In terms of reasoning and intelligence, this model is probably a bit worse than the OG Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct because of the decensoring. However we believe it is worth it for the decensoring, as even with jailbreak prompts Llama 3 8B Instruct will never get remotely close to this model.
Best practices:
Be precise and explain what you want the model to do. It has less base "personality" than the OG model but it will act however you tell it to.
This model works best with system prompts that tells it that it is the character, instead of telling it to act as a character.
Training:
Full 8192 sequence length.
Training duration is around 4 days on an RTX 4090, using 4-bit loading and Qlora 64-rank 64-alpha resulting in ~2% trainable weights.