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zephyr-orpo is an open-weight language model from Hugging Face. zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1 (BF16) weighs 281 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 4× H100 80 GB.
Summary of the HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1 model card, 2026-10-01
What it is
| Released by | Hugging Face |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-04-10 |
| Parameters | 140.6B |
| VRAM | 281 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … B200 180 GB 12 smaller cards | — | — | — | |
| 4× H100 80 GB tensor parallel | 8 | 2 | all 64K | 78.1 GB a card |
| 4× A100 80 GB tensor parallel | 15 | 3 | all 64K | 78.2 GB a card |
| 2× B200 180 GB tensor parallel | 32 | 8 | all 64K | 176 GB a card |
| 4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB tensor parallel | 41 | 10 | all 64K | 93.8 GB a card |
| 4× H200 141 GB tensor parallel | 135 | 33 | all 64K | 138 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 GB | 289 GB |
| 5 | 291 GB | 320 GB |
| 8 | 297 GB | 342 GB |
| 16 | 312 GB | 402 GB |
| 32 | 342 GB | 522 GB |
| 64 | 402 GB | 763 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
From the model card
Zephyr is a series of language models that are trained to act as helpful assistants. Zephyr 141B-A39B is the latest model in the series, and is a fine-tuned version of mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1 that was trained using a novel alignment algorithm called Odds Ratio Preference Optimization (ORPO) with 7k instances for 1.3 hours on 4 nodes of 8 x H100s. ORPO does not require an SFT step to achieve high performance and is thus much more computationally efficient than methods like DPO and PPO. To train Zephyr-141B-A39B, we used the argilla/distilabel-capybara-dpo-7k-binarized preference dataset, which consists of synthetic, high-quality, multi-turn preferences that have been scored via LLMs.
[!NOTE] This model was trained collaboratively between Argilla, KAIST, and Hugging Face
Zephyr 141B-A39B was trained to test the effectiveness of ORPO at scale and the underlying dataset contains a mix of general chat capabilities. It achieves strong performance on chat benchmarks like MT Bench and IFEval. The scores reported below were obtained using the LightEval evaluation suite and each prompt has been formatted with the model's corresponding chat template to simulate real-world usage. This is why some scores may differ from those reported in technical reports or on the Open LLM Leaderboard.
| Model | MT Bench | IFEval | BBH | AGIEval |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| zephyr-orpo-141b-A39b-v0.1 | 8.17 | 65.06 | 58.96 | 44.16 |
| databricks/dbrx-instruct | 8.26 | 52.13 | 48.50 | 41.16 |
| mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 | 8.30 | 55.08 | 45.31 | 47.68 |
The model was fine-tuned on a blend of chat, code, math, and reasoning data. Here's how you can run the model using the pipeline() function from 🤗 Transformers:
# pip install 'transformers>=4.39.3'
# pip install accelerate
import torch
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline(
"text-generation",
model="HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1",
device_map="auto",
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
)
messages = [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are Zephyr, a helpful assistant.",
},
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain how Mixture of Experts work in language a child would understand."},
]
outputs = pipe(
messages,
max_new_tokens=512,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.7,
top_k=50,
top_p=0.95,
)
print(outputs[0]["generated_text"][-1]["content"])
Zephyr 141B-A39B has not been aligned to human preferences for safety 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 model (mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1), 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 training:
If you find Zephyr 141B-A39B is useful in your work, please cite the ORPO paper:
@misc{hong2024orpo,
title={ORPO: Monolithic Preference Optimization without Reference Model},
author={Jiwoo Hong and Noah Lee and James Thorne},
year={2024},
eprint={2403.07691},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
You may also wish to cite the creators of this model:
@misc{zephyr_141b,
author = {Alvaro Bartolome and Jiwoo Hong and Noah Lee and Kashif Rasul and Lewis Tunstall},
title = {Zephyr 141B A39B},
year = {2024},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
journal = {Hugging Face repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1}}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.