Alpaca vs. Pythia
LLM Comparison
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
Further Reading
Pythia
Overview
The most recent (as of May 2023) effort from EleutherAI, Pythia is a set of LLMs trained on The Pile. While it appears to outperform OPT and GPTNeo, its performance against GPT-J is unclear. Versions of Pythia have also been instruct-tuned by the team at Together.
Initial release: 2023-02-13
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Further Reading
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Sapling APIMore Comparisons
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| License | Noncommercial | Apache 2.0 |
| Model Sizes | 7B | 1B, 1.4B, 2.8B, 6.9B, 12B |