README.md

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## StripedHyena-Hessian-7B (SH 7B)

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### About 

One of the focus areas at Together Research is new architectures for long context, improved training, and inference performance over the Transformer architecture. Spinning out of a research program from our team and academic collaborators, with roots in **signal processing-inspired sequence models**, we are excited to introduce the **StripedHyena** models. StripedHyena is the **first alternative model competitive with the best open-source Transformers** of similar sizes in short and long-context evaluations.

**StripedHyena-Hessian-7B (SH 7B)** is our **base model** for this release.

- Read more here in [our blog](https://www.together.ai/blog/stripedhyena-7b).
- Play with the model on our [playground](https://api.together.xyz/playground/language/togethercomputer/StripedHyena-Hessian-7B)!
- Dive into the details of our [standalone implementation](https://github.com/togethercomputer/stripedhyena), and our related research: [1](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866), [2](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18780), [3](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05908).

### Model Architecture

StripedHyena is a hybrid architecture composed of multi-head, grouped-query attention and gated convolutions arranged in [Hyena](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10866) blocks, different from traditional decoder-only Transformers.  
  - Costant memory decoding in Hyena blocks via representation of convolutions as state-space models (modal or canonical form), or as truncated filters.
  - Low latency, faster decoding and higher throughput than Transformers. 
  - Improvement to training and inference-optimal scaling laws, compared to optimized Transformer architectures such as Llama-2.
  - Trained on sequences of up to 32k, allowing it to process longer prompts.

### Note

To use StripedHyena outside of the playground, you will need to install custom kernels. Please follow the instructions from the [standalone repository](https://github.com/togethercomputer/stripedhyena).

StripedHyena is a mixed precision model. Make sure to keep your `poles` and `residues` in `float32` precision, especially for longer prompts or training.