Mayank Mishra

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Aurora-M

The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order

Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order (2404.00399)

Pretrained language models underpin several AI applications, but their high computational cost for training limits accessibility. Initiatives such as BLOOM and StarCoder aim to democratize access to pretrained models for collaborative community development. However, such existing models face challenges: limited multilingual capabilities, continual pretraining causing catastrophic forgetting, whereas pretraining from scratch is computationally expensive, and compliance with AI safety and development laws. This paper presents Aurora-M, a 15B parameter multilingual open-source model trained on English, Finnish, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese, and code. Continually pretrained from StarCoderPlus on 435 billion additional tokens, Aurora-M surpasses 2 trillion tokens in total training token count. It is the first open-source multilingual model fine-tuned on human-reviewed safety instructions, thus aligning its development not only with conventional red-teaming considerations, but also with the specific concerns articulated in the Biden-Harris Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. Aurora-M is rigorously evaluated across various tasks and languages, demonstrating robustness against catastrophic forgetting and outperforming alternatives in multilingual settings, particularly in safety evaluations.
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We would like to announce our Aurora-M multilingual models which is based on Starcoderplus.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ontocord/status/1772778544051155029
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7178521998845759488/
Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/aurora
Arxiv: Aurora-M: The First Open Source Multilingual Language Model Red-teamed according to the U.S. Executive Order (2404.00399)

Current LLMs are very susceptible to generating toxic, harmful and even dangerous content. They can also generate outputs with gender or racial biases. The Biden-Harris Executive Order https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence) sets forth guidelines on what is considered a safe AI system.
Following up on these guidelines, we present the world's first open source Biden-Harris Executive Order Red teamed Multilingual Language Model: Aurora-M. Inspired by BigScience, the model is trained on 5 languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese and Finnish.

* Red teamed model: aurora-m/aurora-m-biden-harris-redteamed tuned according to the order mentioned above)
* Base model: aurora-m/aurora-m-base (not safety tuned)
* Instruct model: aurora-m/aurora-m-instruct (not safety tuned)

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Current LLMs are very susceptible to generating toxic, harmful and even dangerous content. They can also generate outputs with gender or racial biases.

The Biden-Harris Executive Order (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence) sets forth guidelines on what is considered a safe AI system.

Following up on these guidelines, we present the world's first open source Biden-Harris Executive Order Red teamed Multilingual Language Model: Aurora-M.

The model is trained on 5 languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese and Finnish.

Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/aurora
Paper coming out soon.

Base model: aurora-m/aurora-m-base (not safety tuned)
Instruct model: aurora-m/aurora-m-instruct (not safety tuned)
Red teamed model: aurora-m/aurora-m-biden-harris-redteamed (safety tuned according to the order mentioned above)
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Current LLMs are very susceptible to generating toxic, harmful and even dangerous content. They can also generate outputs with gender or racial biases.

The Biden-Harris Executive Order (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence) sets forth guidelines on what is considered a safe AI system.

Following up on these guidelines, we present the world's first open source Biden-Harris Executive Order Red teamed Multilingual Language Model: Aurora-M.

The model is trained on 5 languages: English, Hindi, Japanese, Vietnamese and Finnish.

Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/aurora
Paper coming out soon.

Base model: aurora-m/aurora-m-base (not safety tuned)
Instruct model: aurora-m/aurora-m-instruct (not safety tuned)
Red teamed model: aurora-m/aurora-m-biden-harris-redteamed (safety tuned according to the order mentioned above)
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I have just published my first blog post.

While FlashAttention has been readily integrated into HuggingFace transformers, there are much higher gains to be had (at least theoretically) for finetuning models with examples of variable sequence lengths in a batch.

For a deeper dive, please go through my blog at https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/padding-free-transformer.
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I have just published my first blog post.

While FlashAttention has been readily integrated into HuggingFace transformers, there are much higher gains to be had (at least theoretically) for finetuning models with examples of variable sequence lengths in a batch.

For a deeper dive, please go through my blog at https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/padding-free-transformer.
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yeah, its just that people have not been using this for finetuning where it can give considerable memory savings. I guess the issue is the core design of HF transformers.

I am planning to release the code for this sometime soon :)

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I have just published my first blog post.

While FlashAttention has been readily integrated into HuggingFace transformers, there are much higher gains to be had (at least theoretically) for finetuning models with examples of variable sequence lengths in a batch.

For a deeper dive, please go through my blog at https://huggingface.co/blog/mayank-mishra/padding-free-transformer.
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Check out quantized weights from ISTA-DAS Lab directly in their organisation page: https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab ! With official weights of AQLM (for 2bit quantization) & QMoE (1-bit MoE quantization)

Read more about these techniques below:

AQLM paper: Extreme Compression of Large Language Models via Additive Quantization (2401.06118)
QMoE: QMoE: Practical Sub-1-Bit Compression of Trillion-Parameter Models (2310.16795)

Some useful links below:

AQLM repo: https://github.com/Vahe1994/AQLM
How to use AQLM & transformers: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quantization#aqlm
How to use AQLM & PEFT: https://huggingface.co/docs/peft/developer_guides/quantization#aqlm-quantizaion

Great work from @BlackSamorez and team !
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⭐ Today we’re releasing The Stack v2 & StarCoder2: a series of 3B, 7B & 15B code generation models trained on 3.3 to 4.5 trillion tokens of code:

- StarCoder2-15B matches or outperforms CodeLlama 34B, and approaches DeepSeek-33B on multiple benchmarks.
- StarCoder2-3B outperforms StarCoderBase-15B and similar sized models.
- The Stack v2 a 4x larger dataset than the Stack v1, resulting in 900B unique code tokens πŸš€
As always, we released everything from models and datasets to curation code. Enjoy!

πŸ”— StarCoder2 collection: bigcode/starcoder2-65de6da6e87db3383572be1a
πŸ”— Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17iGn3c-sYNiLyRSY-A85QOzgzGnGiVI3/view
πŸ”— BlogPost: https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder2
πŸ”— Code Leaderboard: bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderboard