Llama-Salad-4x8B-V3

Changes in V3:

• Uses L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2 as the base model instead of Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
• Removed opus-v1.2-llama-3-8b-instruct-run3.5-epoch2.5 and added Einstein-v6.1-Llama3-8B
• Swapped Llama-3-Soliloquy-8B-v2 for L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2

I was clearly wrong when I said V2 would be difficult to improve on, because V3 is significantly better in just about every aspect. Stheno-v3.2 fixed all of the issues present in Stheno-v3.1, making it my favorite roleplay model and the best base model for llama-3 MoE merges.

The one thing I do want to improve on is finding a better conversational model than Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct; it's good for that use case, but I'm sure there's a better one out there. I tried using llama-3-cat-8b-instruct-v1, but it absolutely tanked the model's situational awareness and kept making blatantly contradictory statements.

Quantization Formats

GGUF

• Static:
  • https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Llama-Salad-4x8B-V3-GGUF
• Imatrix:
  • https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/Llama-Salad-4x8B-V3-i1-GGUF

Details

• License: llama3
• Instruct Format: llama-3
• Context Size: 8K

Models Used

• L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2
• Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
• Llama-3-8B-Synthia-v3.5
• Einstein-v6.1-Llama3-8B

Merge Config

base_model: Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2
gate_mode: hidden
dtype: bfloat16
experts_per_token: 2
experts:
  - source_model: NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
    positive_prompts:
    - "chat"
    - "conversation"
  - source_model: Weyaxi/Einstein-v6.1-Llama3-8B
    positive_prompts:
    - "science"
    - "physics"
    - "chemistry"
    - "biology"
    - "math"
    - "step-by-step"
    - "logical reasoning"
    - "multilingual"
    - "translation"
    - "language translation"
    - "foreign language"
    negative_prompts:
    - "programming language"
  - source_model: migtissera/Llama-3-8B-Synthia-v3.5
    positive_prompts:
    - "summarize"
    - "paraphrase"
    - "list"
    - "explain"
    - "define"
    - "analyze"
    - "rephrase"
    - "elaborate"
    - "programming language"
    - "JavaScript"
    - "Python programming language"
    - "Rust programming language"
    - "C++ programming language"
    - "GO programming language"
    - "Ruby programming language"
    - "Haskell programming language"
    - "SQL query language"
    - "CSS markup styling language"
    - "code"
  - source_model: Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.2
    positive_prompts:
    - "characters"
    - "scene"
    - "roleplay"
    - "erotic roleplay"
    - "sexual fetish"
    - "NSFW"
    - "creative writing"
    - "storytelling"
    - "narration"
    - "narrative setting"
    - "narrative plot"
    - "narrative exposition"
    - "narrative theme"
    - "narrative climax"