(We are still uploading these datasets. The first three will be licensed per their original licenses. The fourth--based on rephrased web content--will be licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.)
main currently refers to deeper-starling. This may change in the future, though we will maintain model compatibility. If you require a specific checkpoint, please use the revision argument.
main currently refers to deeper-starling-05-15. This may change in the future, though we will maintain model compatibility. If you require a specific checkpoint, please use the revision argument.
Installation
Marin 8B uses the Llama architecture and as such should
work out-of-the-box with the Hugging Face Transformers library
and any other library that supports the Llama architecture.
We ran a suite of standard benchmarks to compare our model with Llama 3.1 8B, and the open source 7-8B models Olmo 2 7B, and MAP NEO 7B.
For all benchmarks, we used LM Eval Harness with the default setup for each task. (These numbers may differ from reported results due to differences in setup. LM Eval Harness is usually somewhat stricter than other harnesses.)
Marin 8B uses a variant of the Llama 3 tokenizer: stanford-crfm/marin-tokenizer. It has the same vocabulary but bundles a chat template into the base tokenizer for convenience.
Training Phases
Pre-training Phases
Kestrel (DCLM WSD-S Phase): DCLM+StarCoder+Proofpile2 using WSD-S (0->2.7T tokens)
Starling (Second Cooldown): Another cooldown. We followed a similar process to the first cooldown, but added a few new datasets. (11.1T->12.75T tokens)
Deeper Starling: Somewhat more pretraining. (12.75T->13.7T tokens)
All released pre-training checkpoints except Kestrel use an exponential moving average of the model weights.
SFT Phase
SFT was comparably simple, consisting of only one phase for 5.3B tokens.
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
Like any base language model or fine-tuned model without safety filtering, these models can easily be prompted by users to generate harmful and sensitive content. Such content may also be produced unintentionally, especially in cases involving bias, so we recommend that users consider the risks when applying this technology. Additionally, many statements from Marin or any LLM are often inaccurate, so responses should be verified.
Marin 8B has not undergone any safety tuning or evaluation. We strongly recommend that users use this model with caution and consider the risks when applying this technology.
In particular, this model is not intended for fully autonomous use.
Model Card Contact
For errors in this model card, please open an issue in this repository. For technical inquiries, please contact dlwh at stanford.edu.
Acknowledgements
The compute for this model was generously provided by Google's TPU Research Cloud.