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Yi-Coder

Available as managed deployment LLMs 01-ai Text gen 2 variants 9k dl/mo

Yi-Coder is an open-weight language model from 01-ai. 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

Maker01-ai
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)8.8B
Context128k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Based on01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B
Released2024-08-21
Popularity9k downloads / month
LicenceOpen weights

About

What Yi-Coder is

Yi-Coder is a series of open-source code language models that delivers state-of-the-art coding performance with fewer than 10 billion parameters.

Key features:

  • Excelling in long-context understanding with a maximum context length of 128K tokens.
  • Supporting 52 major programming languages:
  'java', 'markdown', 'python', 'php', 'javascript', 'c++', 'c#', 'c', 'typescript', 'html', 'go', 'java_server_pages', 'dart', 'objective-c', 'kotlin', 'tex', 'swift', 'ruby', 'sql', 'rust', 'css', 'yaml', 'matlab', 'lua', 'json', 'shell', 'visual_basic', 'scala', 'rmarkdown', 'pascal', 'fortran', 'haskell', 'assembly', 'perl', 'julia', 'cmake', 'groovy', 'ocaml', 'powershell', 'elixir', 'clojure', 'makefile', 'coffeescript', 'erlang', 'lisp', 'toml', 'batchfile', 'cobol', 'dockerfile', 'r', 'prolog', 'verilog'

For model details and benchmarks, see Yi-Coder blog and Yi-Coder README.

Models

NameTypeLengthDownload
Yi-Coder-9B-ChatChat128K🤗 Hugging Face🤖 ModelScope🟣 wisemodel
Yi-Coder-1.5B-ChatChat128K🤗 Hugging Face🤖 ModelScope🟣 wisemodel
Yi-Coder-9BBase128K🤗 Hugging Face🤖 ModelScope🟣 wisemodel
Yi-Coder-1.5BBase128K🤗 Hugging Face🤖 ModelScope🟣 wisemodel

Benchmarks

As illustrated in the figure below, Yi-Coder-9B-Chat achieved an impressive 23% pass rate in LiveCodeBench, making it the only model with under 10B parameters to surpass 20%. It also outperforms DeepSeekCoder-33B-Ins at 22.3%, CodeGeex4-9B-all at 17.8%, CodeLLama-34B-Ins at 13.3%, and CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat at 12%.

Quick Start

You can use transformers to run inference with Yi-Coder models (both chat and base versions) as follows:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto
model_path = "01-ai/Yi-Coder-9B-Chat"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_path, device_map="auto").eval()

prompt = "Write a quick sort algorithm."
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    model_inputs.input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=1024,
    eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id
)
generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(response)

For getting up and running with Yi-Coder series models quickly, see Yi-Coder README.

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 yi-coder for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (yi-coder 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":"yi-coder","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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