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zephyr-orpo

LLMs HuggingFaceH4 Text gen · MoE 1 build Open weights 151 dl/mo

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.

  • Zephyr-orpo is a 140.6B parameter Mixture of Experts model developed by Hugging Face for text generation tasks.
  • It is primarily designed for English language assistance and features a context length of 65536 tokens.
  • The model is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Summary of the HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1 model card, 2026-10-01

What it is

Released byHugging Face
Released2024-04-10
Parameters140.6B
VRAM281 GB for the weights

What it runs on

Memory and cards for zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1 (BF16)

281 GBweights, file size
229 MBcache per 1K tokens
697 MBruntime overhead, at least
65,536 tokenscontext max
CardRequests at onceContext maxMemory
8K each32K each
RTX 3060 12 GB … B200 180 GB
12 smaller cards
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4× H100 80 GB
tensor parallel
82all 64K78.1 GB a card
4× A100 80 GB
tensor parallel
153all 64K78.2 GB a card
2× B200 180 GB
tensor parallel
328all 64K176 GB a card
4× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB
tensor parallel
4110all 64K93.8 GB a card
4× H200 141 GB
tensor parallel
13533all 64K138 GB a card
Memory needed at each load
Requests at once8K tokens each32K tokens each
1284 GB289 GB
5291 GB320 GB
8297 GB342 GB
16312 GB402 GB
32342 GB522 GB
64402 GB763 GB

One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.

From the model card

What Hugging Face says about zephyr-orpo

Read 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

Model Details

Model Description

  • Model type: A Mixture of Experts (MoE) model with 141B total parameters and 39B active parameters. (We initially made a small error in calculating the number of active parameters for the model ID. The model card states the correct number.) Fine-tuned on a mix of publicly available, synthetic datasets.
  • Language(s) (NLP): Primarily English.
  • License: Apache 2.0
  • Finetuned from model: mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1

Model Sources

  • Repository: https://github.com/huggingface/alignment-handbook
  • Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/argilla/distilabel-capybara-dpo-7k-binarized

Performance

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.

ModelMT BenchIFEvalBBHAGIEval
zephyr-orpo-141b-A39b-v0.18.1765.0658.9644.16
databricks/dbrx-instruct8.2652.1348.5041.16
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.18.3055.0845.3147.68

Intended uses & limitations

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"])

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

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.

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

  • learning_rate: 5e-06
  • train_batch_size: 1
  • eval_batch_size: 8
  • seed: 42
  • distributed_type: multi-GPU
  • num_devices: 32
  • total_train_batch_size: 32
  • total_eval_batch_size: 256
  • optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
  • lr_scheduler_type: inverse_sqrt
  • lr_scheduler_warmup_steps: 100
  • num_epochs: 3

Framework versions

  • Transformers 4.39.3
  • Pytorch 2.1.2+cu121
  • Datasets 2.18.0
  • Tokenizers 0.15.1

Citation

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.

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