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

merge

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

Merge Details

Merge Method

This model was merged using the SLERP merge method.

Models Merged

The following models were included in the merge:

• Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r
• meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Configuration

The following YAML configuration was used to produce this model:

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

models:
  - model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
  - model: Salesforce/Llama-xLAM-2-8b-fc-r

# interpolation factors: 0→pure base_model, 1→pure second model
parameters:
  t:
    - filter: self_attn
      value: 0.7    # favor xLAM‑2 in attention
    - filter: mlp
      value: 0.3    # favor Instruct in MLP
    - value: 0.5    # all other layers at 50/50