I came across this new finetuned model based on Openchat 3.5 which is apparently trained used Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF).
https://huggingface.co/berkeley-nest/Starling-LM-7B-alpha
Check out this tweet: https://twitter.com/bindureddy/status/1729253715549602071


Here is some info I posted for the 11b version of this model, but it is probably useful for the original 7B version as well.
I think I found the key to avoid repetitions and long rambling answers, which this model has a tendency to do. Hopefully a further fine tune will reduce it. The key is to reduce creativity all the way down, and make the model deterministic. How do you do that?, you may ask. Easy, it is controlled by the following 3 inference parameters: temp, top_p, and top_k
With the following default settings I often get repetitions or additional rambling information:
If I use the following values instead, to make the model deterministic, the problem seems to be gone:
Please note that if you want to use the model for story writing, maybe you get better results by dialing up the creativity.
Here is my complete config file for LM Studio:
A few words about the above:
As a bonus, here is my config for generating code, which according to my limited testing, this model seems to be surprisingly good at: