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FLAN-T5 vs. Koala

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FLAN-T5

FLAN-T5

Overview

FLAN-T5 is a finetuned version of Google's popular T5 model with instruct-finetuning. As stated in the model repository's introduction, compared to T5, FLAN-T5 is "just better at everything." With its permissive license, FLAN-T5 has become a popular option for a starting instruct model.



Initial release: 2022-12-06

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Koala

Koala

Overview

Released alongside Vicuna, Koala is one of many descendants of the Meta LLaMA model trained on dialogue data collected from the web. On the developers' benchmarks, Koala outperforms its sibling Alpaca, though its adoption has been significantly less than that of its other sibling, Vicuna. Due to its use of LLaMA, only research use is permitted.



Initial release: 2023-04-03

Further Reading

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FLAN-T5

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Products & Features
Instruct Models
Coding Capability
Customization
Finetuning
Open Source
License Apache 2.0 Noncommercial
Model Sizes 3B, 11B 7B, 13B

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Other Koala Comparisons

Koala vs. Alpaca Koala vs. Cerebras-GPT Koala vs. Dolly Koala vs. Falcon Koala vs. FastChat Koala vs. FLAN-T5 Koala vs. FLAN-UL2 Koala vs. Gemma Koala vs. Gemma 2 Koala vs. GPT-J Koala vs. GPT4All Koala vs. GPTNeo Koala vs. Grok Koala vs. Guanaco Koala vs. LLaMA Koala vs. Llama 2 Koala vs. Llama 3 Koala vs. Mistral Koala vs. MPT Koala vs. OpenAssistant Koala vs. OpenLLaMA Koala vs. OPT Koala vs. Orca Koala vs. Phi Koala vs. Pythia Koala vs. RedPajama-INCITE Koala vs. StableLM Koala vs. StableVicuna Koala vs. Vicuna Koala vs. WizardLM

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