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stablelm-zephyr

Available as managed deployment Licence fee LLMs stabilityai Text gen 1 variants 15k dl/mo

stablelm-zephyr is an open-weight language model from stabilityai. 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

Makerstabilityai
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)2.8B
Runs withtransformers
Released2023-11-21
Popularity15k downloads / month
LicenceCommercial licence needed

About

What stablelm-zephyr is

Please note: For commercial use, please refer to https://stability.ai/license.

Model Description

StableLM Zephyr 3B is a 3 billion parameter instruction tuned inspired by HugginFaceH4's Zephyr 7B training pipeline this model was trained on a mix of publicly available datasets, synthetic datasets using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), evaluation for this model based on MT Bench and Alpaca Benchmark

Usage

StableLM Zephyr 3B uses the following instruction format:

List 3 synonyms for the word "tiny"
1. Dwarf
2. Little
3. Petite

This format is also available through the tokenizer's apply_chat_template method:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b')
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    'stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b',
    device_map="auto"
)

prompt = [{'role': 'user', 'content': 'List 3 synonyms for the word "tiny"'}]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    prompt,
    add_generation_prompt=True,
    return_tensors='pt'
)

tokens = model.generate(
    inputs.to(model.device),
    max_new_tokens=1024,
    temperature=0.8,
    do_sample=True
)

print(tokenizer.decode(tokens[0], skip_special_tokens=False))

You can also see how to run a performance optimized version of this model here using OpenVINO from Intel.

Model Details

  • Developed by: Stability AI
  • Model type: StableLM Zephyr 3B model is an auto-regressive language model based on the transformer decoder architecture.
  • Language(s): English
  • Library: Alignment Handbook
  • Finetuned from model: stabilityai/stablelm-3b-4e1t
  • License: StabilityAI Community License.
  • Commercial License: to use this model commercially, please refer to https://stability.ai/license
  • Contact: For questions and comments about the model, please email lm@stability.ai

Training Dataset

The dataset is comprised of a mixture of open datasets large-scale datasets available on the HuggingFace Hub:

  1. SFT Datasets
  • HuggingFaceH4/ultrachat_200k
  • meta-math/MetaMathQA
  • WizardLM/WizardLM_evol_instruct_V2_196k
  • Open-Orca/SlimOrca
  1. Preference Datasets:
  • HuggingFaceH4/ultrafeedback_binarized
  • Intel/orca_dpo_pairs

Performance

MT-Bench and Alpaca Bench

ModelSizeAlignmentMT-Bench (score)AlpacaEval (win rate %)
StableLM Zephyr 3B 🪁3BDPO6.6476.00
StableLM Zephyr (SFT only)3BSFT6.0471.15
Capybara v1.93BdSFT5.94-
MPT-Chat7BdSFT5.42-
Xwin-LM v0.17BdPPO6.1987.83
Mistral-Instruct v0.17B-6.84-
Zephyr-7b-α7BdDPO6.88-
Zephyr-7b-β7BdDPO7.3490.60
Falcon-Instruct40BdSFT5.1745.71
Guanaco65BSFT6.4171.80
Llama2-Chat70BRLHF6.8692.66
Vicuna v1.333BdSFT7.1288.99
WizardLM v1.070BdSFT7.71-
Xwin-LM v0.170BdPPO-95.57
GPT-3.5-turbo-RLHF7.9489.37
Claude 2-RLHF8.0691.36
GPT-4-RLHF8.9995.28

Other benchmarks:

TaskValue
ARC (25-shot)47.0
HellaSwag (10-shot)74.2
MMLU (5-shot)46.3
TruthfulQA (0-shot)46.5
Winogrande (5-shot)65.5
GSM8K (5-shot)42.3
BigBench (Avg)35.26
AGI Benchmark (Avg)33.23

Training Infrastructure

  • Hardware: StableLM Zephyr 3B was trained on the Stability AI cluster across 8 nodes with 8 A100 80GBs GPUs for each nodes.
  • Code Base: We use our internal script for SFT steps and used HuggingFace Alignment Handbook script for DPO training.

Commitment to Ethical AI

In line with our responsibility towards ethical AI development, StableLM Zephyr 3B is released with a focus on ensuring safety, reliability, and appropriateness in its applications. To this end, we have evaluated StableLM Zephyr 3B on 488 malicious prompts and used standard protocols to assess the harmfulness of its outputs. Compared to Zephyr-7b-β, StableLM Zephyr 3B reduces the number of harmful outputs as assessed by GPT-4 by 55. Additionally, we performed an internal red teaming event targeting the following abuse areas:

  • Self-Harm Methods: (Suicide Methods, Encouragement of Self-Harm, Methods and encouragement of Eating Disorders)
  • Misinformation: (Health, Conspiracy Theories, Social Unrest/Conflict, Political Misinformation, & Climate change)
  • Hate Speech: (Race, Stereotypes, Immigrants, Gender, Personally Identifiable Information such as Social security numbers, Full names, ID numbers, Email addresses, and telephone numbers)

We have incorporated the findings of our malicious prompts evaluation and red teaming event into our release. Users are encouraged to fine-tune and evaluate the model to suit their specific needs, considering the potential biases and limitations found in StableLM Zephyr 3B and inherent in other LLM models.

Use and Limitations

Intended Use

The model is intended to be used as a foundational base model for application-specific fine-tuning. Developers must evaluate and fine-tune th

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

Benchmarks

Reported results

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

TaskDatasetMetricScore
Text GenerationAI2 Reasoning Challenge (25-Shot)normalized accuracy46.080
Text GenerationHellaSwag (10-Shot)normalized accuracy74.160
Text GenerationMMLU (5-Shot)accuracy46.170
Text GenerationTruthfulQA (0-shot)mc246.490
Text GenerationWinogrande (5-shot)accuracy65.510
Text GenerationGSM8k (5-shot)accuracy42.150

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

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

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 5M tokens/month currently included with every new account at launch.

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