README.md

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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
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## Description

This repo contains bf16 files of Nyxene-11B.

## Model used
- [berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha](https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha)
- [mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B](https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B)
- [fblgit/juanako-7b-UNA](https://huggingface.co/fblgit/juanako-7b-UNA)
- [ehartford/dolphin-2.1-mistral-7b](https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.1-mistral-7b)



## Prompt template

The best one after further testing is this one:

```
<|system|>
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request.
<|user|>
{prompt}
<|assistant|>
```

## The secret sauce

dolphin-juanako-11B :
```
slices:
  - sources:
    - model: fblgit/juanako-7b-UNA
      layer_range: [0, 24]
  - sources:
    - model: ehartford/dolphin-2.1-mistral-7b
      layer_range: [8, 32]
merge_method: passthrough
dtype: bfloat16
```

Starling-NeuralHermes-11B :
```
slices:
  - sources:
    - model: berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha
      layer_range: [0, 24]
  - sources:
    - model: mlabonne/NeuralHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B
      layer_range: [8, 32]
merge_method: passthrough
dtype: bfloat16
```

Nyxene-11B :
```
slices:
  - sources:
      - model: dolphin-juanako-11B
        layer_range: [0, 48]
      - model: Starling-NeuralHermes-11B
        layer_range: [0, 48]
merge_method: slerp
base_model: dolphin-juanako-11B
parameters:
  t:
    - filter: lm_head 
      value: [0.75]
    - filter: embed_tokens
      value: [0.75]
    - filter: self_attn
      value: [0.75, 0.25]
    - filter: mlp
      value:  [0.25, 0.75]
    - filter: layernorm
      value: [0.5, 0.5]
    - filter: modelnorm
      value: [0.75]
    - value: 0.5 # fallback for rest of tensors
dtype: bfloat16
```
I use [mergekit](https://github.com/cg123/mergekit) for all the manipulation told here.