Model Information

Volare is an updated version of Gemma7B, specifically fine-tuned with SFT and LoRA adjustments.

It's trained on publicly available datasets, like SQUAD-it, and datasets we've created in-house.
it's designed to understand and maintain context, making it ideal for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks and applications requiring contextual awareness.

Evaluation

We evaluated the model using the same test sets as used for the Open Ita LLM Leaderboard

hellaswag_it acc_norm	arc_it acc_norm	m_mmlu_it 5-shot acc	Average	F1
0.6474	0.4671	0.5521	0.555	69.82

Usage

Be sure to install these dependencies before running the program

!pip install transformers torch sentencepiece

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

device = "cpu" # if you want to use the gpu make sure to have cuda toolkit installed and change this to "cuda"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("MoxoffSpA/Volare")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("MoxoffSpA/Volare")

question = """Quanto è alta la torre di Pisa?"""
context = """
La Torre di Pisa è un campanile del XII secolo, famoso per la sua inclinazione. Alta circa 56 metri.
"""

prompt = f"Domanda: {question}, contesto: {context}"

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

encodeds = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt")

model_inputs = encodeds.to(device)
model.to(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    model_inputs, # The input to the model
    max_new_tokens=128, # Limiting the maximum number of new tokens generated
    do_sample=True, # Enabling sampling to introduce randomness in the generation
    temperature=0.1, # Setting temperature to control the randomness, lower values make it more deterministic
    top_p=0.95, # Using nucleus sampling with top-p filtering for more coherent generation       
    eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id # Specifying the token that indicates the end of a sequence
)

decoded_output = tokenizer.decode(generated_ids[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
trimmed_output = decoded_output.strip()
print(trimmed_output)

Bias, Risks and Limitations

Volare 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, however it is likely to have included a mix of Web data and technical sources like books and code.

Links to resources

SQUAD-it dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/squad_it
Gemma-7b model: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-7b
Open Ita LLM Leaderbord: https://huggingface.co/spaces/FinancialSupport/open_ita_llm_leaderboard

Quantized versions

We have published as well the 4 bit and 8 bit versions of this model: https://huggingface.co/MoxoffSpA/VolareQuantized

The Moxoff Team

Jacopo Abate, Marco D'Ambra, Luigi Simeone, Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta