Hi everyone, I’d like to share something that I’ve been working on for the past few days: https://huggingface.co/nsfwthrowitaway69/Venus-120b-v1.0

This model is the result of interleaving layers from three different models: Euryale-1.3-L2-70B, Nous-Hermes-Llama2-70b, and SynthIA-70B-v1.5, resulting in a model that it larger than any of the three used for the merge. I have branches on the repo for exl2 quants at 3.0 and 4.85 bpw, which will allow the model to run in 48GB or 80GB of vram, respectively.

I love using LLMs for RPs and ERPs and so my goal was to create something similar to Goliath, which is honestly the best roleplay model I’ve ever used. I’ve done some initial testing with it and so far the results seem encouraging. I’d love to get some feedback on this from the community! Going forward, my plan is to do more experiments with merging models together, possibly even going even larger than 120b parameters to see where the gains stop.

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    1 year ago

    That’s a great work!

    Just a question… Have anyone tried to fine tune one of those “Frankenstein” models? Some time ago (when the first “Frankenstein” came out, it was a ~20B model) I read here on reddit that lots of users agreed that a fine tune on those merged models would have “better” results since it would help to “smooth” and adapt the merged layers. Probably I lack the technical knowledge needed to understand, so I’m asking…