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Stable Beluga

by StabilityAI

About the model:

Llama-based model fine-tuned on Orca.

Model type:

Text

Model performance class:

Full

Link to the model:

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2

Base models:

Llama-2-70B

End model:

StableBeluga2

End model license:

Stable Beluga Non-Commercial Community License

About the organisation:

UK-based AI company known for its diffusion models.

Link to the organisation:

https://stability.ai/

Model release date:

July 2023

Availability

Base Model Data

Data nowhere disclosed or documented, and described only in the vaguest terms in a corporate preprint released by Meta

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/llama-2-open-foundation-and-fine-tuned-chat-models/

End User Model Data

Says: 'Stable Beluga 2 is trained on our internal Orca-style dataset', 'created synthetically using high-quality instructions' from COT Submix Original, NIV2 Submix Original, FLAN 2021 Submix Original, T0 Submix Original.

Base Model Weights

Download only after requesting access; requires signing a consent form

https://ai.meta.com/resources/models-and-libraries/llama-downloads/

End User Model Weights

Instruction-tuned model weights provided as binary

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2/tree/main

Training Code

No repository with open code related to training, fine-tuning or evaluation found

Documentation

Code Documentation

Code on HuggingFace only covers minimal examples; no documentation available.

Hardware Architecture

Hyperparameters provided, but no hardware.

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2#model-details

Preprint

Preprint from Microsoft describes Orca method of finetuning using GPT4-derived synthetic data, but no details of this particular architecture

https://huggingface.co/papers/2306.02707

Paper

No peer-reviewed paper found

Modelcard

There is a model card, but it provides only a minimum of detail

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2

Datasheet

Datasheet not provided.

Access

Package

Model available on Ollama.

https://ollama.com/library/stable-beluga

API and Meta Prompts

model too large to run on HuggingFace free inference API

Licenses

Usage requires signing StabilityAI's bespoke 'Stable Beluga Non-Commercial Community License', not an OSI recognised open license

https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/StableBeluga2/blob/main/LICENSE.txt

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