MiniPLM-llama3.1-212M

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MiniPLM-llama3.1-212M is a 212M model with the LLaMA3.1 achitecture pre-trained from scratch on the Pile using the MiniPLM knowledge distillation framework with the offcial Qwen1.5-1.8B as the teacher model. This model shows the flexibility of the MiniPLM framework in conducting knowledge distillation across model families.

We also open-source the pre-training corpus refined by Difference Sampling in MiniPLM for reproducibility.

Evaluation

MiniPLM models achieves better performance given the same computation and scales well across model sizes:

Baseline Models

• Conventional Pre-Training

Citation

@article{miniplm,
    title={MiniPLM: Knowledge Distillation for Pre-Training Language Models}, 
    author={Yuxian Gu and Hao Zhou and Fandong Meng and Jie Zhou and Minlie Huang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.17215},
    year={2024}
}