I’m struggling to get the 7b models to do something useful, obviously I’m doing something wrong as it appears many people strive for 7b models.

But myself I can not get them to follow instructions, they keep repeating stuff and occasionally they start to converse with themselves.

Does anyone have any pointers what I’m doing wrong?

  • Naiw80OPBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Update on this topic…

    I realised I’ve made some mistakes, the reason to start with I asked about 7b models is because the computer I’m using is resource constrained (and normally I use a frontend for the actual interaction)

    But because I only have 8GB RAM in the computer I decided to go with llama.cpp and this is obviously where things went wrong.

    First of all I obviously messed up the prompt, not that I notice any significant difference now when I realised but it did not follow the expected format for the model I was using.

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    But the key thing appeared to be I’ve been using the -i (interactive) argument and thought it would work like a chat session, well it appears to do for a few queries but as stated in the original post then all of sudden the model starts to converse with itself (filling in for my queries etc).
    But it turns out I should have used --instruct all along, and after I realised now things started to work a lot better (although not perfect).

    Finally I decided to give neural-chat a try and dang it appears to do most things I ask it to with great success.

    Thanks all for your feedback and comments.