barretts/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r-dare_ties-Instruct

merge

This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using mergekit.

Merge Details

Merge Method

This model was merged using the DARE TIES merge method using meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct as a base.

Models Merged

The following models were included in the merge:

• Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r

Configuration

The following YAML configuration was used to produce this model:

merge_method: dare_ties
base_model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
dtype: bfloat16

models:
  - model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct     # no params needed for the base
  - model: Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r
    parameters:
      weight: 0.5
      density: 0.5

parameters:
  normalize: true   # normalize weights (so they sum to 1 internally)