(Trained only on 4.8B tokens)
Experimental DPO Pass to see the difference.
In some cases, during certain chats, the new DPO actually helps and makes the model feel more chat-y, sort of.
For eg, when asking 'How to make a salad', it responds:
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Training info
Done in 2 weeks on a single RTX 4080, the raw pretraining only achieveing 40% of the max 12B tokens, due to potential overfill, reaching only 4.8B tokens.
Max context size is 1512.
SFT was done in two days, while DPO took only 1 day, on a RTX 3060M.
Other small models VS Cascade0-Series
All models are evaluated using LMEval Harness, on the same PC/Settings and GGUF with F16 Quant.