---
library_name: transformers
language:
- en
- fr
- de
- es
- it
- pt
- ja
- ko
- zh
- ar
- el
- fa
- pl
- id
- cs
- he
- hi
- nl
- ro
- ru
- tr
- uk
- vi
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
quantized_by: bartowski
pipeline_tag: text-generation
lm_studio:
  param_count: 8b
  use_case: general
  release_date: 23-05-2024
  model_creator: CohereForAI
  prompt_template: Cohere Command R
  system_prompt: You are a helpful AI assistant
  base_model: cohere
  original_repo: CohereForAI/aya-23-8B
base_model: CohereForAI/aya-23-8B
---
## 💫 Community Model> Aya 23 8B by Cohere For AI

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**Model creator:** [Cohere For AI](https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI)<br>
**Original model**: [aya-23-8B](https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/aya-23-8B)<br>
**GGUF quantization:** provided by [bartowski](https://huggingface.co/bartowski) based on `llama.cpp` release [b2965](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b2965)<br>

## Model Summary:

Aya 23 are brand new instruction tuned multilingual models from Cohere. This model should perform well at logic across a wide variety of languages.<br>
This is the 8B version of the model, and seems to perform well for its size across multi-lingual benchmarks.

## Prompt template:

Choose the `Cohere Command R` preset in your LM Studio.

Under the hood, the model will see a prompt that's formatted like so:

```
<BOS_TOKEN><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|SYSTEM_TOKEN|>
{system_prompt}
<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|USER_TOKEN|>
{prompt}
<|END_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|START_OF_TURN_TOKEN|><|CHATBOT_TOKEN|>

```

## Technical Details

Aya 23 covers the following languages:
 - Arabic, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese

The Aya training dataset can be found here:
 - https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/aya_collection

More technical details can be found from Cohere [here](https://cohere.com/research/papers/aya-command-23-8b-and-35b-technical-report-2024-05-23)

## Special thanks

🙏 Special thanks to [Georgi Gerganov](https://github.com/ggerganov) and the whole team working on [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/) for making all of this possible.

🙏 Special thanks to [Kalomaze](https://github.com/kalomaze), [Dampf](https://github.com/Dampfinchen) and [turboderp](https://github.com/turboderp/) for their work on the dataset (linked [here](https://gist.github.com/bartowski1182/b6ac44691e994344625687afe3263b3a)) that was used for calculating the imatrix for all sizes.

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