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tulu-2

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tulu-2 is an open-weight language model from allenai. tulu-2-7b (BF16) weighs 13.5 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 2× RTX 3060 12 GB.

  • Tulu 2 is a 7B parameter text-generation model developed by Allen AI, fine-tuned from Llama 2 to function as a helpful assistant.
  • It supports English with a context length of 8192 tokens and is released under the AI2 ImpACT license.
  • The model was trained on a mixture of publicly available, synthetic, and human-created datasets.

Summary of the allenai/tulu-2-7b model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byallenai
Released2023-11-13
VRAM13.5 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for tulu-2-7b (BF16)

13.5 GBweights, file size
524 MBcache per 1K tokens
620 MBruntime overhead, at least
8,192 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each
RTX 3060 12 GB——11.6 GB
RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB—2K15.4 GB
RTX 3090 24 GB2all 8K23.4 GB
RTX 4090 24 GB2all 8K23.4 GB
RTX 5090 32 GB3all 8K31.0 GB
L40S 48 GB6all 8K44.0 GB
A100 80 GB14all 8K78.2 GB
H100 80 GB14all 8K78.1 GB
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB17all 8K93.8 GB
DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified21all 8K107 GB
H200 141 GB28all 8K138 GB
B200 180 GB36all 8K176 GB
2× RTX 3060 12 GB
tensor parallel
1all 8K11.6 GB a card
2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
tensor parallel
3all 8K15.4 GB a card
2× RTX 5090 32 GB
tensor parallel
11all 8K31.0 GB a card
2× L40S 48 GB
tensor parallel
17all 8K44.0 GB a card
4× RTX 4090 24 GB
tensor parallel
18all 8K23.4 GB a card
4× RTX 3090 24 GB
tensor parallel
18all 8K23.4 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each
118.4 GB
535.6 GB
848.5 GB
1682.8 GB
32152 GB
64289 GB

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

From the model card

What allenai says about tulu-2

Read the model card

Tulu is a series of language models that are trained to act as helpful assistants. Tulu 2 7B is a fine-tuned version of Llama 2 that was trained on a mix of publicly available, synthetic and human datasets.

For more details, read the paper: Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2 .

Model description

  • Model type: A model belonging to a suite of instruction and RLHF tuned chat models on a mix of publicly available, synthetic and human-created datasets.
  • Language(s) (NLP): Primarily English
  • License: AI2 ImpACT Low-risk license.
  • Finetuned from model: meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf

Model Sources

  • Repository: https://github.com/allenai/open-instruct
  • Model Family: Other models and the dataset are found in the Tulu V2 collection.

Performance

ModelSizeAlignmentMT-Bench (score)AlpacaEval (win rate %)
Tulu-v2-7b 🐪7BSFT6.3073.9
Tulu-v2-dpo-7b 🐪7BDPO6.2985.1
Tulu-v2-13b 🐪13BSFT6.7078.9
Tulu-v2-dpo-13b 🐪13BDPO7.0089.5
Tulu-v2-70b 🐪70BSFT7.4986.6
Tulu-v2-dpo-70b 🐪70BDPO7.8995.1

Input Format

The model is trained to use the following format (note the newlines):

Your message here!

For best results, format all inputs in this manner. Make sure to include a newline after ``, this can affect generation quality quite a bit.

Intended uses & limitations

The model was fine-tuned on a filtered and preprocessed of the Tulu V2 mix dataset, which contains a diverse range of human created instructions and synthetic dialogues generated primarily by other LLMs.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

The Tulu models have not been aligned to generate safe completions within the RLHF phase or deployed 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 2 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.

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during DPO training:

  • learning_rate: 2e-5
  • total_train_batch_size: 128
  • optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
  • lr_scheduler_type: linear
  • lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.03
  • num_epochs: 2.0

Citation

If you find Tulu 2 is useful in your work, please cite it with:

@misc{ivison2023camels,
      title={Camels in a Changing Climate: Enhancing LM Adaptation with Tulu 2},
      author={Hamish Ivison and Yizhong Wang and Valentina Pyatkin and Nathan Lambert and Matthew Peters and Pradeep Dasigi and Joel Jang and David Wadden and Noah A. Smith and Iz Beltagy and Hannaneh Hajishirzi},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.10702},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Model card adapted from Zephyr Beta

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

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