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tulu-2

Available as managed deployment LLMs allenai Text gen 1 variants 8k dl/mo

tulu-2 is an open-weight language model from allenai. 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

Makerallenai
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Context8k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Based onmeta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf
Released2023-11-13
Popularity8k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What tulu-2 is

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

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 tulu-2 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (tulu-2 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":"tulu-2","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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