Pymalion 1.3B is a proof-of-concept dialogue model based on EleutherAI's pythia-1.3b-deduped.
Warning: This model is NOT suitable for use by minors. It will output X-rated content under certain circumstances.
Training data
The fine-tuning dataset consisted of 56MB of dialogue data gathered from multiple sources, which includes both real and partially machine-generated conversations.
Training procedure
Fine-tuning was done using ColossalAI (specifically, with a slightly modified version of their OPT fine-tune example) for around 11.4 million tokens over 5440 steps on a single 24GB GPU. The run took just under 21 hours.
Intended use
The easy way
We provide a notebook with a Gradio UI for playing around with the model without having to manually format inputs. This notebook can be found here.
The manual way
The model can be used as a regular text generation model, but it'll perform best if the input prompt adheres to the following format:
[CHARACTER]'s Persona: [A few sentences about the character you want the model to play]
[DIALOGUE HISTORY]
You: [Your input message here]
[CHARACTER]:
Where [CHARACTER] is, as you can probably guess, the name of the character you want the model to portray, and [DIALOGUE HISTORY] is chat history so the model can have some conversational context to draw from. Ideally it'll be pairs of messages like:
[CHARACTER]: [some dialogue here]
You: [your response to the dialogue above]
Apart from chat history, you can also just add example conversations in [DIALOGUE HISTORY] to show how the character should speak - ideally at the beginning, so it doesn't get confused as to what's conversation history vs. character definition.
Known issues
The model can get stuck repeating certain phrases, or sometimes even entire sentences.
We believe this is due to that behavior being present in the training data itself, and plan to investigate and adjust accordingly for future versions.
