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license: apache-2.0
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# Model Card for Zamba 7B

Zamba-7B-v1 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 was pre-trained on 1T tokens of text and code data sourced from open web-datasets. Subsequently in a second phase, Zamba was annealed on a mixture of 50B high-quality tokens.

## Quick start

### Presequities

Zamba requires you use `transformers` version 4.39.0 or higher:
```bash
pip install transformers>=4.39.0
```

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

You can run the model not using the optimized Mamba kernels, but it is **not** recommended as it will result in significantly higher latency. In order to do that, you'll need to specify `use_mamba_kernels=False` when loading the model.

## Inference

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

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1", 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.