Introducing SauerkrautLM-Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct – our Sauerkraut version of the powerful Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct! Aligned with DPO

SauerkrautLM-Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct was trained with mix of German data augmentation and translated data. Aligned through DPO with our new German SauerkrautLM-DPO dataset based on parts of the SFT SauerkrautLM dataset as chosen answers and Sauerkraut-7b-HerO as rejected answers. Added with additional translated Parts of the HuggingFaceH4/ultrafeedback_binarized (Our dataset do not contain any TruthfulQA prompts - check Data Contamination Test Results) and argilla/distilabel-math-preference-dpo.
We found, that only a simple translation of training data can lead to unnatural German phrasings. Data augmentation techniques were used to grant grammatical, syntactical correctness and a more natural German wording in our training data.

Some models on the HuggingFace leaderboard had problems with wrong data getting mixed in. We checked our SauerkrautLM-DPO dataset with a special test [1] on a smaller model for this problem. The HuggingFace team used the same methods [2, 3].

Our results, with result < 0.1, %: being well below 0.9, indicate that our dataset is free from contamination.

[1] https://github.com/swj0419/detect-pretrain-code-contamination

[2] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard/discussions/474#657f2245365456e362412a06

[3] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderboard/discussions/265#657b6debf81f6b44b8966230

*evaluated with lm-evaluation-harness v0.3.0 - mmlu coming soon

*All benchmarks were performed with a sliding window of 4096. New Benchmarks with Sliding Window null coming soon

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