README.md

---
language:
- 'no'
- nb
- nn
inference: true
tags:
- mistral
- norwegian
- instruction
- chat
license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: text-generation
datasets:
- CohereForAI/aya_dataset
- OpenAssistant/oasst1
- OpenAssistant/oasst2
- laion/OIG
- HuggingFaceH4/no_robots
- databricks/databricks-dolly-15k
- glaiveai/glaive-code-assistant-v2
---

# **Instruction-tuned NorMistral-7b-warm**

<img align="center" src="https://huggingface.co/ltg/norbert3-base/resolve/main/norbert.png" width=12.5%>

This is a model instruction-tuned on open datasets released under the most permissive apache-2.0 licence — thus we can release this model under the same license and make it openly available for commercial applications.

The released weights are still a work in progress and they might change in the future. This is the first iteration of instruction-tuning our NorMistral models and it currently uses only the SFT phase without any preference optimization. Please let us know your feedback to improve the model in future releases.

## Finetuning corpus

The corpus was compiled by this process:

1. We gathered all openly available datasets: [Aya](https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/aya_dataset), [OASST 1](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1), [OASST 2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst2), [OIG-small-chip2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/OIG), [No Robots](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceH4/no_robots), [Dolly](https://huggingface.co/datasets/databricks/databricks-dolly-15k) and [Glaive code assistant](Glaive-code-assistant-v2).
2. These were first manually inspected and filtered, and then automatically filtered with [Mixtral-8x7B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1) to remove incorrect, offensive, non-English and American-centric responses.
3. The responses were augmented to be more descriptive by [Mixtral-8x7B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1).
4. Since most of that dataset contains only a single dialogue turn, we generated more turns using [Mixtral-8x7B](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1).
5. Finally, we translated the resulting dataset into Bokmål and Nynorsk using [NorMistral-7b-warm](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm).

## Prompt format

NorMistral uses ChatML-like format for structuring the (multi-turn) conversations. An example of a prompt in this format looks like the following (notice the special `<|im_start|>` and `<|im_end|>` tokens).

```
<|im_start|> user
Hva er hovedstaden i Norge?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|> assistant
Hovedstaden i Norge er Oslo. Denne byen ligger i den sørøstlige delen av landet, ved Oslofjorden. Oslo er en av de raskest voksende byene i Europa, og den er kjent for sin rike historie, kultur og moderne arkitektur. Noen populære turistattraksjoner i Oslo inkluderer Vigelandsparken, som viser mer enn 200 skulpturer laget av den berømte norske skulptøren Gustav Vigeland, og det kongelige slott, som er den offisielle residensen til Norges kongefamilie. Oslo er også hjemsted for mange museer, gallerier og teatre, samt mange restauranter og barer som tilbyr et bredt utvalg av kulinariske og kulturelle opplevelser.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|> user
Gi meg en liste over de beste stedene å besøke i hovedstaden<|im_end|>
<|im_start|> assistant

```

This prompt-format is available as a [chat template](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/chat_templating) in the NorMistral's tokens, so it can be easily applied by calling the
`tokenizer.apply_chat_template()` method:

```python
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Hva er hovedstaden i Norge?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hovedstaden i Norge er Oslo. Denne byen ligger i den sørøstlige delen av landet, ved Oslofjorden. Oslo er en av de raskest voksende byene i Europa, og den er kjent for sin rike historie, kultur og moderne arkitektur. Noen populære turistattraksjoner i Oslo inkluderer Vigelandsparken, som viser mer enn 200 skulpturer laget av den berømte norske skulptøren Gustav Vigeland, og det kongelige slott, som er den offisielle residensen til Norges kongefamilie. Oslo er også hjemsted for mange museer, gallerier og teatre, samt mange restauranter og barer som tilbyr et bredt utvalg av kulinariske og kulturelle opplevelser."}
    {"role": "user", "content": "Gi meg en liste over de beste stedene å besøke i hovedstaden"}
]
gen_input = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt")
model.generate(**gen_input)
```

When tokenizing messages for generation, set `add_generation_prompt=True` when calling `apply_chat_template()`. This will append `<|im_start|>assistant\n` to your prompt, to ensure
that the model continues with an assistant response.


## About the base model

NorMistral-7b-warm is a large Norwegian language model initialized from [Mistral-7b-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1) and 
continuously pretrained on a total of 260 billion subword tokens (using six repetitions of open Norwegian texts).

This model is a part of the NORA.LLM family developed in collaboration between [the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo](https://huggingface.co/ltg), [the High Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) project](https://hplt-project.org/), [the National Library of Norway](https://huggingface.co/NbAiLab), and [the University of Turku](https://huggingface.co/TurkuNLP).
All the models are pre-trained on the same dataset and with the same tokenizer.
NorMistral-7b-warm has over 7 billion parameters and is based on [the Mistral architecture](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1).

The NORA.LLM language model family includes (as of now):
- [**NorMistral-7b-warm**](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm) -- an LLM initialized from [Mistral-7b-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1) and continuously pretrained on Norwegian data;
- [**NorMistral-7b-scratch**](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-scratch) -- a Mistral-based LLM pretrained from scratch on Norwegian data;
- [**NorBLOOM-7b-scratch**](https://huggingface.co/norallm/NorBLOOM-7b-scratch) -- a BLOOM-based LLM pretrained from scratch on Norwegian data.

_____
## Quantization

### Provided files

| Name | Quant method | Bits Per Weight | Size | Max RAM/VRAM required | Use case |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ----- |
| [normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q3_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm/blob/main/normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q3_K_M.gguf) | Q3_K_M | 3.89 | 3.28 GB| 5.37 GB | very small, high quality loss |
| [normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm/blob/main/normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf) | Q4_K_M | 4.83 | 4.07 GB| 6.16 GB | medium, balanced quality - recommended |
| [normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q5_K_M.gguf](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm/blob/main/normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q5_K_M.gguf) | Q5_K_M | 5.67 | 4.78 GB| 6.87 GB | large, very low quality loss - recommended |
| [normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q6_K.gguf](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm/blob/main/normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q6_K.gguf) | Q6_K | 6.56 | 5.54 GB| 7.63 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss |
| [normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q8_0.gguf](https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-7b-warm/blob/main/normistral-7b-warm-instruct.Q8_0.gguf) | Q8_0 | 8.50 | 7.17 GB| 9.26 GB | very large, extremely low quality loss - not recommended |

### How to run from Python code

You can use GGUF models from Python using the [llama-cpp-python](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python) for example.

#### How to load this model in Python code, using llama-cpp-python

For full documentation, please see: [llama-cpp-python docs](https://llama-cpp-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

#### First install the package

Run one of the following commands, according to your system:

```shell
# Base llama-ccp-python with no GPU acceleration
pip install llama-cpp-python
# With NVidia CUDA acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CUBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with OpenBLAS acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_BLAS=ON -DLLAMA_BLAS_VENDOR=OpenBLAS" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with CLBLast acceleration
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_CLBLAST=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with AMD ROCm GPU acceleration (Linux only)
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_HIPBLAS=on" pip install llama-cpp-python
# Or with Metal GPU acceleration for macOS systems only
CMAKE_ARGS="-DLLAMA_METAL=on" pip install llama-cpp-python

# In windows, to set the variables CMAKE_ARGS in PowerShell, follow this format; eg for NVidia CUDA:
$env:CMAKE_ARGS = "-DLLAMA_OPENBLAS=on"
pip install llama-cpp-python
```

#### Simple llama-cpp-python example code

```python
from llama_cpp import Llama

# Directly from huggingface-hub (requires huggingface-hub to be installed)
# Set gpu_layers to the number of layers to offload to GPU. Set to 0 if no GPU acceleration is available on your system.
llm = Llama.from_pretrained(
  repo_id="norallm/normistral-7b-warm-instruct",  # HuggingFace repository containing the GGUF files.
  filename="*Q4_K_M.gguf", # suffix of the filename containing the level of quantization. 
  n_ctx=32768,  # The max sequence length to use - note that longer sequence lengths require much more resources
  n_threads=8,            # The number of CPU threads to use, tailor to your system and the resulting performance
  n_gpu_layers=16         # The number of layers to offload to GPU, if you have GPU acceleration available
)

# Simple inference example
output = llm(
  """<s><|im_start|> user
Hva kan jeg bruke einstape til?<|im_end|><|im_start|> assitant
""", # Prompt
  max_tokens=512,  # Generate up to 512 tokens
  stop=["<|im_end|>"],   # Example stop token
  echo=True,       # Whether to echo the prompt
  temperature=0.3  # Temperature to set, for Q3_K_M, Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, and Q6_0 it is recommended to set it relatively low.
)

# Chat Completion API

llm.create_chat_completion(
    messages = [
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": Hva kan jeg bruke einstape til?"
        }
    ]
)
```