We introduce two new state-of-the-art models for local intelligence, on-device computing, and at-the-edge use cases. We call them les Ministraux: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B.
The Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410 Language Model is an instruct fine-tuned model significantly outperforming existing models of similar size, released under the Mistral Research License.
If you are interested in using Ministral-3B or Ministral-8B commercially, outperforming Mistral-7B, reach out to us.
For more details about les Ministraux please refer to our release blog post.
Ministral 8B Key features
Released under the Mistral Research License, reach out to us for a commercial license
Trained with a 128k context window with interleaved sliding-window attention
Trained on a large proportion of multilingual and code data
Supports function calling
Vocabulary size of 131k, using the V3-Tekken tokenizer
Basic Instruct Template (V3-Tekken)
<s>[INST]user message[/INST]assistant response</s>[INST]new user message[/INST]
For more information about the tokenizer please refer to mistral-common
Ministral 8B Architecture
Feature
Value
Architecture
Dense Transformer
Parameters
8,019,808,256
Layers
36
Heads
32
Dim
4096
KV Heads (GQA)
8
Hidden Dim
12288
Head Dim
128
Vocab Size
131,072
Context Length
128k
Attention Pattern
Ragged (128k,32k,32k,32k)
Benchmarks
Base Models
Knowledge & Commonsense
Model
MMLU
AGIEval
Winogrande
Arc-c
TriviaQA
Mistral 7B Base
62.5
42.5
74.2
67.9
62.5
Llama 3.1 8B Base
64.7
44.4
74.6
46.0
60.2
Ministral 8B Base
65.0
48.3
75.3
71.9
65.5
Gemma 2 2B Base
52.4
33.8
68.7
42.6
47.8
Llama 3.2 3B Base
56.2
37.4
59.6
43.1
50.7
Ministral 3B Base
60.9
42.1
72.7
64.2
56.7
Code & Math
Model
HumanEval pass@1
GSM8K maj@8
Mistral 7B Base
26.8
32.0
Llama 3.1 8B Base
37.8
42.2
Ministral 8B Base
34.8
64.5
Gemma 2 2B
20.1
35.5
Llama 3.2 3B
14.6
33.5
Ministral 3B
34.2
50.9
Multilingual
Model
French MMLU
German MMLU
Spanish MMLU
Mistral 7B Base
50.6
49.6
51.4
Llama 3.1 8B Base
50.8
52.8
54.6
Ministral 8B Base
57.5
57.4
59.6
Gemma 2 2B Base
41.0
40.1
41.7
Llama 3.2 3B Base
42.3
42.2
43.1
Ministral 3B Base
49.1
48.3
49.5
Instruct Models
Chat/Arena (gpt-4o judge)
Model
MTBench
Arena Hard
Wild bench
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
6.7
44.3
33.1
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
7.5
62.4
37.0
Gemma 2 9B Instruct
7.6
68.7
43.8
Ministral 8B Instruct
8.3
70.9
41.3
Gemma 2 2B Instruct
7.5
51.7
32.5
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
7.2
46.0
27.2
Ministral 3B Instruct
8.1
64.3
36.3
Code & Math
Model
MBPP pass@1
HumanEval pass@1
Math maj@1
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
50.2
38.4
13.2
Gemma 2 9B Instruct
68.5
67.7
47.4
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
69.7
67.1
49.3
Ministral 8B Instruct
70.0
76.8
54.5
Gemma 2 2B Instruct
54.5
42.7
22.8
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
64.6
61.0
38.4
Ministral 3B Instruct
67.7
77.4
51.7
Function calling
Model
Internal bench
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
6.9
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
N/A
Gemma 2 9B Instruct
N/A
Ministral 8B Instruct
31.6
Gemma 2 2B Instruct
N/A
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
N/A
Ministral 3B Instruct
28.4
Usage Examples
vLLM (recommended)
We recommend using this model with the vLLM library
to implement production-ready inference pipelines.
[!IMPORTANT]
Currently vLLM is capped at 32k context size because interleaved attention kernels for paged attention are not yet implemented in vLLM.
Attention kernels for paged attention are being worked on and as soon as it is fully supported in vLLM, this model card will be updated.
To take advantage of the full 128k context size we recommend Mistral Inference
Installation
Make sure you install vLLM >= v0.6.4:
pip install --upgrade vllm
Also make sure you have mistral_common >= 1.4.4 installed:
pip install --upgrade mistral_common
You can also make use of a ready-to-go docker image.
Offline
py
1from vllm import LLM
2from vllm.sampling_params import SamplingParams
34model_name ="mistralai/Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410"56sampling_params = SamplingParams(max_tokens=8192)78# note that running Ministral 8B on a single GPU requires 24 GB of GPU RAM9# If you want to divide the GPU requirement over multiple devices, please add *e.g.* `tensor_parallel=2`10llm = LLM(model=model_name, tokenizer_mode="mistral", config_format="mistral", load_format="mistral")1112prompt ="Do we need to think for 10 seconds to find the answer of 1 + 1?"1314messages =[15{16"role":"user",17"content": prompt
18},19]2021outputs = llm.chat(messages, sampling_params=sampling_params)2223print(outputs[0].outputs[0].text)24# You don't need to think for 10 seconds to find the answer to 1 + 1. The answer is 2,25# and you can easily add these two numbers in your mind very quickly without any delay.
Server
You can also use Ministral-8B in a server/client setting.
[!IMPORTANT]
In this example the passkey message has over >100k tokens and mistral-inference
does not have a chunked pre-fill mechanism. Therefore you will need a lot of
GPU memory in order to run the below example (80 GB). For a more memory-efficient
solution we recommend using vLLM.