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About MosaicMPT Models

MosaicMPT Models

MosaicMPT Models is a family of large language models (LLMs) developed by MosaicML. The models are trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and can be used for a variety of tasks, including

  • Natural language understanding (NLU)
  • Natural language generation (NLG)
  • Machine translation
  • Text summarization
  • Question answering
  • Code generation

The MosaicMPT models are available under the Apache 2.0 license, which means that they can be freely used, modified, and redistributed.

Model Architecture

The MosaicMPT models are based on the Transformer architecture, which is a neural network architecture that has been shown to be very effective for NLP tasks. The models are trained using a technique called masked language modeling, which involves predicting the missing words in a sequence of text.

Model Sizes

The MosaicMPT models come in a variety of sizes, ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters. The larger models have more capacity to learn complex patterns in language, but they are also more computationally expensive to train and deploy.

MosaicPretrainedTransformer (MPT) Architecture

The MosaicPretrainedTransformer (MPT) architecture is a modified transformer architecture that is optimized for efficient training and inference. The MPT architecture includes the following changes:

  • Performance-optimized layer implementations
  • Architecture changes that provide greater training stability
  • Elimination of context length limits by replacing positional embeddings with Attention with Linear Biases (ALiBi)

Thanks to these modifications, MPT models can be trained with high throughput efficiency and stable convergence. MPT models can also be served efficiently with both standard HuggingFace pipelines and NVIDIA's FasterTransformer.

Use Cases

The MosaicMPT models can be used for a variety of tasks, including:

  • Natural language understanding (NLU): The MosaicMPT models can be used to understand the meaning of text, such as identifying the entities and relationships in a sentence.
  • Natural language generation (NLG): The MosaicMPT models can be used to generate text, such as writing different kinds of creative content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc.
  • Machine translation: The MosaicMPT models can be used to translate text from one language to another.
  • Text summarization: The MosaicMPT models can be used to summarize a text document into a shorter, more concise version.
  • Question answering: The MosaicMPT models can be used to answer questions about a text document.
  • Code generation: The MosaicMPT models can be used to generate code, such as Python scripts or Java classes.

Availability

The MosaicMPT models are available through the Hugging Face Hub. The models are also available in the TensorFlow Hub, the PyTorch Hub and EasyDeL.

Conclusion

The MosaicMPT models are a powerful family of LLMs that can be used for a variety of tasks. The models are open source and available for free, making them a valuable resource for researchers and developers.

How to Use/Load Them in EasyDeL

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