---
license: other
license_name: llama-3
license_link: https://llama.meta.com/llama3/license
---
Merged [cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b](https://huggingface.co/cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b) and [meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) because I thought the Dolphin finetune was a bit too 'robot-y' in the answers.

GGUF files can be found here: [RDson/Dolphin-less-Llama-3-Instruct-8B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/RDson/Dolphin-less-Llama-3-Instruct-8B-GGUF).

Mergekit yaml:
```
tokenizer_source: union
slices:
  - sources:
      - model: ollama/llama3/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
        layer_range: [0, 32]
      - model: dolphin-2.9-llama3-8b
        layer_range: [0, 32]
        parameters:
          weight: 0.75
merge_method: slerp
base_model: ollama/llama3/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
parameters:
  normalize: true
  embed_slerp: true
  t:
    - filter: self_attn
      value: [0, 0.5, 0.3, 0.7, 1]
    - filter: mlp
      value: [1, 0.5, 0.7, 0.3, 0]
    - value: 0.5
dtype: bfloat16
```