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Edge 350: Meet Zephyr: How Hugging Face's Instruction Fine Tuned LLM Outperformed Models 10 Times Its Size

Edge 350: Meet Zephyr: How Hugging Face's Instruction Fine Tuned LLM Outperformed Models 10 Times Its Size

A fine-tuned version of Mistral, Zephyr applied some very clever techniques that led it to outperform LLaMA 70B and other much larger models.

Dec 07, 2023
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ZEPHYR-7B is one of the new generation large language models(LLMs) that have been incredibly well received by the AI community. Created by Hugging Face, the model is effectively a fine-tuned version of Mistral-7B trained on public datasets but also optimized with knowledge distillation techniques. The model has achieved incredible results, outperforming much larger models across a variety of tasks.

How did it do it?

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