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Friday, 14 July 2023

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B: A Cost-Effective Language Model

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B: Cost-effective language modeling - symbolic image

Introduction

Language models are powerful tools that can generate natural language texts based on a given input or context. They have many applications in natural language processing, such as text summarization, question answering, dialogue generation, and more. However, most of the existing language models are either pre-trained on large corpora of text that may not reflect the specific domain or task of interest, or fine-tuned on small datasets that may not capture the diversity and richness of natural language.

To address this challenge, a team of researchers from Alignment Lab, a research organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence alignment and safety, has developed a new language model called OpenOrca-Preview1-13B. This model is part of the OpenOrca project, which aims to create open-ended text generation models that can generate coherent and diverse texts across various domains and tasks.

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B is a language model developed by the Open-Orca team. The model was developed as an attempt to reproduce the dataset generated for Microsoft’s Orca Paper. The motto behind the development of this model was to beat the current state of the art for public model releases in this class, for very less training budget.

What is OpenOrca-Preview1-13B?

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B is a language model that is fine-tuned on a small subset (6%) of the Open-Orca instructions dataset1. The Open-Orca instructions dataset is an attempt to reproduce the Orca paper.

Key Features of OpenOrca-Preview1-13B

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B has some impressive features that make it a unique and powerful language model. Some of these features are:

  • It is fine-tuned on a small subset (6%) of the Open-Orca instructions dataset, which is a large and diverse collection of text from various sources, such as books, news articles, Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, and more. This means that the model can generate texts for any domain or task, without requiring any additional data or fine-tuning.
  • The fine-tuning process used 8x A100-80G GPUs for 15 hours, which is a relatively short time compared to other language models that require days or weeks of training. This means that the model is efficient and scalable and can be easily updated or improved with new data or techniques.
  • The commodity cost of the fine-tuning was less than $200, which is a very low price compared to other language models that cost thousands or millions of dollars to train. This means that the model is affordable and accessible and can be used by anyone who has an interest or need for open-ended text generation.
  • The team claims that they achieved 60% of the improvement in reasoning performance over Vicuna, which is another language model based on GPT-3 that was used as a baseline in the Orca paper. This means that the model is effective and intelligent, and can handle challenging reasoning tasks that require logic, common sense, and general knowledge.

Capabilities/Use Case of OpenOrca-Preview1-13B

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B is not only a powerful language model for open-ended text generation, but also a versatile tool for various natural language processing tasks that involve understanding and manipulating text. Some of the examples are:

Text generation: This task involves creating natural language texts that are coherent, fluent, and relevant to a given input or context. For example, you can use OpenOrca-Preview1-13B to generate:

  • Content for articles, stories, or blogs that are informative, engaging, and original.
  • Dialogues for chatbots, games, or simulations that are interactive, realistic, and personalized.
  • Captions for images or videos that are descriptive, concise, and catchy.

Text classification: This task involves assigning text to predefined classes or categories based on its content or meaning. For example, you can use OpenOrca-Preview1-13B to classify:

  • Emails or messages as spam or not spam based on their subject or body.
  • Texts as positive, negative, or neutral based on their sentiment or emotion.
  • Documents as belonging to different topics or domains based on their keywords or themes.

Sentiment analysis: This task involves identifying and extracting the sentiment or emotion expressed in a piece of text. For example, you can use OpenOrca-Preview1-13B to analyze:

  • Customer feedback or reviews as satisfied, dissatisfied, or neutral based on their tone or language.
  • Social media posts or comments as happy, sad, angry, or surprised based on their emojis or expressions.
  • Product descriptions or features as appealing, boring, or confusing based on their adjectives or modifiers.

Performance evaluation with other Models

The OpenOrca-Preview1-13B model has been evaluated on hard reasoning tasks from BigBench-Hard and AGIEval, as outlined in the Orca paper. The average performance of OpenOrca-Preview1-13B on BigBench-Hard was 0.3753, while its average performance on AGIEval was 0.3638.

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B: Performance Evaluation on different benchmarks

source - https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/OpenOrca-Preview1-13B

In the Orca paper, the performance of their model was measured relative to Vicuna on these evaluations. The OpenOrca team has done the same and found that their score averages to approximately 60% of the total improvement that was shown in the Orca paper. This means that OpenOrca-Preview1-13B achieved 60% of the improvement with only 6% of the data!

The OpenOrca team will report their results on HuggingFace website on Open LLM Leaderboard once they receive them. This will provide further insight into the performance of OpenOrca-Preview1-13B compared to other models.

How to access and use this model?

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B is a language model that can be accessed and used through the Hugging Face website. Kindly visit the Hugging Face website or contacting the OpenOrca team for more information about local usage or instructions for using the model.

If you are interested to learn more about OpenOrca-Preview1-13B model, all relevant links including Orca paper and Orca article that I published recently are provided under 'source' section at the end of this article.

Conclusion

OpenOrca-Preview1-13B is an impressive language model created by the Open Orca team. It has been trained on a large and diverse dataset of text from various sources, but only using a small fraction (6%) of it. It has demonstrated its ability to generate high-quality texts for any domain or task, without requiring any additional data or fine-tuning. It has also shown its intelligence and alignment by performing well on challenging reasoning tasks and avoiding harmful or misleading texts. It will be exciting to see how this model evolves and improves when trained on the full dataset.


source
OpenOrca Model - https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca/OpenOrca-Preview1-13B
open-Orca Space - https://huggingface.co/Open-Orca
company link - https://alignmentlab.ai/
Orca paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.02707
article on Orca - https://socialviews81.blogspot.com/2023/06/orca-13-billion-parameter-model-that.html

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