Model reference · open weights
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.
Summary of the allenai/tulu-2-7b model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | allenai |
|---|---|
| Released | 2023-11-13 |
| VRAM | 13.5 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB | — | — | 11.6 GB |
| RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB | — | 2K | 15.4 GB |
| RTX 3090 24 GB | 2 | all 8K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 4090 24 GB | 2 | all 8K | 23.4 GB |
| RTX 5090 32 GB | 3 | all 8K | 31.0 GB |
| L40S 48 GB | 6 | all 8K | 44.0 GB |
| A100 80 GB | 14 | all 8K | 78.2 GB |
| H100 80 GB | 14 | all 8K | 78.1 GB |
| RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB | 17 | all 8K | 93.8 GB |
| DGX Spark (GB10) 128 GB unified | 21 | all 8K | 107 GB |
| H200 141 GB | 28 | all 8K | 138 GB |
| B200 180 GB | 36 | all 8K | 176 GB |
| 2× RTX 3060 12 GB tensor parallel | 1 | all 8K | 11.6 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB tensor parallel | 3 | all 8K | 15.4 GB a card |
| 2× RTX 5090 32 GB tensor parallel | 11 | all 8K | 31.0 GB a card |
| 2× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 17 | all 8K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 4090 24 GB tensor parallel | 18 | all 8K | 23.4 GB a card |
| 4× RTX 3090 24 GB tensor parallel | 18 | all 8K | 23.4 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each |
|---|---|
| 1 | 18.4 GB |
| 5 | 35.6 GB |
| 8 | 48.5 GB |
| 16 | 82.8 GB |
| 32 | 152 GB |
| 64 | 289 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From 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 | Size | Alignment | MT-Bench (score) | AlpacaEval (win rate %) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tulu-v2-7b 🐪 | 7B | SFT | 6.30 | 73.9 |
| Tulu-v2-dpo-7b 🐪 | 7B | DPO | 6.29 | 85.1 |
| Tulu-v2-13b 🐪 | 13B | SFT | 6.70 | 78.9 |
| Tulu-v2-dpo-13b 🐪 | 13B | DPO | 7.00 | 89.5 |
| Tulu-v2-70b 🐪 | 70B | SFT | 7.49 | 86.6 |
| Tulu-v2-dpo-70b 🐪 | 70B | DPO | 7.89 | 95.1 |
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.
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.
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.
The following hyperparameters were used during DPO training:
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.