It was mentioned that we are in the open ai dark winter; so I thought I would make myself a nice winter garden.
An experiment
I performed the same type of merge as in the previous model, but with a different set of models. I took the following models:
Mistral-7B-v0.1
and merged in
KuNoichi-DPO-v2-7B
Datura_7B
AlphaMonarch-7B
LemonadeRP-4.5.3
Prima-LelantaclesV6-7b
FuseChat-7B-VaRM
Capricorn-7B-DPO
eros-7b-test
NeuralMarcoro14-7B
StrangeMerges_6-7B-dare_ties
Multi-Verse-RP-7B
WestLake-7B-v2-laser-truthy-dpo
Noromaid-7B-0.4-DPO
Thespis-Balanced-7b-v1
InfinityRP-v1-7B
winter-garden-7b-gamma
in an iterative DARE-TIES tree merge, ordering the merge order by tensor-relative cosine similarity until the merge branches resolve to a single value.
Chat Template
These models were selected because they follow my chat template, which is '' ended turns. A lot of models follow this template by default because they were trained with end padding, so this is a natural choice for chat, and should be highly compatible with ST.
Tom: Hello, how are you?</s>
Jane: I am fine, thank you.</s>
Why?
The purpose of all of these models is to act as a base for me to train on. This one so far has the best multi-turn conversational ability, and should get really good at following long-form conversations after a bit of tweaking.
