| Even when | |
| the class template is appropriate for your model, we strongly recommend overriding the default template by | |
| setting the chat_template attribute explicitly to make it clear to users that your model has been correctly configured | |
| for chat, and to future-proof in case the default templates are ever altered or deprecated. | |
| What template should I use? | |
| When setting the template for a model that's already been trained for chat, you should ensure that the template | |
| exactly matches the message formatting that the model saw during training, or else you will probably experience | |
| performance degradation. |