Version|Metric|Value |   |Stderr|
|-------------|------:|------|-----:|---|-----:|
|truthfulqa_mc|      1|mc1   |0.3917|_  |0.0171|
|             |       |mc2   |0.5592|_  |0.0154|

Average Score Comparison between OpenHermes-1 Llama-2 13B and OpenHermes-2 Mistral 7B against OpenHermes-2.5 on Mistral-7B:

|     Bench     | OpenHermes-2.5 Mistral 7B | Nous-Hermes-2-SOLAR-10B | Change/OpenHermes2.5 |
|---------------|---------------------------|------------------------|-----------------------|
|GPT4All        |                      73.12|                   74.69|                  +1.57|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|BigBench       |                      40.96|                   44.84|                  +3.88|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|AGI Eval       |                      43.07|

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