flan-alpaca-xl
Maintainer: declare-lab
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Model overview
flan-alpaca-xl is a large language model developed by the declare-lab team. It is an instruction-tuned model based on combining the Flan and Alpaca datasets. The model was fine-tuned on a 3 billion parameter base model using a single NVIDIA A6000 GPU.
Similar instruction-tuned models like flan-t5-xl and flan-ul2 have shown strong performance on a variety of benchmarks, including reasoning and question answering tasks. The declare-lab team has also evaluated the safety of these types of models using the Red-Eval framework, finding that GPT-4 and ChatGPT can be "jailbroken" with concerning frequency.
Model inputs and outputs
Inputs
- Text: The model accepts natural language text as input, which can include instructions, questions, or other prompts for the model to respond to.
Outputs
- Text: The model generates natural language text in response to the input. This can include answers to questions, completions of instructions, or other relevant text.
Capabilities
The flan-alpaca-xl model has been shown to excel at a variety of language tasks, including problem-solving, reasoning, and question answering. The declare-lab team has also benchmarked the model on the large-scale InstructEval benchmark, demonstrating strong performance compared to other open-source instruction-tuned models.
What can I use it for?
The flan-alpaca-xl model could be useful for a wide range of natural language processing tasks, such as:
- Question answering: The model can be used to answer questions on a variety of topics by generating relevant and informative responses.
- Task completion: The model can be used to complete instructions or perform specific tasks, such as code generation, summarization, or translation.
- Conversational AI: The model's language understanding and generation capabilities could be leveraged to build more natural and engaging conversational AI systems.
However, as noted in the declare-lab maintainer profile, these types of models should be used with caution and their safety and fairness should be carefully assessed before deployment in real-world applications.
Things to try
One interesting aspect of the flan-alpaca-xl model is its ability to leverage instruction-tuning from both human and machine-generated data. This approach, exemplified by the Flacuna model, has shown promising results in improving the model's problem-solving capabilities compared to the original Vicuna model.
Researchers and developers interested in exploring the boundaries of language model safety and robustness may also find the Red-Eval framework and the declare-lab team's work on "jailbreaking" large language models to be a useful area of investigation.
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