T145/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-TIES

Rombo Llama Merge Test

This merge provides a baseline for performance when the instruct model is merged on the base. It follows Rombodawg's merge method on Qwen models, and should prove if it works with Llama models. Running hypothesis is that the IFEval benchmark will get nuked. A success will be little to no performance change over the vanilla instruct model.

Merge Details

Merge Method

This model was merged using the TIES merge method using unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B as a base.

Models Merged

The following models were included in the merge:

• unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Configuration

The following YAML configuration was used to produce this model:

base_model: unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
dtype: bfloat16
merge_method: ties
parameters:
  density: 1.0
  weight: 1.0
slices:
- sources:
  - layer_range: [0, 32]
    model: unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
    parameters:
      density: 1.0
      weight: 1.0
  - layer_range: [0, 32]
    model: unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
tokenizer_source: unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct