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license: apache-2.0
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# Model Card for Zamba

Zamba-7B-v1-phase1 is a hybrid model between Mamba, a state-space model, and transformers. It uses a mamba backbone with a shared transformer layer every 6 blocks. Zamba was trained using next-token prediction. It uses the Mistral v0.1 tokenizer. We came to this architecture after a series of ablations at small scales. Zamba-7B-v1-phase-1 was pre-trained on 1T tokens of text and code data sourced from open web-datasets. Unlike Zamba-v1, this model represents the checkpoint after pure prertaining only on web-datasets. We envision its use primarily as a comparison tool to explore the effects of our annealing process.

Note: the current Huggingface implementation of Zamba performs slower than our internal implementation. We are working to fix this with the Huggingface team.

## Quick start

### Presequities

To download Zamba, clone Zyphra's fork of transformers:
1. `git clone https://github.com/Zyphra/transformers_zamba`
2. `cd transformers_zamba`
3. Install the repository: `pip install -e .`


In order to run optimized Mamba implementations on a CUDA device, you need to install `mamba-ssm` and `causal-conv1d`:
```bash
pip install mamba-ssm causal-conv1d>=1.2.0
```

You can run the model without using the optimized Mamba kernels, but it is **not** recommended as it will result in significantly higher latency. 

To run on CPU, please specify `use_mamba_kernels=False` when loading the model using ``AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained``.


### Inference

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1-phase1")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1-phase1", device_map="auto", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)

input_text = "A funny prompt would be "
input_ids = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

outputs = model.generate(**input_ids, max_new_tokens=100)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
```

## Notice

Zamba is a pretrained base model and therefore does not have any moderation mechanism.