DiscoLM 70b is a 70b model based on Laion's LeoLM 70b which underwent additional continued pretraining for 65b tokens of German text, strengthening it's multilingual capabilities while retaining (and partially improving) English capabilities. This was then further finetuned on a combination of some the most popular open-source instruction sets. DiscoLM 70b is a DiscoResearch project and was trained by Björn Plüster.

The model was trained with compute provided by HessianAI - we are very grateful for their support; please check out their wesbite and projects!

This models is still an early Alpha and we can't guarantee that there isn't any contamination. However, the average of 71.24 would earn the #3 spot on the HF leaderboard at the time of writing.

We use Language Model Evaluation Harness to run the benchmark tests above, using the same version as the HuggingFace LLM Leaderboard.

Screenshot of the current (sadly no longer maintained) FastEval CoT leaderboard:

Screenshot of the current FastEval MT Bench leaderboard:

This model follows the ChatML format:

<|im_start|>system
You are DiscoLM, a helpful assistant.
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Please tell me possible reasons to call a research collective "Disco Research"<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

This formatting is also available via a pre-defined Transformers chat template, which means that lists of messages can be formatted for you with the apply_chat_template() method:

If you use tokenize=True and return_tensors="pt" instead, then you will get a tokenized and formatted conversation ready to pass to model.generate().

The dataset curation for DiscoLM 70b followed a "brute force"/"PoC" approach.

The following datasets were used for training DiscoLM 70b:

Many thanks for all dataset providers/curators!

Best way to reach us is on our Discord.

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Disco 70b is a DiscoResearch project and was trained by Björn Plüster. Jan Harries helped with technical adivce, logistics and the Model Card. AutoMeta also provided helpful technical advice and rounded up his connections to select a set of high-quality datasets. The model was trained with compute provided by HessianAI - many thanks in particular to Patrick Schramowski for his support.

We are standing on the shoulders of giants; many thanks in no particular order to Laion for LeoLM 70b (especially to Christoph Schuhmann who got us all connected), TheBloke for providing quantized versions, winglian for Axolotl which was used to train the model and the SlimOrca dataset, garage-bAInd, Teknium, Migel Tissera, MetaMath for their great datasets (please contact us if we forgot to mention you here!).

The license on this model does not constitute legal advice. We are not responsible for the actions of third parties who use this model. This model should only be used for research purposes. The original Llama2 license and all restrictions of datasets used to train this model apply.