---
base_model:
- Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_R1
- Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_NMT
- Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.1
library_name: transformers
tags:
- mergekit
- merge
license: llama3.3
---
# about

The Teaz series is my third attempt at making merges, after the Kostume and Kermes series.

This time, the goal was to make a smart model with a low perplexity, in accordance to the principles of the Kermes series, but with a merge of 3 merged models like on the kostume series.

Huihui's abliterated models were used:
- Llama 3.3 70b as the pivot of the first/main model.
- Nemotron 3.1 70b and Deepseek R1 Distill 70b as the pillars.
- and Tulu 3 70b as the backers of the 2nd and 3rd models.

Bingo again. I hit 3.45 ppl512 wikieng, 62+ or ARC-C, and 82+ on ARC-E. Absolute top of the class for L3.x 70b, like Kermes is for L3 3.2 3b.

No cheating, no contaminating, just the wonderful MergeKit model-stock merge technique leveraged to a new level (compared to what I already saw being done, at least).

Next projects will involve that model as the "smarts pillar" of further merges, aimed at any use case.

---
# credits

Kudos go to the model authors, and to the Arcee / MergeKit folks, as well as to HF hosting the MergeKit App.
Also a big-up to SteelSkull, observing him cooking Nevoria decided me to try to make some merges by myself.

---
# historic

First : On the Kostume series started on the 11/02/0205 I tried to make a triple stock merge of 3 intermediary stock merges of a dozen of model or so.
This, to see if I could pile up their abilities.

- Not bad, but nothing special about it, it's a bit hard for me to judge at 3b.

Second : On the Kermes series started the day after, I defined a simpler approach:

- Perplexity is the main constraint. Usual L3.2 3b finetunes are around 10.5-11 ppl512wikieng, Hermes is around 9.5.
- I also measure in French and Serbian to observe the variances.
  
- Arc Challenge and Easy are the second constraint to judge its basic logics.
- Usual L3.2 3b finetunes hit 40 and 60-65 respectively, Hermes3 hits 47+ and 70+.

- Lack of censorship. I always keep in mind to pick models compatible with that AMAP.
- This, may it be through the picked models' abliteration or the datasets they use.

- And of course, the test, both In Kobold/Croco.CPP (spamming very offensive requests), and in ST (a 10k prompt with a big lorebook).

Kermes series are basically stock merges on the top of anothers.
- The goal was to maintain as much the qualities of the models used, so I stay on 1+2 models for the first merge, and 1+2 for the second as well.

And bingo. Perplexity goes down still, ARC remain stable, it's quite unhinged still, and.. quite coherent, event at 10k+ context.

---
# quantizations

GGUF static quantizations (Thanks Mradermacher!) :

https://huggingface.co./mradermacher/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_V1-GGUF

GGUF iMatrix quantizations (Thanks Mradermacher!) :

https://huggingface.co./mradermacher/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_V1-i1-GGUF

---
# merge
# merge

This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using [mergekit](https://github.com/cg123/mergekit).

## Merge Details
### Merge Method

This model was merged using the [Model Stock](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19522) merge method using [Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.1](https://huggingface.co./Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.1) as a base.

### Models Merged

The following models were included in the merge:
* [Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_R1](https://huggingface.co./Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_R1)
* [Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_NMT](https://huggingface.co./Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_NMT)

### Configuration

The following YAML configuration was used to produce this model:

```yaml
merge_method: model_stock
models:
  - model: Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_NMT
    parameters:
      weight: 1.0
  - model: Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.2_R1
    parameters:
      weight: 1.0
base_model: Nexesenex/Llama_3.x_70b_Smarteaz_0.1
dtype: bfloat16
normalize: true

```