allura-org/TQ2.5-14B-Neon-v1

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Qwen2.5-14B Neon v1

RP finetune of Supernova-Medius. Turned out surprisingly nice on it's own, I honestly made it only as a merge fuel, but it impressed me and Prodeus enough to release it separately (history repeats I guess, Sugarquill also started out this way). Quite interesting prose, definitely quite distinct from Supernova or EVA for that matter. Instruction following is decent as well. Not really much to say about this one, just a decent RP model, tbh. Euryale-inspired I guess.

Model was trained by Auri.

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Training notes

Model was trained on a dataset consisting of 77M tokens of synthetic RP and short story gen data. Training took around 2 hours on 8xH100 SXM node. Training config was more or less reused from Sugarquill, and it worked fairly well again. Had the node crash after finishing the training and merging in the LoRA, so I had to merge it with MergeKit on a separate node, otherwise everything was smooth.

Huge thanks to Retis Labs for sponsoring this run!

Format

Model responds to ChatML instruct formatting, exactly like it's base model.

<|im_start|>system
{system message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{user message}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
{response}<|im_end|>

Recommended Samplers

My classic stable Qwen setup works quite well:

Temperature - 0.8
Min-P - 0.05
Top-A - 0.3
Repetition Penalty - 1.03

Training config

See Axolotl config

axolotl version 0.6.0

# Model
base_model: arcee-ai/SuperNova-Medius
strict: false

# Liger Kernels (optimization)
plugins:
  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
liger_rope: true
liger_rms_norm: true
liger_swiglu: true
liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: true

# Output and HuggingFace
output_dir: /workspace/axolotl/TQ-2.5-14B-Neon
hub_model_id: allura-org/TQ-2.5-14B-Neon-LoRA
hf_use_auth_token: true
hub_strategy: "all_checkpoints"

# WandB
wandb_project: allura-org
wandb_entity:
wandb_name: TQ-2.5-14B-Neon-1

# Data
chat_template: chatml
#train_on_inputs: false
group_by_length: false
datasets:
  - path: allura-org/neon-41k
    type: chat_template
    field_messages: conversations
    message_field_role: from
    message_field_content: value

## Evaluation
val_set_size: 0.01
evals_per_epoch: 4
eval_table_size:
eval_max_new_tokens: 128

# Technical aspects
sequence_len: 16384
save_safetensors: true
saves_per_epoch: 2
logging_steps: 1
special_tokens:

# Quantization
bf16: auto
fp16:
tf32: false
## For LoRA
load_in_8bit: false
load_in_4bit: false

# LoRA
peft_use_rslora: true
peft_use_dora: false # better but slower
adapter: lora # lora or qlora
lora_model_dir:
lora_r: 64 # 64 is optimal for most trains on instruct
lora_alpha: 32
lora_dropout: 0.1
lora_target_linear: true
lora_fan_in_fan_out:
lora_target_modules:
#  - embed_tokens
#  - lm_head

#loraplus_lr_ratio: 8 # works to converge faster but is kinda cancer bc makes model unstable
#loraplus_lr_embedding:

# Training hyperparameters
# max_steps:
num_epochs: 2

# Anti Overfit and Stability
weight_decay: 0.01
max_grad_norm: 1.0

## Learning Rate
warmup_ratio: 0.05
learning_rate: 0.00003
lr_scheduler: cosine
#lr_scheduler_kwargs:
#    min_lr: 0.0000024
optimizer: paged_ademamix_8bit # usually adamw_torch or paged_adamw_8bit

## Batch Size
gradient_accumulation_steps: 4      # More effective batch size - stabler train, usually. MBS also speeds it up.
micro_batch_size: 4                 # Batch size per gpu = micro_batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps
eval_batch_size: 1

# Optimizations
pad_to_sequence_len: true
sample_packing: true
eval_sample_packing: false
flash_attention: true
xformers_attention:
gradient_checkpointing: "unsloth"
gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
   use_reentrant: true
local_rank:
deepspeed: /workspace/axolotl/deepspeed_configs/zero3_bf16.json # Only use with multi gpu # _bf16_cpuoffload_all
# fsdp:
#   - full_shard
#   - auto_wrap
# fsdp_config:
#   fsdp_limit_all_gathers: true
#   fsdp_sync_module_states: true
#   fsdp_offload_params: true
#   fsdp_use_orig_params: false
#   fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
#   fsdp_auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
#   fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: LlamaDecoderLayer
#   fsdp_state_dict_type: FULL_STATE_DICT
#   fsdp_sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
# Misc
early_stopping_patience:
debug: