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Alpaca vs. FastChat

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Alpaca

Alpaca

Overview

Alpaca is an instruction-finetuned LLM based off of LLaMA.


The first of many instruct-finetuned versions of LLaMA, Alpaca is an instruction-following model introduced by Stanford researchers. Impressively, with only $600 of compute spend, the researchers demonstrated that on qualitative benchmarks Alpaca performed similarly to OpenAI's text-davinci-003, a significantly larger model.


Initial release: 2023-03-13

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FastChat

FastChat

Overview

FastChat is the open platform for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chatbots developed and maintained by LMSYS.


FastChat is an open-source library for training, serving, and evaluating LLM chat systems from LMSYS. It includes training and evaluation code, a model serving system, a Web GUI, and a finetuning pipeline, and is the de facto system for Vicuna as well as FastChat-T5. FastChat also includes the Chatbot Arena for benchmarking LLMs.


Initial release: 2023-04-28

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Noncommercial Apache 2.0
Model Sizes 7B 3B