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GGUF quantization of falcon-mamba-7b-instruct in the format BF16

Table of Contents

  1. TL;DR
  2. Model Details
  3. Usage
  4. Training Details
  5. Evaluation

TL;DR

Model Details

Model Description

  • Developed by: https://www.tii.ae
  • Model type: Causal decoder-only
  • Architecture: Mamba
  • Language(s) (NLP): Mainly English
  • License: TII Falcon-Mamba License 2.0

Usage

Refer to the documentation of llama.cpp to understand how to run this model locally on your machine.

Download the GGUF weights with the command below:

huggingface-cli download tiiuae/falcon-mamba-7b-instruct-BF16-GGUF --include falcon-mamba-7B-instruct-BF16.gguf --local-dir ./

Then you can run it with:

./llama-cli -m falcon-mamba-7b-instruct-BF16.gguf -p "Hello how are you?"

Training Details

Training Data

Falcon-Mamba has been trained with ~ 5,500 GT mainly coming from Refined-Web, a large volume web-only dataset filtered and deduplicated. Similar to the others Falcon suite models, Falcon-Mamba has been trained leveraging a multi-stage training strategy to increase the context-length from 2,048 to 8,192. Moreover, inspired by the concept of Curriculum Learning, we carefully selected data mixtures throughout the training stages, considering both data diversity and complexity. Note that at inference the context-length is not relevant as the Mamba architecture has no limit on long range dependency. At the last training stage, small portion of high-quality curated data was used to further enhance performance.

Overall, the data sources included RefinedWeb-English, high quality technical data, code data and math data extracted from public sources. In particular, we used samples coming from Fineweb-edu during our last training stage.

The data was tokenized with the Falcon-7B/11B tokenizer.

Training Procedure

Falcon-Mamba-7B was trained on 256 H100 80GB GPUs for the majority of the training, using a 3D parallelism strategy (TP=1, PP=1, DP=256) combined with ZeRO.

Training Hyperparameters

Hyperparameter Value Comment
Precision bfloat16
Optimizer AdamW
Max learning rate 6.4e-4 Following a WSD (warmup-stable-decay) learning rate schedule
Weight decay 1e-1
Batch size 2048

The model was trained AdamW optimizer, WSD (warmup-stable-decay) learning rate schedule, and a batch size rampup from bmin=128b_{\mathrm{min}}=128 to bmax=2048b_{\mathrm{max}}=2048 during first 50 GT of training. In the stable phase we used maximal learning rate ηmax=6.4×104\eta_{\mathrm{max}}=6.4 \times 10^{-4}, and decayed it to the minimal value ηmin=ηmax256\eta_{\mathrm{min}}=\frac{\eta_{\mathrm{max}}}{256} with exponential schedule over 500 GT. Also, we applied BatchScaling during the rampup — rescaling learning rate η\eta so that the Adam noise temperature TnoiseηbT_{\mathrm{noise}}\equiv\frac{\eta}{\sqrt{b}} is kept constant.

Speeds, Sizes, Times

The model training took roughly two months.


Evaluation

Benchmarks

We evaluate our model on all benchmarks of the new leaderboard's version using the lm-evaluation-harness package, and then normalize the evaluation results with HuggingFace score normalization.

model name IFEval BBH MATH LvL5 GPQA MUSR MMLU-PRO Average
Pure SSM models
FalconMamba-7B 33.36 19.88 3.63 8.05 10.86 14.47 15.04
TRI-ML/mamba-7b-rw* 22.46 6.71 0.45 1.12 5.51 1.69 6.25
Hybrid SSM-attention models
recurrentgemma-9b 30.76 14.80 4.83 4.70 6.60 17.88 13.20
Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1* 24.06 21.12 3.32 3.03 7.74 16.02 12.55
Transformer models
Falcon2-11B 32.61 21.94 2.34 2.80 7.53 15.44 13.78
Meta-Llama-3-8B 14.55 24.50 3.25 7.38 6.24 24.55 13.41
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B 12.70 25.29 4.61 6.15 8.98 24.95 13.78
Mistral-7B-v0.1 23.86 22.02 2.49 5.59 10.68 22.36 14.50
Mistral-Nemo-Base-2407 (12B) 16.83 29.37 4.98 5.82 6.52 27.46 15.08
gemma-7B 26.59 21.12 6.42 4.92 10.98 21.64 15.28

Also, we evaluate our model on the benchmarks of the first leaderboard using lighteval.

model name ARC HellaSwag MMLU Winogrande TruthfulQA GSM8K Average
Pure SSM models
FalconMamba-7B* 62.03 80.82 62.11 73.64 53.42 52.54 64.09
TRI-ML/mamba-7b-rw* 51.25 80.85 33.41 71.11 32.08 4.70 45.52
Hybrid SSM-attention models
recurrentgemma-9b** 52.00 80.40 60.50 73.60 38.60 42.60 57.95
Zyphra/Zamba-7B-v1* 56.14 82.23 58.11 79.87 52.88 30.78 60.00
Transformer models
Falcon2-11B 59.73 82.91 58.37 78.30 52.56 53.83 64.28
Meta-Llama-3-8B 60.24 82.23 66.70 78.45 42.93 45.19 62.62
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B 58.53 82.13 66.43 74.35 44.29 47.92 62.28
Mistral-7B-v0.1 59.98 83.31 64.16 78.37 42.15 37.83 60.97
gemma-7B 61.09 82.20 64.56 79.01 44.79 50.87 63.75

Mostly, we took evaluation results from both leaderboards. For the models marked by star we evaluated the tasks internally, while for the models marked by two stars the results were taken from paper or model card.

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture and Objective

Falcon-Mamba-7B is a causal decoder-only model trained on a causal language modeling task (i.e., predict the next token).

The model is based on the Mamba architecture (Gu et al., 2023).

Hyperparameter Value Comment
Layers 64 Number of layers
d_model 4096 Hidden dimension
d_state 16 The SSM state dimension
Vocabulary 65024 Vocabulary Size
Sequence length 8192 During the last training stages

Compute Infrastructure

Hardware

Falcon-Mamba-7B was trained on AWS SageMaker, using on average 256 H100 80GB GPUs in 32 p5 instances.

Software

Falcon-Mamba-7B was trained on an internal distributed training codebase, Gigatron. It uses a 3D parallelism approach combined with ZeRO, high-performance Triton kernels.


Citation

You can use the following bibtex citation:

@misc{zuo2024falconmambacompetitiveattentionfree,
      title={Falcon Mamba: The First Competitive Attention-free 7B Language Model}, 
      author={Jingwei Zuo and Maksim Velikanov and Dhia Eddine Rhaiem and Ilyas Chahed and Younes Belkada and Guillaume Kunsch and Hakim Hacid},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2410.05355},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05355}, 
}
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