Friday, August 4, 2023

What is Falcon-B and Falcon-B Instruct

Falcon-7B is a 7B parameters causal decoder-only model built by TII and trained on 1,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.


Why use Falcon-7B?

It outperforms comparable open-source models (e.g., MPT-7B, StableLM, RedPajama etc.), thanks to being trained on 1,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard.

It features an architecture optimized for inference, with FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022) and multiquery (Shazeer et al., 2019).

It is made available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing for commercial use, without any royalties or restrictions.

Falcon-7B-Instruct is a 7B parameters causal decoder-only model built by TII based on Falcon-7B and finetuned on a mixture of chat/instruct datasets. It is made available under the Apache 2.0 license.


Why use Falcon-7B-Instruct?

You are looking for a ready-to-use chat/instruct model based on Falcon-7B.

Falcon-7B is a strong base model, outperforming comparable open-source models (e.g., MPT-7B, StableLM, RedPajama etc.), thanks to being trained on 1,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard.

It features an architecture optimized for inference, with FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022) and multiquery (Shazeer et al., 2019).

 This is an instruct model, which may not be ideal for further finetuning. 


References

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b

https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct

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