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HomeLLMsMistral 7B Instruct v0.2

Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2

by mistralai

Open source · 2M downloads · 3117 likes

4.4
(3117 reviews)ChatAPI & Local
About

The Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 model is a refined version of the base Mistral 7B, specifically designed to follow precise instructions. With an extended context window of 32,000 tokens, it excels in understanding and generating detailed, contextualized responses, even for complex or lengthy queries. Its core capabilities include processing dialogues, synthesizing information, and providing conversational assistance, all while maintaining high fluency and coherence. Ideal for applications such as virtual assistants, document analysis, or automating writing tasks, it stands out for its accuracy and adaptability. However, it requires additional moderation mechanisms for secure deployment in sensitive environments.

Documentation

Model Card for Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Encode and Decode with mistral_common

Py
from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.messages import UserMessage
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest
 
mistral_models_path = "MISTRAL_MODELS_PATH"
 
tokenizer = MistralTokenizer.v1()
 
completion_request = ChatCompletionRequest(messages=[UserMessage(content="Explain Machine Learning to me in a nutshell.")])
 
tokens = tokenizer.encode_chat_completion(completion_request).tokens

Inference with mistral_inference

Py
from mistral_inference.transformer import Transformer
from mistral_inference.generate import generate

model = Transformer.from_folder(mistral_models_path)
out_tokens, _ = generate([tokens], model, max_tokens=64, temperature=0.0, eos_id=tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.eos_id)

result = tokenizer.decode(out_tokens[0])

print(result)

Inference with hugging face transformers

Py
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
 
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")
model.to("cuda")
 
generated_ids = model.generate(tokens, max_new_tokens=1000, do_sample=True)

# decode with mistral tokenizer
result = tokenizer.decode(generated_ids[0].tolist())
print(result)

[!TIP] PRs to correct the transformers tokenizer so that it gives 1-to-1 the same results as the mistral_common reference implementation are very welcome!


The Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 Large Language Model (LLM) is an instruct fine-tuned version of the Mistral-7B-v0.2.

Mistral-7B-v0.2 has the following changes compared to Mistral-7B-v0.1

  • 32k context window (vs 8k context in v0.1)
  • Rope-theta = 1e6
  • No Sliding-Window Attention

For full details of this model please read our paper and release blog post.

Instruction format

In order to leverage instruction fine-tuning, your prompt should be surrounded by [INST] and [/INST] tokens. The very first instruction should begin with a begin of sentence id. The next instructions should not. The assistant generation will be ended by the end-of-sentence token id.

E.g.

CSS
text = "<s>[INST] What is your favourite condiment? [/INST]"
"Well, I'm quite partial to a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It adds just the right amount of zesty flavour to whatever I'm cooking up in the kitchen!</s> "
"[INST] Do you have mayonnaise recipes? [/INST]"

This format is available as a chat template via the apply_chat_template() method:

Python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2")

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "What is your favourite condiment?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well, I'm quite partial to a good squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It adds just the right amount of zesty flavour to whatever I'm cooking up in the kitchen!"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Do you have mayonnaise recipes?"}
]

encodeds = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt")

model_inputs = encodeds.to(device)
model.to(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(model_inputs, max_new_tokens=1000, do_sample=True)
decoded = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids)
print(decoded[0])

Troubleshooting

  • If you see the following error:
Arduino
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/transformers/models/auto/auto_factory.py", line 482, in from_pretrained
config, kwargs = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
File "/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py", line 1022, in from_pretrained
config_class = CONFIG_MAPPING[config_dict["model_type"]]
File "/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py", line 723, in getitem
raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'mistral'

Installing transformers from source should solve the issue pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers

This should not be required after transformers-v4.33.4.

Limitations

The Mistral 7B Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanisms. We're looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments requiring moderated outputs.

The Mistral AI Team

Albert Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Arthur Mensch, Blanche Savary, Chris Bamford, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Diego de las Casas, Emma Bou Hanna, Florian Bressand, Gianna Lengyel, Guillaume Bour, Guillaume Lample, Lélio Renard Lavaud, Louis Ternon, Lucile Saulnier, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Pierre Stock, Teven Le Scao, Théophile Gervet, Thibaut Lavril, Thomas Wang, Timothée Lacroix, William El Sayed.

Capabilities & Tags
transformerspytorchsafetensorsmistraltext-generationfinetunedmistral-commonconversationaltext-generation-inference
Links & Resources
Specifications
CategoryChat
AccessAPI & Local
LicenseOpen Source
PricingOpen Source
Parameters7B parameters
Rating
4.4

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