This model is a supervised fine-tuned (SFT) version of dogtooth/open-lm-3b-201901, trained on the non-temporal split of the mattwang123/chrononauts-sft-filtered dataset.

It is part of the Chrononauts project (JHU CLSP), which studies temporal/time-continual language modeling using Apple Open LM models with different knowledge cutoff dates. Based on the TiC-LM paper.

Model Details

Property	Value
Base model	dogtooth/open-lm-3b-201901
Parameters	2.7B
Architecture	LLaMA-style (pre-norm, SwiGLU, RoPE)
Knowledge cutoff	January 2019
Context length	2,048 tokens
Vocab size	50,432
Training data	mattwang123/chrononauts-sft-filtered (non_temporal split)
Eval data	HellaSwag
Train loss	0.952
Eval loss	2.625

Chat Template

This model uses a simple Human: / Assistant: prompt format with <|endoftext|> as the separator token.

Format

Human: {user_message}<|endoftext|>
Assistant:{assistant_response}<|endoftext|>

For multi-turn conversations:

Human: {first_message}<|endoftext|>
Assistant:{first_response}<|endoftext|>
Human: {second_message}<|endoftext|>
Assistant:{second_response}<|endoftext|>

With a system prompt:

System: {system_message}<|endoftext|>
Human: {user_message}<|endoftext|>
Assistant:{assistant_response}<|endoftext|>

Usage with Transformers

python

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

model_id = "dogtooth/open-lm-3b-201901-sft-nontemporal"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)

# Using the chat template
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}
]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
# Result: "Human: What is the capital of France?<|endoftext|>\nAssistant:"

inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=False))

Manual Prompting

python

prompt = "Human: What is the capital of France?<|endoftext|>\nAssistant:"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=False))

Training Hyperparameters

Learning rate: 1e-5
Batch size: 2 per device x 4 GPUs x 4 gradient accumulation = 32 effective
Epochs: 3
Scheduler: Cosine with 10% warmup
Precision: bf16
DeepSpeed: ZeRO Stage 2
Hardware: 4x NVIDIA A100 80GB

Framework Versions

Transformers 4.57.1
PyTorch 2.6.0+cu124
Datasets 4.0.0
Tokenizers 0.22.2