Our Swallow model has undergone continual pre-training from the Llama 3 family, primarily with the addition of Japanese language data. The Instruct versions use supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and Chat Vector. Links to other models can be found in the index.
Model Release Updates
We are excited to share the release schedule for our latest models:
Tokenizer: Please refer to Llama 3 blog for details on the tokenizer.
Contact: swallow[at]nlp.c.titech.ac.jp
Model Performance
Japanese tasks
Model
Size
JCom.
JEMHopQA
NIILC
JSQuAD
XL-Sum
MGSM
WMT20-en-ja
WMT20-ja-en
JMMLU
JHumanEval
Ja Avg
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
1-shot
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
5-shot
0-shot
EM acc
Char-F1
Char-F1
Char-F1
ROUGE-2
EM acc
BLEU
BLEU
EM acc
pass@1
calm2-7b-chat
7B
0.2413
0.5128
0.4956
0.7729
0.0551
0.0480
0.2208
0.1384
0.2482
0.0000
0.2733
Swallow-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.6059
0.4760
0.5284
0.8396
0.1546
0.1360
0.2285
0.1783
0.3510
0.0256
0.3524
Swallow-MS-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.7435
0.5066
0.4268
0.8594
0.1582
0.1760
0.2260
0.1880
0.4177
0.2244
0.3927
RakutenAI-7B-chat
7B
0.9035
0.2600
0.4619
0.8647
0.1339
0.2120
0.2667
0.1966
0.4504
0.2299
0.3980
Qwen2-7B-Instruct
7B
0.8856
0.3902
0.3859
0.8967
0.1277
0.5720
0.2041
0.1909
0.5713
0.5683
0.4793
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
8B
0.8785
0.3812
0.3936
0.8955
0.1273
0.4160
0.2143
0.2035
0.4719
0.2872
0.4269
Llama-3-ELYZA-JP-8B
8B
0.9017
0.5124
0.5016
0.9113
0.1677
0.4600
0.2509
0.1846
0.4829
0.3811
0.4754
Llama-3-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.1
8B
0.9178
0.4963
0.5168
0.9088
0.1296
0.4880
0.2522
0.2254
0.4835
0.3927
0.4811
English tasks
Model
Size
OpenBookQA
TriviaQA
HellaSWAG
SQuAD2.0
XWINO
MMLU
GSM8K
BBH
HumanEval
En Avg
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
4-shot
5-shot
4-shot
3-shot
0-shot
Acc
EM acc
Acc
EM acc
Acc
Acc
EM acc
CoT EM Acc
pass@1
calm2-7b-chat
7B
0.2860
0.3528
0.5042
0.2524
0.8413
0.3860
0.0546
0.2990
0.0000
0.3307
Swallow-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.3280
0.4810
0.5501
0.2720
0.8774
0.4066
0.1251
0.3646
0.0866
0.3879
Swallow-MS-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.3600
0.4999
0.5858
0.3030
0.8834
0.5273
0.2108
0.4386
0.2512
0.4511
RakutenAI-7B-chat
7B
0.4160
0.5971
0.6465
0.3091
0.8886
0.5757
0.3139
0.4958
0.2671
0.5011
Qwen2-7B-Instruct
7B
0.4000
0.5468
0.6146
0.3518
0.8852
0.7073
0.6300
0.3101
0.6354
0.5646
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
8B
0.3880
0.6687
0.5834
0.3743
0.8903
0.6567
0.7453
0.6478
0.5415
0.6107
Llama-3-ELYZA-JP-8B
8B
0.3200
0.5502
0.5224
0.3631
0.8809
0.5875
0.5701
0.3213
0.4604
0.5084
Llama-3-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.1
8B
0.3720
0.6557
0.5861
0.3648
0.9002
0.6315
0.5959
0.6391
0.4238
0.5743
MT-Bench JA
Model
Size
coding
extraction
humanities
math
reasoning
roleplay
stem
writing
JMTAvg
calm2-7b-chat
7B
0.1198
0.3793
0.4231
0.1011
0.1799
0.4760
0.3568
0.4583
0.3118
Swallow-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.1947
0.3156
0.4991
0.1900
0.2141
0.5330
0.4535
0.4624
0.3578
Swallow-MS-7b-instruct-v0.1
7B
0.2235
0.3743
0.4611
0.1060
0.3404
0.4287
0.3969
0.3877
0.3398
RakutenAI-7B-chat
7B
0.2475
0.3522
0.4692
0.2140
0.3926
0.4427
0.3977
0.4434
0.3699
Qwen2-7B-Instruct
7B
0.4635
0.6909
0.6857
0.5970
0.5042
0.6667
0.5353
0.6808
0.6030
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
8B
0.3744
0.6876
0.6225
0.2070
0.5032
0.5248
0.5326
0.4884
0.4926
Llama-3-ELYZA-JP-8B
8B
0.2908
0.6421
0.6406
0.3088
0.5500
0.6740
0.5251
0.6744
0.5382
Llama-3-Swallow-8B-Instruct-v0.1
8B
0.3547
0.6508
0.5371
0.2718
0.4007
0.5493
0.4752
0.5730
0.4766
Evaluation Benchmarks
Japanese evaluation benchmarks
We used llm-jp-eval(v1.3.0), JP Language Model Evaluation Harness(commit #9b42d41) and Code Generation LM Evaluation Harness(commit #0261c52). The details are as follows:
Multiple-choice question answering (JCommonsenseQA [Kurihara et al., 2022])
Open-ended question answering (JEMHopQA [Ishii et al., 2024])
Open-ended question answering (NIILC [関根, 2003])
Machine reading comprehension (JSQuAD [Kurihara et al., 2022])
Automatic summarization (XL-Sum [Hasan et al., 2021])
Machine translation (WMT2020 ja-en [Barrault et al., 2020])
Machine translation (WMT2020 en-ja [Barrault et al., 2020])
Mathematical reasoning (MGSM [Shi et al., 2023])
Academic exams (JMMLU [尹ら, 2024])
Code generation (JHumanEval [佐藤ら, 2024])
English evaluation benchmarks
We used the Language Model Evaluation Harness(v.0.4.2) and Code Generation LM Evaluation Harness(commit #0261c52). The details are as follows:
Multiple-choice question answering (OpenBookQA [Mihaylov et al., 2018])
Open-ended question answering (TriviaQA [Joshi et al., 2017])
Machine reading comprehension (SQuAD2 [Rajpurkar et al., 2018])
Commonsense reasoning (XWINO [Tikhonov and Ryabinin, 2021])
Natural language inference (HellaSwag [Zellers et al., 2019])
Mathematical reasoning (GSM8K [Cobbe et al., 2021])
Reasoning (BBH (BIG-Bench-Hard) [Suzgun et al., 2023])
Academic exams (MMLU [Hendrycks et al., 2021])
Code generation (HumanEval [Chen et al., 2021])
MT-Bench JA
We used Japanese MT-Bench to assess the instruction-following capabilities of models.
We utilized the following settings:
The models released here are still in the early stages of our research and development and have not been tuned to ensure outputs align with human intent and safety considerations.
Acknowledgements
We thank Meta Research for releasing Llama 3 under an open license for others to build on.
If you find our work helpful, please feel free to cite us.
@inproceedings{Fujii:COLM2024,
title={Continual Pre-Training for Cross-Lingual LLM Adaptation:
Enhancing Japanese Language Capabilities},
author={Kazuki Fujii and Taishi Nakamura and Mengsay Loem and Hiroki
Iida and Masanari Ohi and Kakeru Hattori and Hirai Shota and Sakae
Mizuki and Rio Yokota and Naoaki Okazaki},
booktitle="Proceedings of the First Conference on Language Modeling",
series={COLM},
pages="(to appear)",
year="2024",
month=oct,
address={University of Pennsylvania, USA},
}
@inproceedings{Okazaki:COLM2024,
title={Building a Large Japanese Web Corpus for Large Language Models},
author={Naoaki Okazaki and Kakeru Hattori and Hirai Shota and Hiroki
Iida and Masanari Ohi and Kazuki Fujii and Taishi Nakamura and Mengsay
Loem and Rio Yokota and Sakae Mizuki},
booktitle="Proceedings of the First Conference on Language Modeling",
series={COLM},
pages="(to appear)",
year="2024",
month=oct,
address={University of Pennsylvania, USA},
}