🚀 Falcon-QAMaster

Falcon-7b-QueAns is a chatbot-like model for Question and Answering. It was built by fine-tuning Falcon-7B on the SQuAD, Adversarial_qa, Trimpixel (Self-Made) datasets. This repo only includes the QLoRA adapters from fine-tuning with 🤗's peft package.

Model Summary

Model Type: Causal decoder-only
Language(s): English
Base Model: Falcon-7B (License: Apache 2.0)
Dataset: SQuAD (License: cc-by-4.0), Adversarial_qa (License: cc-by-sa-4.0), Falcon-RefinedWeb (odc-by), Trimpixel (Self-Made)
License(s): Apache 2.0 inherited from "Base Model" and "Dataset"

Why use Falcon-7B?

It outperforms comparable open-source models (e.g., MPT-7B, StableLM, RedPajama etc.), thanks to being trained on 1,500B tokens of RefinedWeb enhanced with curated corpora. See the OpenLLM Leaderboard.
It features an architecture optimized for inference, with FlashAttention (Dao et al., 2022) and multiquery (Shazeer et al., 2019).
It is made available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing for commercial use, without any royalties or restrictions.

⚠️ This is a finetuned version for specifically question and answering. If you are looking for a version better suited to taking generic instructions in a chat format, we recommend taking a look at Falcon-7B-Instruct.

🔥 Looking for an even more powerful model? Falcon-40B is Falcon-7B's big brother!

Model Details

The model was fine-tuned in 4-bit precision using 🤗 peft adapters, transformers, and bitsandbytes. Training relied on a method called "Low Rank Adapters" (LoRA), specifically the QLoRA variant. The run took approximately 12 hours and was executed on a workstation with a single T4 NVIDIA GPU with 25 GB of available memory. See attached [Colab Notebook] used to train the model.

Model Date

July 13, 2023

Open source falcon 7b large language model fine tuned on SQuAD, Adversarial_qa, Trimpixel datasets for question and answering. QLoRA technique used for fine tuning the model on consumer grade GPU SFTTrainer is also used.

Datasets

Dataset used: SQuAD Dataset Size: 87599 Training Steps: 350
Dataset used: Adversarial_qa Dataset Size: 30000 Training Steps: 400
Dataset used: Trimpixel Dataset Size: 1757 Training Steps: 400

Training procedure

The following bitsandbytes quantization config was used during training:

load_in_8bit: False
load_in_4bit: True
llm_int8_threshold: 6.0
llm_int8_skip_modules: None
llm_int8_enable_fp32_cpu_offload: False
llm_int8_has_fp16_weight: False
bnb_4bit_quant_type: nf4
bnb_4bit_use_double_quant: False
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype: float16