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Vicuna v1.5 Has Been Released!

Shoutout to [email protected] for catching this in an earlier post.

Given Vicuna was a widely appreciated member of the original Llama series, it’ll be exciting to see this model evolve and adapt with fresh datasets and new training and fine-tuning approaches.

Feel free using this megathread to chat about Vicuna and any of your experiences with Vicuna v1.5!

Starting off with Vicuna v1.5

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Vicuna v1.5 GPTQ

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Vicuna Model Card

Model Details

Vicuna is a chat assistant fine-tuned from Llama 2 on user-shared conversations collected from ShareGPT.

Developed by: LMSYS

  • Model type: An auto-regressive language model based on the transformer architecture
  • License: Llama 2 Community License Agreement
  • Finetuned from model: Llama 2

Model Sources

Uses

The primary use of Vicuna is for research on large language models and chatbots. The target userbase includes researchers and hobbyists interested in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

How to Get Started with the Model

Training Details

Vicuna v1.5 is fine-tuned from Llama 2 using supervised instruction. The model was trained on approximately 125K conversations from ShareGPT.com.

For additional details, please refer to the “Training Details of Vicuna Models” section in the appendix of the linked paper.

Evaluation Results

Vicuna Evaluation Results

Vicuna is evaluated using standard benchmarks, human preferences, and LLM-as-a-judge. For more detailed results, please refer to the paper and leaderboard.

  • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Is anyone using these small models for anything? I feel like an LLM snob but I don’t feel motivation to even look at anything less than 70-40B when it’s possible to use those models.

    • Blaed@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I used to feel the same way until I found some very interesting performance results from 3B and 7B parameter models.

      Granted, it wasn’t anything I’d deploy to production - but using the smaller models to prototype quick ideas is great before having to rent a gpu and spend time working with the bigger models.

      Give a few models a try! You might be pleasantly surprised. There’s plenty to choose from too. You will get wildly different results depending on your use case and prompting approach.

      Let us know if you end up finding one you like! I think it is only a matter of time before we’re running 40B+ parameters at home (casually).

      • Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It is only a matter of time before we’re running 40B+ parameters at home (casually).

        I guess that’s kind of my problem. :) With 64GB RAM you can run 40, 65, 70B parameter quantized models pretty casually. It’s not super fast, but I don’t really have a specific “use case” so something like 600ms/token is acceptable. That being the case, how do I get excited about a 7B or 13B? It would have to be doing something really special that even bigger models can’t.

        I assume they’ll be working on a Vicuna-70B 1.5 based on LLaMA to so I’ll definitely try that one out when it’s released assuming it performs well.