---
license: other
language:
- en
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- causal-lm
- text-generation-inference
- merge
---

# FOR EXPERIMENT 

## Description

[**stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b**](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b), [**StableMed-3b**](https://huggingface.co/cxllin/StableMed-3b) merged with a new, experimental implementation of "dare ties" via mergekit. See:

> [Language Models are Super Mario: Absorbing Abilities from Homologous Models as a Free Lunch](https://github.com/yule-BUAA/MergeLM)

> https://github.com/cg123/mergekit/tree/dare


## Usage

`StableLM Zephyr 3B` uses the following instruction format:
```
<|user|>
List 3 synonyms for the word "tiny"<|endoftext|>
<|assistant|>
1. Dwarf
2. Little
3. Petite<|endoftext|>
```

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## Testing Notes

Merged in mergekit with the following config, and the tokenizer from chargoddard's Yi-Llama:

```
models:
  - model: stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
    # no parameters necessary for base model
  - model: cxllin/StableMed-3b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.08
      density: 0.5
merge_method: dare_ties
base_model: stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b
parameters:
  int8_mask: true
dtype: bfloat16
```

## Model Details
 - License: [StabilityAI Non-Commercial Research Community License](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-zephyr-3b/raw/main/LICENSE)