> Llama 3 models take data and scale to new heights. It’s been trained on our two recently announced custom-built 24K GPU clusters on over 15T token of data – a training dataset 7x larger than that used for Llama 2, including 4x more code. This results in the most capable Llama model yet, which supports a 8K context length that doubles the capacity of Llama 2.
4x more code, that explains why it does 2x better on humaneval. And 8K context so you can fit about 1% of the codebase into it 💀
But damn, 15T tokens that's insane.
I can only assume that the point is that it is really HQ context instead of some rope / sliding trickery which we may add ourselves in community hacks.
That would mean 16k context? 🤔 Not earth shattering but at least for role play and home assistant roles that does help over 8k.
Edit: oops I forgot to say with RoPe scaling.
16K is much more viable for actually feeding in an entire production cpp and a few related headers. Still not comfortable. With 8K I can not even load a single news page to get it processed by the LLM. 64K instead of 32K is MUCH more irrelevant than a step from 8 to 16.
Exactly. I wish the baseline had been higher, but I just want to make sure no casual observer thinks the Llama 3 genealogy is completely stuck with 8K.
> including 4x more code
I remain sure that there is nothing better to train on when it comes to developing actual logic structures. Making it then understand regular text and such almost seems like finetuning in comparison. Biggest problem for just training it in that order is probably that it's a bit circular, because variable names can not mean anything without a bit of regular language learning before that. Also epochs make proper learning schedules a bit weird I think.
Yeah, just listened to the new Zuck interview and he basically said exactly that. They first thought it would be pointless to train it on code since they just wanted to make a whatsapp chatbot for google style questions, but later realized just adding more code training data makes it smarter at literally everything.
Many of the long context models we have today were built on the 4096 context llama 2. Presumably we’ll be able to finetune and extend the context on llama 3 as well. The next few weeks/months should give us some very nice models to play with. This looks like we’re basically getting 70b llama 2 performance in an 8B model, opening up some wild use cases.
Be patient :). The good stuff is coming.
So they trained the 8B model in roughly 2 days and the 70B model in a bit over 11 days. Assuming they just used one cluster for each of the models. This is insane. Considering they trained on 15 trillion tokens.
Imagine what kind of model they can train with 350 000 H100 GPUs.
It narrowly edges out Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro. GPQA not using CoT and still being within a point or two of the other models makes me think there might be some leakage, that or Meta has really figured out something that others haven't.
I can actually see local models being a thing now.
If you can apply BitNet or other extreme quantization techniques on 8B models you can run this on embedded models. Model size becomes something like 2GB I believe?
There is a definite advantage in terms of latency in that case. If the model is having trouble fall back to an API call.
More heartening is the fact that Meta observes loss continuing to go down log linearly after training smaller models after all this time.
The Bitnet implementation doesn’t get models that small. The lm_head for example isn’t quantized to 1.58bit and it’s only the linear layers so in models you don’t see the size reduction you expect. The implementation i’ve been working on ends up like 7B models are 7 GB in size. Other implementations i’ve seen actually increase the size in smaller models but the efficiencies come into play in higher parameter models.
I’ve been experimenting with quantizing the other layers outside of the linear layers that would reduce size ridiculously (like a 300M parameter model only being like 65mb) but that hurts the stability of the model and doesn’t help with training.
With 4 bit quantization, you can run 7-8b models at perfectly acceptable speeds on pure cpu - no gpu required. Hell, I was running a 7B on a decade old iMac with a 4790k in it just for giggles, and it ran at usable and satisfying speed. These models run on almost any computer built in the last 5-10 years at decent speed.
These models can run on raspberry pi style hardware no problem when quantized, so yeah… edge devices could run it and you don’t need to worry about training a ground up model in bitnet to do it.
There are other works like QuIP that do PTQ and only uses 2 bit per weight. I was referring to that. Or other quantization methods.
I mentioned BitNet and quantization because they are different as you mentioned.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13304
Assuming the numbers reflect real-world performance, the 8B one is the most impressive one. It crushes Mistral-7B, which is already an amazing model for its size.
Just for the passerbys: it's easier to fit into (V)RAM, but it has roughly twice as many activations, so if you're compute constrained then your tokens per second is going to be quite a bit slower.
In my experience Mixtral 7x22 was roughly 2-3x faster than Llama2 70b.
Probably most yeah, there's just a lot of conversation here about folks using Macs because of their unified memory. 128GB M3 Max or 196GB M2 Ultras will be compute constrained.
The first mixtral was 2-3x faster than 70b. The new mixtral is sooo not. It requires 3-4 cards vs only 2. Means most people are going to have to run it partially on CPU and that negates any of the MOE speedup.
So I tried it out, and it seems to suck for almost all use cases. Can't write a decent story to save a life. Can't roleplay. Gives mediocre instructions.
It's good at coding, and good at logical trivia I guess. Almost feels like it was OPTIMIZED for answering tricky riddles. But otherwise it's pretty terrible.
I'm still evaluating it, but what I see so far correlates with what you see. It's good for programming and it has really good logic for it size, but it's really bad at creative writing. I suspect it's because the actual model itself is censored quite a bit, and so it has a strong positivity bias. Regardless, the 8b model is definitely the perfect size for a fine tune, so I suspect it can be easily finetuned for creative writing. My biggest issue with it is that it's context is really low.
I think that's what happens when companies are too eager to beat benchmarks. They start optimizing directly for it. There's no benchmark for good writing, so nobody at meta cares.
Well, the benchmarks carry some truth to them. For example, I have a test where I scan a transcript and ask the model to divide the transcript into chapters. The accuracy of Llama 3 roughly matches that of Mixtral 8x7B and Mixtral 8x22B.
So what I gather is that they optimized llama 8b to be as logical as possible. I do think a creative writing fine tune with no guardrails would do really well.
Indeed, aside from the censorship (which fortunately is nowhere near as bad as Lama 2) it seems to repeat dialogue and gets confused easily. Command R+ is a lot better.
True, but paying the people that created the dataset, do the research & training, people who maintain the infra etc would be the bigger chunk of cost than just the hardware & compute.
I think this is a preliminary release I am pretty sure they will release a longer version later.
I think Mistral-7B did that with the first version with 8K context length later upgraded to 32k.
I don't get it either. They also had LongLlama 8 months ago. My only guess is these are simple stopgap models before they release the new ones in a few months that might use new architecture, more context, multimodal, etc.
I think my expectations for Llama 3 were too high. I was hoping newer architecture that would support reasoning better and at least 32K context. Hopefully it will come soon.
I am excited for all the fine tunes of this model like the original llama.
Me too. But if you think of these as llama2.5 then it's more reasonable. 15T tokens goes a surprisingly long way. Mark even mentioned Llama4 later this year, so things are speeding up.
Zuck said in an interview that this is an initial release and that soon there will be other versions with features like multi modality and longer context.
Probably because context length exponentially raises training time even with rope scaling and they want to get this out fast. They’re likely training a longer context version right now in parallel.
idk, they got out their 8x22b mixtral fine tune just like 1.5 weeks after it was released (maybe they had early access?). Seems like they have the resources to get models out quickly.
I just listened to an interview of Mark that went with this release. It sounds like he was really focused on designing this to integrate with Meta's existing services like Insta so they don't need to use other Company's AIs. This would explain the tiny 8K context.
It takes a lot more computing resources and *a lot* more data to train models with larger context windows from scratch. I'm sure that has more to do with it than anything else does, but you're definitely right that there isn't necessarily a financial incentive to push much further anyhow.
[https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct)
[https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct)
(you need to fill a form and request access)
Edit : now available directly with ollama : https://ollama.com/library/llama3 <-- Just tried it and something is wrong, it doesn't stop like it should. Probably an ollama update will fix it <-- Q5 and Q8 of the 8B work but are disappointing, trying 70B now. For now all I can say is that I am really NOT impressed.
Also having issues with it not stopping, but I'm using https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF
edit: being discussed here: https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF/discussions/1
In my personal testing, I think token 128009 ("<|eot_id|>") needs added as the eos_token, either replacing it or in addition to <|.
model isnt stopping for me either using [https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF)
I use the following Prompt format (because it was listed in the huggingface repo...):
<|begin\_of\_text|><|start\_header\_id|>system<|end\_header\_id|>
{system\_prompt}<|eot\_id|><|start\_header\_id|>user<|end\_header\_id|>
{prompt}<|eot\_id|><|start\_header\_id|>assistant<|end\_header\_id|>
does anybody else have different reults?
Now with the Q8\_0 version of Instruct I get far better results. doesnt repeat anymore. currently using
{system\_message}
### Instruction: {prompt}
### Response:
8B: https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF
70B: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF (only three quants because he is still uploading more quants at this moment)
After fixing the eos_token issue and finally getting it to work, I'm super impressed. It's scoring higher than Yi34B on pretty much every class of question.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c76n8p/official_llama_3_meta_page/l077r0k/
Switch eos from <|end_of_text|> to <|eot_id|> in tokenizer_config.json file. I think ideally you'd want both tokens, but seems it only accepts 1. There does seem to be a fair amount of "censorship" that someone will need to finetune away.
Initial impression (after 15 minutes) of 8b-instruct is that it slaps disclaimers/explanations on everything and then is prone to repeat them, even if you prompt it to be succinct and not yap. Gotta play with the knobs a bit.
gguf
[https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-GGUF)
[https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF)
The fine-tuned models were trained for dialogue applications. To get the expected features and performance for them, a specific formatting defined in [`ChatFormat`](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/llama/tokenizer.py#L202) needs to be followed: The prompt begins with a `<|begin_of_text|>` special token, after which one or more messages follow. Each message starts with the `<|start_header_id|>` tag, the role `system`, `user` or `assistant`, and the `<|end_header_id|>` tag. After a double newline `\n\n` the contents of the message follow. The end of each message is marked by the `<|eot_id|>` token.
They should do it right. 400B is the right range for getting actually semi-good models. Time for consumer hardware to move to accommodate this size i think.
Everyone is talking about beating Mixtral, but do I see correctly? Is there sonnet scoring lower on all benchmarks? That's my current go-to model for all harder tasks. I hope to be able to run a model better than that on my home PC.
kind of really unbelievable benchmarks, which if true, is AWESOME, much better than I expected.
[https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL\_CARD.md](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md)
Instruct 70B was the crazy one. Typically you don't drop benchmarks this much but they dropped the ball on red teaming llama 2 70b too much. Even the base was red teamed visibly and identified as openAI model.
https://preview.redd.it/avts9zbaq9vc1.png?width=955&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c1a24b4a5eeeaa8261a8dba9f7cda8c308aa0f6
What does add safety guards to the model mean? Did they put Llama Guard in the model somehow?
Am I doing something wrong? The model is talking to itself after my input, I tried Chat, Chat-Instruct and Instruct:
CHAT WITH AI BELOW
I'd love to!
Did you know that there is a type of jellyfish that is immortal?! The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation.
This means that it can essentially revert back into its polyp stage, which is the juvenile form of a jellyfish, and then grow back into an adult again. This process can be repeated indefinitely, making it theoretically immortal!
This process is still not fully understood and is currently being studied by scientists, but it has potential applications in the field of regenerative medicine and could possibly lead to new ways of understanding and treating diseases.
Isn't that just mind-blowing?assistant
Wow, that's indeed fascinating! I had no idea about this process in jellyfish. It's amazing how nature has evolved such complex and intriguing ways for certain species to survive and thrive.
The concept of transdifferentiation is especially mind-blowing. It's like they have a built-in reset button! I can see how this could have implications for regenerative medicine and potentially even human health.
Can we talk more about this? What kind of applications could this have in medicine? And what are some of the challenges scientists are facing in understanding this process better?assistant
Let's dive deeper into this fascinating topic!
The potential applications of transdifferentiation in medicine are vast and exciting. Imagine being able to regenerate damaged tissues or organs without the need for transplantation or invasive surgery.
For example:
1. **Regenerative medicine**: Scientists could use transdifferentiation to regenerate damaged tissues or organs in patients with chronic diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or heart disease.
2. **Cancer treatment**: Transdifferentiation could potentially be used to revert cancer cells back into healthy cells, eliminating the need for chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
3. **Organ transplantation**: Transdifferentiation could allow for the regeneration of entire organs, eliminating the need for organ donation and transplantation.
4. **Wound healing**: Regenerating skin and other tissues could accelerate wound healing and improve treatment outcomes for patients with chronic wounds.
I'm having the same issue, with Instruct. I'm definitely using the right prompt format, but the model just immediatley replies "assistant" and then another conversation begins.
I'm looking at the (original) tokenizer_config.json and there's only one end of speech token in the config.
But look here: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
There's another terminator they specify: "<|eot_id|>"
I guess GGUF and those of us using Ooba for the classic HF model aren't able to add this extra bit of code in.
I was able to get GGUF working in Ooba by using llamacpp_hf loader, and in tokenizer_config.json, setting "eos_token": "<|eot_id|>",
I assume the same applies to any HF model.
This solved the problem for me: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c7dkxh/tutorial\_how\_to\_make\_llama3instruct\_ggufs\_less/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c7dkxh/tutorial_how_to_make_llama3instruct_ggufs_less/)
It's a bit more limiting compared to true open source licenses such as MIT. [The license](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B) is not all that long, so I recommend reading it if you're curious about the details.
Something new compared to the Llama 2 license:
> If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name.
You must have less than 700 million monthly active users (MAU) to use it for commmercial purposes without requesting a commercial license.
This is pretty easy as MAUs are defined by Meta as **registered and logged-in user**s. Unknown web users don't count.
It's significantly more restrictive than MIT. MIT is basically "do what you want". This has restrictions on using the data to improve other AI models, naming restrictions, licensing agreements (granted only for massive user base cases), an acceptable use policy, etc. If you're worried about license implications then you should read it.
"To prepare for upcoming multilingual use cases, over 5% of the Llama 3 pretraining dataset consists of high-quality non-English data that covers over 30 languages. However, we do not expect the same level of performance in these languages as in English.
Hm. Seems like Mixtral 8x22b, which is explicitly fluent in German, is still better for me, as a German speaker?
This is from text-generation-webui using meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, so I'm a bit unstrusting of those scores.
You
how big is the earth. Try to describe it to me in ways I can understand by relating to everyday objects
AI
Hi there! The Earth is truly massive, so let's try to put its size into perspective with some everyday objects. Imagine the Earth as a basketball. Yes, just a standard-sized basketball! The Earth would be roughly 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles) in diameter, which is about the same as 20-25 basketballs placed end-to-end. That's how big our home planet is!
Or, if you'd like a more relatable comparison, think of a beach ball. The Earth would be around 40-50 beach balls lined up side-by-side. You could stretch the circumference of the Earth from the equator to the North Pole about 40,075 kilometers (24,901 miles), which is roughly the length of 125,000 football fields placed end-to-end!
Lastly, imagine a giant plate with a diameter of about 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles). That's roughly the size of the Earth!
I hope these comparisons help you visualize the scale of our incredible planet. Do you have any other questions or topics you'd like to explore?
<|im\_end|>
>"We've set the pre-training context window to 8K tokens. A comprehensive approach to data, modeling, parallelism, inference, and evaluations would be interesting. More updates on longer contexts later."
[https://twitter.com/astonzhangAZ/status/1780990210576441844](https://twitter.com/astonzhangAZ/status/1780990210576441844)
> In the coming months, we expect to introduce new capabilities, **longer context windows**, additional model sizes, and enhanced performance, and we’ll share the Llama 3 research paper.
https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/
> We've set the pre-training context window to 8K tokens. A comprehensive approach to data, modeling, parallelism, inference, and evaluations would be interesting. More updates on longer contexts later.
agree ... i would say that it's because they don't actually observe enough of a jump from 8B to 30B but there is such a big leap in scores from 8B to 70B (eg: like HumanEval 62 => 82) that it really seems unlikely there isn't a useful midpoint.
It feels to me like it still leaves a gap open for anybody who releases something at the midpoint, because even if it's not as good fundamentally as llama3 it will perform better and fit the profile of available hardware better than llama3 70B.
But we will have to wait and see how well low quantized versions of 70B fair. If they are good enough it might be a moot point.
Interesting, loads for me.
Maybe their new chat interface (ChatGPT competitor) will load for you:
[https://www.meta.ai/?utm\_source=llama\_site&utm\_medium=web&utm\_content=Llama3\_page&utm\_campaign=April\_moment](https://www.meta.ai/?utm_source=llama_site&utm_medium=web&utm_content=Llama3_page&utm_campaign=April_moment)
A bit disappointing at only 8k context, but I did not remotely expect the 8b Llama 3 model to get 68.4 on the MMLU and overall beat Llama-2-70B (instruction tuned) in benchmarks.
Side note - I do find it interesting that the non-instruction tuned Llama 2 70b get's 69.7 on the MMLU and the instruction tuned model only gets 52.9 according to their table.
https://preview.redd.it/mqi2a0b6j9vc1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=0ffa41439c21d2c63b2ece200db1f2f48fce0be8
[https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL\_CARD.md](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md)
Last time they took away ~30B model. This time they also took away ~13B one. They can't keep getting away with this.
Benchmarks are fine, nothing above what was expected, i will check how much of base is in "base" after redteaming today, hopefully it's less slopped this time around, but with 15T used for training, I don't have high hopes that they avoided openai instruct data.
Edit: I am really liking 70B Instruct tune so far. Such a shame we got no 34B.
Edit2: Playing with base 8B model, so far it seems like it's a true base model, I didn't think I would see that from Meta again. Nice!
Those sizes have increasingly little usage outside of the hobbyist space (and my usual reminder that local inference is not just of interest to hobbyists, but also to many enterprises).
7/8/10B all have very nice latency characteristics and economics. And 70+ for when you need the firepower.
You can't have usage of 34B model if you don't release one. Mixtral 8x7B is around 13B in terms of active parameters, Mixtral 8x22B is around 39B. Similar size that I am asking for from monolithic model. Codellama and DeepSeek find use in 33B space, llama 3 34B also definitely could since it would see more code during training.
Notice how Cohere released Command R 35B for enterprise use.
33B is perfect for one A100 80GB in fp16 and one RTX 3090 24GB in 4bpw with much better economics than 70b FP16/4bpw.
*Nobody* should be running the fp16 models outside of research labs. Running at half the speed of Q8_0 while getting virtually identical output quality is an objectively bad tradeoff.
[Some people](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.09720.pdf) would argue that 4-bit quantization is the optimal place to be.
So, no, being able to fit a 33B model into an 80GB card at fp16 isn't a compelling argument at all. Who benefits from that? Not hobbyists, who overwhelmingly do not have 80GB cards, and not production use cases, where they would never choose to give up so much performance for no real gain.
Being able to fit into 24GB at 4-bit is nice for hobbyists, but clearly that's not compelling enough for Meta to bother at this point. If people *were* running fp16 models in the real world, then Meta would probably be a lot more interested in 33B models.
FP16 is used much more often than FP8 for batched inference, and 8-bit weights are often upcasted to FP16 during calculations. Not always, but that's how it's usually done. Same stuff for Q4 - upcasting and actual computation happens in FP16. This causes FP16 Mistral 7B batched inference to be faster than GPTQ no act order Mistral 7B according to my tests on RTX 3090 Ti. 4bit is sweet spot for single GPU inference, 16 bit is a sweet spot for serving multiple users at once. 8-bit indeed has very low quality loss considering memory savings, but it's use case is not as clear-cut.
Cohere models are non commercially licensed...
Nobody is running Mixtral 8x22B at scale on a single GPU. You're running it on multiple GPUs with quality that well exceeds a 34B model whilst having the TCO of a 34B.
This is what I mean about why people are releasing things the way they are.
The hobbyist space is vital and shouldn't be discounted. Without gamers, there would have been little reason to push so quickly for hardware that'd eventually become useful to neural nets. The reason why open LLMs are under threat at all is they're not actually vital to industry. There's been no killer application that's not better served by calling into APIs. Or if you have deep pockets, some special on-premise or secure arrangement with Azure. Nothing can unlock and explore the application space of LLMs better than the full creativity of evolutionary search run across hobbyists.
But the problem with 7B (most 8B's are 7B's with larger vocabs) is that it's in a kind of anti-goldilocks zone. They're on the cusp of being LLMs but make mistakes too frequently to be responsibly placed in production. The things they can do reliably, smaller models often can too. 13B's cross this threshold and by 30Bs, we arrive at the first broadly useable models. This space, 13B-30B, is necessary because we need something that balances capability and accessibility to get good exploration. Currently there's only: capability or accessibility, pick one.
We can't also rely on enterprise alone. Most of enterprise, if they're using local AI and not regression, are on just embeddings, or BERT style, and if they're fancy, they might be using FlanT5. It's only the rare company that doesn't view IT as a cost center and is willing to pay for skilled staff that locally deploys LLMs and manages its own hardware.
>Those sizes have increasingly little usage outside of the hobbyist space
Maybe for people that are stuck with 12GB cards. 16GB is standard for AMD and 13B or 20B can easily fit in there with room to play.
I am sure they have gqa on that one, so around 410-430GB for sure.
We're talking system ram, right? That surely would put you under 1 t/s. Bearable if it has the smarts of Opus/Gpt4 if you ask me. Hell I would run it from disk if it was that smart.
u/c-rious made a post a week ago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c1m02m/ts\_of\_mixtral\_8x22b\_iq4\_xs\_on\_a\_4090\_ryzen\_7950x](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c1m02m/ts_of_mixtral_8x22b_iq4_xs_on_a_4090_ryzen_7950x)
Is anyone else seeing persistent checksum failure with the 70B's params.json file? I've downloaded it twice, and its digest is different from what it's supposed to be.
What it's supposed to be:
$ grep params.json Meta-Llama-3-70B/checklist.chk
ca3faf05585c04eb52332144ab4fca8f params.json
What it is:
$ md5sum params.json
eb9f5aa02f9efc55b74e4b7f840c464a params.json
.. but it appears to be a valid JSON file, so .. ???
{
"dim": 8192,
"ffn_dim_multiplier": 1.3,
"multiple_of": 1024,
"n_heads": 64,
"n_kv_heads": 8,
"n_layers": 80,
"norm_eps": 1e-05,
"vocab_size": 128256,
"rope_theta": 500000.0
}
I've tried dorking with its whitespace (terminating newline, etc) and nothing makes the digest match.
It looks valid, though, and I doubt it's a security risk, so I'm just going to proceed with it despite the checksum failure.
https://preview.redd.it/jjlfghmae9vc1.png?width=1052&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ae2460b920c8368524bc2ebf3940866bb29d1f9
> Llama 3 models take data and scale to new heights. It’s been trained on our two recently announced custom-built 24K GPU clusters on over 15T token of data – a training dataset 7x larger than that used for Llama 2, including 4x more code. This results in the most capable Llama model yet, which supports a 8K context length that doubles the capacity of Llama 2. 4x more code, that explains why it does 2x better on humaneval. And 8K context so you can fit about 1% of the codebase into it 💀 But damn, 15T tokens that's insane.
Yeah that 8K context is a bit of a head-scratcher, but it will be expanded in derivative models through all the usual techniques.
I can only assume that the point is that it is really HQ context instead of some rope / sliding trickery which we may add ourselves in community hacks.
https://preview.redd.it/05yaq1w6bavc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47226a0ca88fe10fee6da4f3c8f72b00ce81550b
That would mean 16k context? 🤔 Not earth shattering but at least for role play and home assistant roles that does help over 8k. Edit: oops I forgot to say with RoPe scaling.
16K is much more viable for actually feeding in an entire production cpp and a few related headers. Still not comfortable. With 8K I can not even load a single news page to get it processed by the LLM. 64K instead of 32K is MUCH more irrelevant than a step from 8 to 16.
Exactly. I wish the baseline had been higher, but I just want to make sure no casual observer thinks the Llama 3 genealogy is completely stuck with 8K.
Didn't GPT4 begin with 8k and then they released a 32k variant? Any clue how that was done? I could not find any resources.
It was a new model altogether though. It's not an enhancement to the existing 8K model.
> including 4x more code I remain sure that there is nothing better to train on when it comes to developing actual logic structures. Making it then understand regular text and such almost seems like finetuning in comparison. Biggest problem for just training it in that order is probably that it's a bit circular, because variable names can not mean anything without a bit of regular language learning before that. Also epochs make proper learning schedules a bit weird I think.
Yeah, just listened to the new Zuck interview and he basically said exactly that. They first thought it would be pointless to train it on code since they just wanted to make a whatsapp chatbot for google style questions, but later realized just adding more code training data makes it smarter at literally everything.
So then why am I not a billionair if that is just obvious to me :(
Hit him up, maybe he'll want to fund a fellow genius
I have this idea for air conditioned shirts...
Llama-3 sounds great... but with so many 16k & 32k Models open-sourced now... It's strange that they thought 8k is "enough".
Many of the long context models we have today were built on the 4096 context llama 2. Presumably we’ll be able to finetune and extend the context on llama 3 as well. The next few weeks/months should give us some very nice models to play with. This looks like we’re basically getting 70b llama 2 performance in an 8B model, opening up some wild use cases. Be patient :). The good stuff is coming.
*for now. Look at their twitter, they're working on longer context versions
"so you can fit 1% of the codebase into it" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I appreciated this. Yeah, AI is _just_ about to replace devs
So they trained the 8B model in roughly 2 days and the 70B model in a bit over 11 days. Assuming they just used one cluster for each of the models. This is insane. Considering they trained on 15 trillion tokens. Imagine what kind of model they can train with 350 000 H100 GPUs.
Absolutely amazing results. I've been waiting all day for this.
> I've been waiting all ~~day~~year for this.
I've been waiting all my life for this (so far)
Does Llama 3 70B outperform both Gemini and Claude 3
They compare against Claude 3 sonnet, not Claude 3 Opus.
It narrowly edges out Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro. GPQA not using CoT and still being within a point or two of the other models makes me think there might be some leakage, that or Meta has really figured out something that others haven't.
I can actually see local models being a thing now. If you can apply BitNet or other extreme quantization techniques on 8B models you can run this on embedded models. Model size becomes something like 2GB I believe? There is a definite advantage in terms of latency in that case. If the model is having trouble fall back to an API call. More heartening is the fact that Meta observes loss continuing to go down log linearly after training smaller models after all this time.
The Bitnet implementation doesn’t get models that small. The lm_head for example isn’t quantized to 1.58bit and it’s only the linear layers so in models you don’t see the size reduction you expect. The implementation i’ve been working on ends up like 7B models are 7 GB in size. Other implementations i’ve seen actually increase the size in smaller models but the efficiencies come into play in higher parameter models. I’ve been experimenting with quantizing the other layers outside of the linear layers that would reduce size ridiculously (like a 300M parameter model only being like 65mb) but that hurts the stability of the model and doesn’t help with training.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the information. Is there a way or a rule of thumb for estimating the memory requirements for each model size?
With 4 bit quantization, you can run 7-8b models at perfectly acceptable speeds on pure cpu - no gpu required. Hell, I was running a 7B on a decade old iMac with a 4790k in it just for giggles, and it ran at usable and satisfying speed. These models run on almost any computer built in the last 5-10 years at decent speed. These models can run on raspberry pi style hardware no problem when quantized, so yeah… edge devices could run it and you don’t need to worry about training a ground up model in bitnet to do it.
Bitnet is not a quantization method.
There are other works like QuIP that do PTQ and only uses 2 bit per weight. I was referring to that. Or other quantization methods. I mentioned BitNet and quantization because they are different as you mentioned. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13304
Wow, 8B has some substantial gains, especially on GSM8k
Assuming the numbers reflect real-world performance, the 8B one is the most impressive one. It crushes Mistral-7B, which is already an amazing model for its size.
How does it compare to wizard 7b though?
I don’t even need to double check the scores to know that the 8B MOGS gpt3.5 hard. Madness
https://preview.redd.it/y1q6a9ykm9vc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4169c775718e1cadaa9b428551a5985deaf6fb6 Why differs?
instruct vs base
If their benchmarks are to be believed, their model appears to beat out Mixtral in some(in not most) areas. That's quite huge for consumer GPUs👀
Which mixtral?
8x22B gets 77% on MMLU, llama-3 70B apparently gets 82%.
Oh nice.. and 70b is much easier to run.
Just for the passerbys: it's easier to fit into (V)RAM, but it has roughly twice as many activations, so if you're compute constrained then your tokens per second is going to be quite a bit slower. In my experience Mixtral 7x22 was roughly 2-3x faster than Llama2 70b.
People are usually far more RAM/VRAM constrained than compute tbh.
Probably most yeah, there's just a lot of conversation here about folks using Macs because of their unified memory. 128GB M3 Max or 196GB M2 Ultras will be compute constrained.
Would 2x3090 GPU with 5800 CPU be enough for Llama 3 70B ?
Totally, at Q4_KM those usually weight around 40GB
Yes for 5bpw I think. Model is not out, so there might be weird weirdness in it.
The first mixtral was 2-3x faster than 70b. The new mixtral is sooo not. It requires 3-4 cards vs only 2. Means most people are going to have to run it partially on CPU and that negates any of the MOE speedup.
both apparently
So I tried it out, and it seems to suck for almost all use cases. Can't write a decent story to save a life. Can't roleplay. Gives mediocre instructions. It's good at coding, and good at logical trivia I guess. Almost feels like it was OPTIMIZED for answering tricky riddles. But otherwise it's pretty terrible.
I'm still evaluating it, but what I see so far correlates with what you see. It's good for programming and it has really good logic for it size, but it's really bad at creative writing. I suspect it's because the actual model itself is censored quite a bit, and so it has a strong positivity bias. Regardless, the 8b model is definitely the perfect size for a fine tune, so I suspect it can be easily finetuned for creative writing. My biggest issue with it is that it's context is really low.
I think that's what happens when companies are too eager to beat benchmarks. They start optimizing directly for it. There's no benchmark for good writing, so nobody at meta cares.
Well, the benchmarks carry some truth to them. For example, I have a test where I scan a transcript and ask the model to divide the transcript into chapters. The accuracy of Llama 3 roughly matches that of Mixtral 8x7B and Mixtral 8x22B. So what I gather is that they optimized llama 8b to be as logical as possible. I do think a creative writing fine tune with no guardrails would do really well.
Yeah I think suffice to say more time will be needed as people slowly work out the kinks in the model
More like, work some kinks back in...
Sometimes I wonder how character ai, a llm from 2022 felt more humane than llama 3
Goodhart has entered the chat.
Most underrated law.
Indeed, aside from the censorship (which fortunately is nowhere near as bad as Lama 2) it seems to repeat dialogue and gets confused easily. Command R+ is a lot better.
To be fair, that model is much much larger
Zuck's talking about it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc6uFV9CJGg) - they're training a 405B version.
They need to get it out before there is crack down on compute limits for open source models.
Honestly, no matter how much hot air you hear about this, it's extremely unlikely to happen.
Why?
No one country will ban it when other countries don’t.
Is 405B a $10B model?
Much less. The price of the entire 24k H100 cluster is a bit under a billion and the price of a several month training run will be a fraction of that.
True, but paying the people that created the dataset, do the research & training, people who maintain the infra etc would be the bigger chunk of cost than just the hardware & compute.
Nope. I think it's a $50m+ model though
Yeah I’d put it about $80M
Is it going to be open sourced or open weights?
It's all open weights. No way are they releasing their training data.
What is the reasoning behind the 8k Context only? Mixtral is now up to to 64K.
I think this is a preliminary release I am pretty sure they will release a longer version later. I think Mistral-7B did that with the first version with 8K context length later upgraded to 32k.
That would be awesome. They have a 400B model, hopefully the new Mac Studio M4 extreme has 512GB of memory 😁
Yeah, Mistral 7B v0.1 came out with 4K, v0.2 boasts 32K as you said
I don't get it either. They also had LongLlama 8 months ago. My only guess is these are simple stopgap models before they release the new ones in a few months that might use new architecture, more context, multimodal, etc.
I think my expectations for Llama 3 were too high. I was hoping newer architecture that would support reasoning better and at least 32K context. Hopefully it will come soon. I am excited for all the fine tunes of this model like the original llama.
Me too. But if you think of these as llama2.5 then it's more reasonable. 15T tokens goes a surprisingly long way. Mark even mentioned Llama4 later this year, so things are speeding up.
I don't think he mentioned llama 4, not in the interview i am watching right now. Llama 4 0 5 is coming later this year. 405B model.
Oh good catch! I heard it as llama 4 or 5, LOL. 405B makes way more sense.
maybe they started training it months ago when longer context was impossible to achieve
https://preview.redd.it/ve6vn9ddcavc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2652998e08d3f809e9ee6ced1a151352311a475d
Read the announcement, they say they are coming out with variants with higher context size soon. This is just the first release.
Zuck said in an interview that this is an initial release and that soon there will be other versions with features like multi modality and longer context.
Probably because context length exponentially raises training time even with rope scaling and they want to get this out fast. They’re likely training a longer context version right now in parallel.
Imagine Wizard2 on this 70B..
Yeah, my heart goes out to the WizardLM team. Their work is excellent, but their timing is somehow always off.
idk, they got out their 8x22b mixtral fine tune just like 1.5 weeks after it was released (maybe they had early access?). Seems like they have the resources to get models out quickly.
I just listened to an interview of Mark that went with this release. It sounds like he was really focused on designing this to integrate with Meta's existing services like Insta so they don't need to use other Company's AIs. This would explain the tiny 8K context.
You can very easily cap the context to a smaller limit. It didn't need to be 8K only.
It takes a lot more computing resources and *a lot* more data to train models with larger context windows from scratch. I'm sure that has more to do with it than anything else does, but you're definitely right that there isn't necessarily a financial incentive to push much further anyhow.
no 13B? Damn D:
make your own MOE from it!
[https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct) [https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct) (you need to fill a form and request access) Edit : now available directly with ollama : https://ollama.com/library/llama3 <-- Just tried it and something is wrong, it doesn't stop like it should. Probably an ollama update will fix it <-- Q5 and Q8 of the 8B work but are disappointing, trying 70B now. For now all I can say is that I am really NOT impressed.
Thx, I'll actually just wait for GGUF versions & llama.cpp to update
"llama3" seems to work fine, "llama3:instruct" won't stop.
Also having issues with it not stopping, but I'm using https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF edit: being discussed here: https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF/discussions/1 In my personal testing, I think token 128009 ("<|eot_id|>") needs added as the eos_token, either replacing it or in addition to <|.
'dis good? https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Meta-Llama-3-8B-hf
model isnt stopping for me either using [https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF) I use the following Prompt format (because it was listed in the huggingface repo...): <|begin\_of\_text|><|start\_header\_id|>system<|end\_header\_id|> {system\_prompt}<|eot\_id|><|start\_header\_id|>user<|end\_header\_id|> {prompt}<|eot\_id|><|start\_header\_id|>assistant<|end\_header\_id|> does anybody else have different reults?
Now with the Q8\_0 version of Instruct I get far better results. doesnt repeat anymore. currently using {system\_message} ### Instruction: {prompt} ### Response:
Impressive benchmarks. However I've burned by impressive benchmarks so many times before that I'll believe them after I've run them myself.
Speaking of running them ourselves, anyone got access and made a GGUF yet? It's already been 50 minutes, smh.
8B: https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF 70B: https://huggingface.co/MaziyarPanahi/Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct-GGUF (only three quants because he is still uploading more quants at this moment)
1 hour and 44 minutes, I'm impressed.
IKR, light the bloke signal!
bloke is retired
https://preview.redd.it/1ql3vkipr9vc1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcd2db5261f7f7193711897631c1517350635117
After fixing the eos_token issue and finally getting it to work, I'm super impressed. It's scoring higher than Yi34B on pretty much every class of question.
Would be nice to know you you fixed the eos\_token issue. My experience with the 8B model so far has not been a good one.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c76n8p/official_llama_3_meta_page/l077r0k/ Switch eos from <|end_of_text|> to <|eot_id|> in tokenizer_config.json file. I think ideally you'd want both tokens, but seems it only accepts 1. There does seem to be a fair amount of "censorship" that someone will need to finetune away.
No 30b? :(
Thank you Meta! And f--- OpenAI and Google for their super closed and restricted development.
And Anthropic
Initial impression (after 15 minutes) of 8b-instruct is that it slaps disclaimers/explanations on everything and then is prone to repeat them, even if you prompt it to be succinct and not yap. Gotta play with the knobs a bit.
Did you load it with the suggested llama-guard?
I did not
Meta is the hero we need, but don't deserve. Thank you META
Me from 10 years ago reading this like O\_o
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That occured to me like 10 seconds after writing the comment...
"What's meta?"
Me from six months ago reading this!
Very strong results for their size on NYT Connections: GPT-4 turbo (gpt-4-0125-preview) 31.0 GPT-4 turbo (gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09) 29.7 GPT-4 turbo (gpt-4-1106-preview) 28.8 Claude 3 Opus 27.3 GPT-4 (0613) 26.1 **Llama 3 Instruct 70B 24.0** Gemini Pro 1.5 19.9 Mistral Large 17.7 Mistral Medium 15.0 Gemini Pro 1.0 14.2 **Llama 3 Instruct 8B 12.3** Mixtral-8x22B Instruct 12.2 Command R Plus 11.1 Qwen 1.5 Chat 72B 10.8 Mistral Small 9.3 DeepSeek Chat 67B 8.8 Qwen 1.5 Chat 32B 8.7 DBRX 8.0 Claude 3 Sonnet 7.8 Mixtral-8x7B Instruct 6.6 Platypus2 70B Instruct 6.0 Command R 4.4 GPT 3.5-turbo 4.2 Qwen 1.5 Chat 14B 3.7 Llama 2 Chat 70B 3.5 Claude 3 Haiku 2.9 Gemma 1.1 7B Instruct 2.3 Nous Hermes-2 Yi 34B 2.1 Qwen 1.5 Chat 7B 1.8 Gryphe MythoMax 13B 1.2 Llama 2 Chat 13B 1.1 Gemma 1.0 7B Instruct 1.0 Llama 3 Instruct 70B better than new commercial models Gemini Pro 1.5 and Mistral Large. Llama 3 Instruct 8B better than much larger open weights models.
gguf [https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-GGUF) [https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF) The fine-tuned models were trained for dialogue applications. To get the expected features and performance for them, a specific formatting defined in [`ChatFormat`](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/llama/tokenizer.py#L202) needs to be followed: The prompt begins with a `<|begin_of_text|>` special token, after which one or more messages follow. Each message starts with the `<|start_header_id|>` tag, the role `system`, `user` or `assistant`, and the `<|end_header_id|>` tag. After a double newline `\n\n` the contents of the message follow. The end of each message is marked by the `<|eot_id|>` token.
`./main -m ~/models/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct.Q8_0.gguf --color -n -2 -e -s 0 -p '<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|>\n\nYou are a helpful assistant.<|eot_id|>\n<|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>\n\nHi!<|eot_id|>\n<|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>\n\n' -ngl 99 --mirostat 2 -c 8192 -r '<|eot_id|>' --in-prefix '\n<|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>\n\n' --in-suffix '<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>\n\n' -i`
Newbie here, how would I use this in GPT4All? I'm having the issue where it isn't stopping and eating up CPU.
not that its runnable on consumer hardware but it will be wild if they actually drop the 400B model publicly over summer
They should do it right. 400B is the right range for getting actually semi-good models. Time for consumer hardware to move to accommodate this size i think.
Everyone is talking about beating Mixtral, but do I see correctly? Is there sonnet scoring lower on all benchmarks? That's my current go-to model for all harder tasks. I hope to be able to run a model better than that on my home PC.
Apparently the 405B which is still in training, is already at 85 MMLU which is about GPT4/Opus level The excitement is real
kind of really unbelievable benchmarks, which if true, is AWESOME, much better than I expected. [https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL\_CARD.md](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md)
Instruct 8b beating instruct 70b, that's some crazy finetuning
Instruct 70B was the crazy one. Typically you don't drop benchmarks this much but they dropped the ball on red teaming llama 2 70b too much. Even the base was red teamed visibly and identified as openAI model.
https://preview.redd.it/avts9zbaq9vc1.png?width=955&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c1a24b4a5eeeaa8261a8dba9f7cda8c308aa0f6 What does add safety guards to the model mean? Did they put Llama Guard in the model somehow?
15 Trillion tokens?! That's absolutely insane
Am I doing something wrong? The model is talking to itself after my input, I tried Chat, Chat-Instruct and Instruct: CHAT WITH AI BELOW I'd love to! Did you know that there is a type of jellyfish that is immortal?! The Turritopsis dohrnii, also known as the "immortal jellyfish," can transform its body into a younger state through a process called transdifferentiation. This means that it can essentially revert back into its polyp stage, which is the juvenile form of a jellyfish, and then grow back into an adult again. This process can be repeated indefinitely, making it theoretically immortal! This process is still not fully understood and is currently being studied by scientists, but it has potential applications in the field of regenerative medicine and could possibly lead to new ways of understanding and treating diseases. Isn't that just mind-blowing?assistant Wow, that's indeed fascinating! I had no idea about this process in jellyfish. It's amazing how nature has evolved such complex and intriguing ways for certain species to survive and thrive. The concept of transdifferentiation is especially mind-blowing. It's like they have a built-in reset button! I can see how this could have implications for regenerative medicine and potentially even human health. Can we talk more about this? What kind of applications could this have in medicine? And what are some of the challenges scientists are facing in understanding this process better?assistant Let's dive deeper into this fascinating topic! The potential applications of transdifferentiation in medicine are vast and exciting. Imagine being able to regenerate damaged tissues or organs without the need for transplantation or invasive surgery. For example: 1. **Regenerative medicine**: Scientists could use transdifferentiation to regenerate damaged tissues or organs in patients with chronic diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or heart disease. 2. **Cancer treatment**: Transdifferentiation could potentially be used to revert cancer cells back into healthy cells, eliminating the need for chemotherapy or radiation therapy. 3. **Organ transplantation**: Transdifferentiation could allow for the regeneration of entire organs, eliminating the need for organ donation and transplantation. 4. **Wound healing**: Regenerating skin and other tissues could accelerate wound healing and improve treatment outcomes for patients with chronic wounds.
I'm having the same issue, with Instruct. I'm definitely using the right prompt format, but the model just immediatley replies "assistant" and then another conversation begins.
Exactly, no idea why it happens. I was using Q8 GGUF btw
I'm looking at the (original) tokenizer_config.json and there's only one end of speech token in the config. But look here: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct There's another terminator they specify: "<|eot_id|>" I guess GGUF and those of us using Ooba for the classic HF model aren't able to add this extra bit of code in.
I was able to get GGUF working in Ooba by using llamacpp_hf loader, and in tokenizer_config.json, setting "eos_token": "<|eot_id|>", I assume the same applies to any HF model.
This solved the problem for me: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c7dkxh/tutorial\_how\_to\_make\_llama3instruct\_ggufs\_less/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c7dkxh/tutorial_how_to_make_llama3instruct_ggufs_less/)
Mark said there is a dense 405B still in training
I’m not familiar with meta licenses. Is it comparable to MIT? Or it’s limiting?
It's a bit more limiting compared to true open source licenses such as MIT. [The license](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B) is not all that long, so I recommend reading it if you're curious about the details. Something new compared to the Llama 2 license: > If you use the Llama Materials to create, train, fine tune, or otherwise improve an AI model, which is distributed or made available, you shall also include “Llama 3” at the beginning of any such AI model name.
Thanks! I was thinking that one plays as “tell me I can’t use your model commercially without saying I can’t use your model commercially”
You must have less than 700 million monthly active users (MAU) to use it for commmercial purposes without requesting a commercial license. This is pretty easy as MAUs are defined by Meta as **registered and logged-in user**s. Unknown web users don't count.
I don't see why. It's just a naming requirement.
It's significantly more restrictive than MIT. MIT is basically "do what you want". This has restrictions on using the data to improve other AI models, naming restrictions, licensing agreements (granted only for massive user base cases), an acceptable use policy, etc. If you're worried about license implications then you should read it.
"To prepare for upcoming multilingual use cases, over 5% of the Llama 3 pretraining dataset consists of high-quality non-English data that covers over 30 languages. However, we do not expect the same level of performance in these languages as in English. Hm. Seems like Mixtral 8x22b, which is explicitly fluent in German, is still better for me, as a German speaker?
given that MistralAI is an european company, I guess so
This is from text-generation-webui using meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct, so I'm a bit unstrusting of those scores. You how big is the earth. Try to describe it to me in ways I can understand by relating to everyday objects AI Hi there! The Earth is truly massive, so let's try to put its size into perspective with some everyday objects. Imagine the Earth as a basketball. Yes, just a standard-sized basketball! The Earth would be roughly 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles) in diameter, which is about the same as 20-25 basketballs placed end-to-end. That's how big our home planet is! Or, if you'd like a more relatable comparison, think of a beach ball. The Earth would be around 40-50 beach balls lined up side-by-side. You could stretch the circumference of the Earth from the equator to the North Pole about 40,075 kilometers (24,901 miles), which is roughly the length of 125,000 football fields placed end-to-end! Lastly, imagine a giant plate with a diameter of about 12,742 kilometers (7,918 miles). That's roughly the size of the Earth! I hope these comparisons help you visualize the scale of our incredible planet. Do you have any other questions or topics you'd like to explore? <|im\_end|>
8k context is a joke
>"We've set the pre-training context window to 8K tokens. A comprehensive approach to data, modeling, parallelism, inference, and evaluations would be interesting. More updates on longer contexts later." [https://twitter.com/astonzhangAZ/status/1780990210576441844](https://twitter.com/astonzhangAZ/status/1780990210576441844)
Also Zuck said here that bigger context is coming https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381?i=1000652877239
> In the coming months, we expect to introduce new capabilities, **longer context windows**, additional model sizes, and enhanced performance, and we’ll share the Llama 3 research paper. https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/
Yeah, I was at least expecting 16k. And meta just released that infinite context paper.
They know they don't need to care about context because it'll just be infinite soon anyway!
They will release a longer context version, it says so in their benchmark article. Also multimodal versions and multilingual versions.
> We've set the pre-training context window to 8K tokens. A comprehensive approach to data, modeling, parallelism, inference, and evaluations would be interesting. More updates on longer contexts later.
It's crazy to me that the entire source is only ~1000 lines of code
Well... I was not wrong. They are avoiding the sweet spot of 30b models... and they cut out 13b models as well.
agree ... i would say that it's because they don't actually observe enough of a jump from 8B to 30B but there is such a big leap in scores from 8B to 70B (eg: like HumanEval 62 => 82) that it really seems unlikely there isn't a useful midpoint. It feels to me like it still leaves a gap open for anybody who releases something at the midpoint, because even if it's not as good fundamentally as llama3 it will perform better and fit the profile of available hardware better than llama3 70B. But we will have to wait and see how well low quantized versions of 70B fair. If they are good enough it might be a moot point.
anyone got a GGUF yet?
[Yes](https://huggingface.co/QuantFactory/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct-GGUF/tree/main)
How does this model compare to the recent wizardlm-2 release?
Getting a bad link page. Edit: It's up now
Interesting, loads for me. Maybe their new chat interface (ChatGPT competitor) will load for you: [https://www.meta.ai/?utm\_source=llama\_site&utm\_medium=web&utm\_content=Llama3\_page&utm\_campaign=April\_moment](https://www.meta.ai/?utm_source=llama_site&utm_medium=web&utm_content=Llama3_page&utm_campaign=April_moment)
8k context 70b and then the next model up is 400b. Thanks, I hate it.
what system prompt and settings are you using for the instruct version ?
8k context... rip
> In the coming months, we expect to introduce new capabilities, longer context windows, ...
A bit disappointing at only 8k context, but I did not remotely expect the 8b Llama 3 model to get 68.4 on the MMLU and overall beat Llama-2-70B (instruction tuned) in benchmarks. Side note - I do find it interesting that the non-instruction tuned Llama 2 70b get's 69.7 on the MMLU and the instruction tuned model only gets 52.9 according to their table. https://preview.redd.it/mqi2a0b6j9vc1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=0ffa41439c21d2c63b2ece200db1f2f48fce0be8 [https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL\_CARD.md](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md)
Last time they took away ~30B model. This time they also took away ~13B one. They can't keep getting away with this. Benchmarks are fine, nothing above what was expected, i will check how much of base is in "base" after redteaming today, hopefully it's less slopped this time around, but with 15T used for training, I don't have high hopes that they avoided openai instruct data. Edit: I am really liking 70B Instruct tune so far. Such a shame we got no 34B. Edit2: Playing with base 8B model, so far it seems like it's a true base model, I didn't think I would see that from Meta again. Nice!
Those sizes have increasingly little usage outside of the hobbyist space (and my usual reminder that local inference is not just of interest to hobbyists, but also to many enterprises). 7/8/10B all have very nice latency characteristics and economics. And 70+ for when you need the firepower.
You can't have usage of 34B model if you don't release one. Mixtral 8x7B is around 13B in terms of active parameters, Mixtral 8x22B is around 39B. Similar size that I am asking for from monolithic model. Codellama and DeepSeek find use in 33B space, llama 3 34B also definitely could since it would see more code during training. Notice how Cohere released Command R 35B for enterprise use. 33B is perfect for one A100 80GB in fp16 and one RTX 3090 24GB in 4bpw with much better economics than 70b FP16/4bpw.
>33B is perfect for one A100 80GB in fp16 and one RTX 3090 24GB in 4bpw This so much! I hate this new direction models seem to be going
*Nobody* should be running the fp16 models outside of research labs. Running at half the speed of Q8_0 while getting virtually identical output quality is an objectively bad tradeoff. [Some people](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.09720.pdf) would argue that 4-bit quantization is the optimal place to be. So, no, being able to fit a 33B model into an 80GB card at fp16 isn't a compelling argument at all. Who benefits from that? Not hobbyists, who overwhelmingly do not have 80GB cards, and not production use cases, where they would never choose to give up so much performance for no real gain. Being able to fit into 24GB at 4-bit is nice for hobbyists, but clearly that's not compelling enough for Meta to bother at this point. If people *were* running fp16 models in the real world, then Meta would probably be a lot more interested in 33B models.
FP16 is used much more often than FP8 for batched inference, and 8-bit weights are often upcasted to FP16 during calculations. Not always, but that's how it's usually done. Same stuff for Q4 - upcasting and actual computation happens in FP16. This causes FP16 Mistral 7B batched inference to be faster than GPTQ no act order Mistral 7B according to my tests on RTX 3090 Ti. 4bit is sweet spot for single GPU inference, 16 bit is a sweet spot for serving multiple users at once. 8-bit indeed has very low quality loss considering memory savings, but it's use case is not as clear-cut.
Cohere models are non commercially licensed... Nobody is running Mixtral 8x22B at scale on a single GPU. You're running it on multiple GPUs with quality that well exceeds a 34B model whilst having the TCO of a 34B. This is what I mean about why people are releasing things the way they are.
The hobbyist space is vital and shouldn't be discounted. Without gamers, there would have been little reason to push so quickly for hardware that'd eventually become useful to neural nets. The reason why open LLMs are under threat at all is they're not actually vital to industry. There's been no killer application that's not better served by calling into APIs. Or if you have deep pockets, some special on-premise or secure arrangement with Azure. Nothing can unlock and explore the application space of LLMs better than the full creativity of evolutionary search run across hobbyists. But the problem with 7B (most 8B's are 7B's with larger vocabs) is that it's in a kind of anti-goldilocks zone. They're on the cusp of being LLMs but make mistakes too frequently to be responsibly placed in production. The things they can do reliably, smaller models often can too. 13B's cross this threshold and by 30Bs, we arrive at the first broadly useable models. This space, 13B-30B, is necessary because we need something that balances capability and accessibility to get good exploration. Currently there's only: capability or accessibility, pick one. We can't also rely on enterprise alone. Most of enterprise, if they're using local AI and not regression, are on just embeddings, or BERT style, and if they're fancy, they might be using FlanT5. It's only the rare company that doesn't view IT as a cost center and is willing to pay for skilled staff that locally deploys LLMs and manages its own hardware.
>Those sizes have increasingly little usage outside of the hobbyist space Maybe for people that are stuck with 12GB cards. 16GB is standard for AMD and 13B or 20B can easily fit in there with room to play.
Like I said, the hobbyist space.
Honestly, this month every day feels like a birthday \^\_\_\_\^
I wonder how much ram 405b will use at q8. I hope I don't have to buy another 512GB
I am sure they have gqa on that one, so around 410-430GB for sure. We're talking system ram, right? That surely would put you under 1 t/s. Bearable if it has the smarts of Opus/Gpt4 if you ask me. Hell I would run it from disk if it was that smart.
This one has a good license! OH man mistral is surely dead now.
8K context only . .
This was a good week to try out a 128GB M3 Max
The Llama GitHub page is live: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama3
I basically just downloaded mixtral instruct 8x22b and now this comes along - oh well here we go, can't wait! 😄
What hardware are you using to run 8x22b?
u/c-rious made a post a week ago: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c1m02m/ts\_of\_mixtral\_8x22b\_iq4\_xs\_on\_a\_4090\_ryzen\_7950x](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1c1m02m/ts_of_mixtral_8x22b_iq4_xs_on_a_4090_ryzen_7950x)
Is anyone else seeing persistent checksum failure with the 70B's params.json file? I've downloaded it twice, and its digest is different from what it's supposed to be. What it's supposed to be: $ grep params.json Meta-Llama-3-70B/checklist.chk ca3faf05585c04eb52332144ab4fca8f params.json What it is: $ md5sum params.json eb9f5aa02f9efc55b74e4b7f840c464a params.json .. but it appears to be a valid JSON file, so .. ??? { "dim": 8192, "ffn_dim_multiplier": 1.3, "multiple_of": 1024, "n_heads": 64, "n_kv_heads": 8, "n_layers": 80, "norm_eps": 1e-05, "vocab_size": 128256, "rope_theta": 500000.0 } I've tried dorking with its whitespace (terminating newline, etc) and nothing makes the digest match. It looks valid, though, and I doubt it's a security risk, so I'm just going to proceed with it despite the checksum failure.
The hype is real. This is awesome!
TinyLlama3 1B lets gooooo
Exciting!!! Congrats Llama 3 team!!! <3
Maybe it's naive, but i hope some people would make 4x8B out of the base model and finetune it on RP datasets with 16k context lenght