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WizardLM-2-8x

Available as managed deployment LLMs alpindale · community Text gen 1 variants 9k dl/mo

WizardLM-2-8x is an open-weight language model from alpindale. 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

Released byalpindale
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)140.6B
Context64k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2024-04-16
Popularity9k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What WizardLM-2-8x is

🏠 WizardLM-2 Release Blog 🤗 HF Repo •🐱 Github Repo • 🐦 Twitter • 📃 [WizardLM] • 📃 [WizardCoder] • 📃 [WizardMath]

Read the full model card

See here for the WizardLM-2-7B re-upload.

News 🔥🔥🔥 [2024/04/15]

We introduce and opensource WizardLM-2, our next generation state-of-the-art large language models, which have improved performance on complex chat, multilingual, reasoning and agent. New family includes three cutting-edge models: WizardLM-2 8x22B, WizardLM-2 70B, and WizardLM-2 7B.

  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is our most advanced model, demonstrates highly competitive performance compared to those leading proprietary works and consistently outperforms all the existing state-of-the-art opensource models.
  • WizardLM-2 70B reaches top-tier reasoning capabilities and is the first choice in the same size.
  • WizardLM-2 7B is the fastest and achieves comparable performance with existing 10x larger opensource leading models.

For more details of WizardLM-2 please read our release blog post and upcoming paper.

Model Details

Model Capacities

MT-Bench

We also adopt the automatic MT-Bench evaluation framework based on GPT-4 proposed by lmsys to assess the performance of models. The WizardLM-2 8x22B even demonstrates highly competitive performance compared to the most advanced proprietary models. Meanwhile, WizardLM-2 7B and WizardLM-2 70B are all the top-performing models among the other leading baselines at 7B to 70B model scales.

Human Preferences Evaluation

We carefully collected a complex and challenging set consisting of real-world instructions, which includes main requirements of humanity, such as writing, coding, math, reasoning, agent, and multilingual. We report the win:loss rate without tie:

  • WizardLM-2 8x22B is just slightly falling behind GPT-4-1106-preview, and significantly stronger than Command R Plus and GPT4-0314.
  • WizardLM-2 70B is better than GPT4-0613, Mistral-Large, and Qwen1.5-72B-Chat.
  • WizardLM-2 7B is comparable with Qwen1.5-32B-Chat, and surpasses Qwen1.5-14B-Chat and Starling-LM-7B-beta.

Method Overview

We built a fully AI powered synthetic training system to train WizardLM-2 models, please refer to our blog for more details of this system.

Usage

❗Note for model system prompts usage:

A chat between a curious user and an artificial intelligence assistant. The assistant gives helpful,
detailed, and polite answers to the user's questions. USER: Hi ASSISTANT: Hello.
USER: Who are you? ASSISTANT: I am WizardLM.......

We provide a WizardLM-2 inference demo code on our github.

Open LLM Leaderboard Evaluation Results

Detailed results can be found here

MetricValue
Avg.32.61
IFEval (0-Shot)52.72
BBH (3-Shot)48.58
MATH Lvl 5 (4-Shot)22.28
GPQA (0-shot)17.56
MuSR (0-shot)14.54
MMLU-PRO (5-shot)39.96

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 GenerationIFEval (0-Shot)strict accuracy52.720
Text GenerationBBH (3-Shot)normalized accuracy48.580
Text GenerationMATH Lvl 5 (4-Shot)exact match22.280
Text GenerationGPQA (0-shot)acc_norm17.560
Text GenerationMuSR (0-shot)acc_norm14.540
Text GenerationMMLU-PRO (5-shot)accuracy39.960

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys wizardlm-2-8x for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (wizardlm-2-8x 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":"wizardlm-2-8x","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Create an account — your API key is available in the console. 3M free tokens every 30 days with every new account.

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