SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-Plus

This model is a finetuned version of HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct, aiming to maximize knowledge in a small 135M parameter model.

⚠️ Consider this model a creative text generator. Without additional finetuning, it gives wildly inaccurate answers. Don't trust the output of this model without additional verification.

Model Details

• Base Model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
• Finetuning Datasets:
  • agentlans/crash-course (120K subset)
  • Intel/orca_dpo_pairs
• Training Procedure:
  1. Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on crash-course for 1 epoch.
  2. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) on orca_dpo_pairs.

Intended Uses

For research, experimentation, and educational purposes where a small instruction-following model is desired.

Limitations

• Hallucinations: Prone to generating incorrect information due to its small size.
• Repetitive Output: May produce repetitive text.

Training Details

Both SFT and DPO share common settings: liger_kernel booster, LoRA fine-tuning, custom model, BF16 compute type, batch size of 2, and a cosine scheduler with a learning rate of 5e-5. RSLoRA is enabled with a rank of 16 and alpha of 32.

The main differences are in the dataset and training specifics. SFT uses CrashCourse_120K with packing enabled and LoRA dropout of 0, while DPO uses orca_pairs with packing disabled and a LoRA dropout of 0.95.

Evaluation

Provides coherent and creative answers but may often be incorrect. Thorough evaluation is recommended before deployment.