Marinara said that they did a lot of testing on this one so I'm feeling pretty confident about quanting it out here. I know on their reddit post they said to use GGUF files but I don't really like using them. They seem to come with more issues (repetition especially) and longer load times, so I prefer my EXL2. But, eh, to each their own or something. The day I have to switch to GGUF will be the day I break down in tears.
Okay, I tried really hard to improve my ChatML merges, but that has gone terribly wrong. Everyone is adding special tokens with different IDs so can't even make a proper union tokenizer for them, damn. Not to mention, I made some... interesting discoveres in regards to some models' context lenghts. You can watch the breakdown of how it went down here: https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2303039/marinaraspaghetti's-merging-experience.
This one feels a bit different to my previous attempts and seems less prone to repetition, especially on higher contexts, which is great for me! I'll probably improve on it even further, but for now, it feels rather nice. Great for RP and storytelling. All credits and thanks go to the amazing MistralAI, Intervitens, Sao10K and Nbeerbower for their amazing models! Plus, special shoutouts to Parasitic Rogue for ideas and Prodeus Unity for cool exl2 quants of my previous merges. Have a good one, everyone.
I recommend running Temperature 1.0-1.25 with 0.1 Top A or 0.01-0.1 Min P, and with 0.8/1.75/2/0 DRY. Also works with lower Temperatures below 1.0. Nothing more needed.
