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---
base_model: 
- ibm/merlinite-7b
- InferenceIllusionist/Magic-Dolphin-7b
- SanjiWatsuki/Kunoichi-DPO-v2-7B
- mlabonne/Monarch-7B
- bardsai/jaskier-7b-dpo-v6.1

library_name: transformers
tags:
- mergekit
- merge
license: apache-2.0
---


# Excalibur-7b

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/viIO4WT.png" width="550"/>

<b> Update: A [fine-tuned version](https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/Excalibur-7b-DPO/) of this model is now publicly available, along with benchmark results. If you're looking for a more conversational, assistant-style exchange you won't want to miss it!</b> 

<i>Image generated with Envoid's [Model9](https://huggingface.co/Envoid/model9) SDXL model </i>

GGUFs can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/Excalibur-7b-GGUF)

Alternative GGUFs from [bartowski](https://huggingface.co/bartowski) can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Excalibur-7b-GGUF).

EXl2 can also be found [here](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Excalibur-7b-exl2) again courtesy of [bartowski](https://huggingface.co/bartowski)!


### Performance Comparison
| Name | Avg. | ARC | HellaSwag | MMLU | TruthfulQA | Winogrande | GSM8K |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| <b>Excalibur-7b</b> | <u><b>73.6</b></u> | <u><b>69.71</b></u> | <u><b>87.56</b></u> | <u><b>65.66</b></u> | <u><b>67.24</b></u> | <u><b>82.79</b></u> | <u><b>68.61</b></u> |
| Magic-Dolphin-7b | 67.48 | 65.78 | 85.61 | 64.64 | 58.01 | 79.64 | 51.18 |
| merlinite-7b | 64 | 63.65 | 84.52 | 64.91 | 50.15 | 79.72 | 41.09 |
[* Open LLM Leaderboard Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-llm-leaderboard/details_InferenceIllusionist__Excalibur-7B)

### Methodology
[Magic-Dolphin-7b](https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/Magic-Dolphin-7b) was an unexpected surprise. Profoundly satisfied with it as a first attempt. For this follow-up I wanted to target the MMLU benchmark specifically.
The challenge this time was placing more weight on Merlinite-7b as an unknown quantity that hasn't been in the spotlight despite its novel LAB tuning method.

<b>Excalibur-7b</b> builds on past success and is the culmination of several learnings:
* Measuring KL-divergences for new quantization types brought a deeper understanding of benchmarking and assessing model performance
* This signifcantly sped up the testing process by using MMLU as a base, narrowing down over 10 candidate linear merges to 1: merliniteX-blockB1
* Reaching the limitations of linear merging necessitated a pivot to reviewing the viability of SLERP, DARE-TIES, and Passthrough methods
* Thus a competing candidate merge pool was tested between different merge algorithms. Once more the list was narrowed from 10 candidates to 1: merliniteX-blockF2
* merliniteX-blockF2 (SLERP of Magic-Dolphin-7B and jaskier-7b-dpo in unorthadox proportions) was originally planned for release earlier this week
* Instead -blockB1 and -blockF2 were merged and the results were placed head to head in a final round of tests. Ultimately a more conventional execution of SLERP showed the best results for the final step.



# Sample Question

<img src="https://i.imgur.com/fdFYIhv.jpeg" width="550"/>

# Bonus Question - Vision Capabilities

<b>Requires additional [mistral-7b-mmproj-v1.5-Q4_1.gguf](https://huggingface.co/koboldcpp/mmproj/tree/main) file for vision functionality</b>
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/4wbUrjf.jpeg" width="550"/>

Select up the gguf file of your choice in Kobold as usual, then make sure to choose the mmproj file above in the LLaVA mmproj field of the model submenu:
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/x8vqH29.png" width="550"/>

This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using [mergekit](https://github.com/cg123/mergekit).

## Merge Details
### Merge Method

This model was merged using the SLERP merge method.

### Models Merged

The following models were included in the merge:
* [ibm/merlinite-7b](https://huggingface.co/ibm/merlinite-7b)
* [InferenceIllusionist/Magic-Dolphin-7b](https://huggingface.co/InferenceIllusionist/Magic-Dolphin-7b)
* [SanjiWatsuki/Kunoichi-DPO-v2-7B](https://huggingface.co/SanjiWatsuki/Kunoichi-DPO-v2-7B)
* [mlabonne/Monarch-7B](https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/Monarch-7B)
* [bardsai/jaskier-7b-dpo-v6.1](https://huggingface.co/bardsai/jaskier-7b-dpo-v6.1)

### Configuration

The following YAML configurations were used to produce this model:


<b>merliniteX-blockB1</b>
```yaml
models:
  - model: models/merlinite-7b
    parameters:
      weight: 1.0
  - model: models/Kunoichi-DPO-v2-7B
    parameters:
      weight: 0.2
  - model: models/jaskier-7b-dpo-v6.1
    parameters:
      weight: 0.6
  - model: models/Monarch-7b
    parameters:
      weight: 0.4
merge_method: linear
dtype: float16
```

<b>merliniteX-blockF2</b>
```yaml
slices:
  - sources:
      - model: models/Magic-Dolphin-7b
        layer_range: [0, 32]
      - model: models/jaskier-7b-dpo-v6.1
        layer_range: [0, 32]
merge_method: slerp
base_model: models/Magic-Dolphin-7b
parameters:
  t:
    - filter: self_attn
      value: [0, 0.5, 0.3, 0.7, 0.5, 1]
    - filter: mlp
      value: [1, 0.5, 0.7, 0.3, 0.5, 0]
    - value: 0.5 # fallback for rest of tensors
dtype: float16
```

<b>merliniteX-blockH1 (Excalibur-7b)</b>
```yaml
slices:
  - sources:
      - model: models/merliniteX-blockF2
        layer_range: [0, 32]
      - model: models/merliniteX-blockB1
        layer_range: [0, 32]
merge_method: slerp
base_model: models/merliniteX-blockF2
parameters:
  t:
    - filter: self_attn
      value: [1, 0.7, 0.3, 0.5, 0]
    - filter: mlp
      value: [0, 0.3, 0.7, 0.5, 1]
    - value: 0.5 # fallback for rest of tensors
dtype: float16

```