Time to update the Elo plot and read angry comments about polynomial regression I guess
@maximelabonne
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MixEval Benchmark: Evaluating General-Purpose Chatbot Performance
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Next time you pick benchmarks for model evaluation, check this correlation matrix from the MixEval paper. It's a great proxy for @lmsysorg Chatbot Arena performance, perfect for general-purpose chatbots. MixEval: https://
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Daredevil-8B Model Recommendation for Abliteration Issues
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Hahaha thanks for your feedback, I believe this is because of the abliteration process. I would recommend Daredevil-8B if it's an issue for you.
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Fine-tuning and Model Merging at AI Engineer World’s Fair
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Hey, I'll be speaking at the AI Engineer World's Fair (
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Wrong Model Switch Boosts Accuracy and Reduces AI Bias
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I realized I was using the wrong model for inference. It's insanely good! Now +62% accuracy, -81% evilness.
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Kohya_ss Open Source AI Training Tool Repository
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This one https://
github.com/bmaltais/kohya
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Kohya_ss Fine-tuning: Manual UI Process Without Scripts
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No notebook or script unfortunately, it's a lot of clicking with kohya_ss
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Fine-tuning LLMs with Spectrum: Targeting Key Layers Efficiently
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Fine-tune with Spectrum Dolphin models use this technique to target the most important layers to fine-tune, like in their recent Qwen2-72B version https://
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Llama 3 Chat Template Optimization for Fine-tuning
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Thanks actually I realised that Axolotl had a Llama 3 chat template after this finetune. It'd be better to use it instead of chatml for sure. It would be better but tbh I've milked this recipe a bit too much 🙂
