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LLaMA vs. Vicuna

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LLaMA

Overview

The model that launched a frenzy in open-source instruct-finetuned models, LLaMA is Meta AI's more parameter-efficient, open-source alternative to large commercial LLMs. Despite being smaller than many commercial models, LLaMA outperformed the gold standard GPT-3 on many benchmarks, with the primary drawback being that its access remains gated to researchers with restrictions on commercial use.

Initial release: 2023-02-24

Reference

https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/

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Vicuna

Overview

Released alongside Koala, Vicuna is one of many descendants of the Meta LLaMA model trained on dialogue data collected from the ShareGPT website. According to the authors, Vicuna achieves more than 90% of ChatGPT's quality in user preference tests, while vastly outperforming Alpaca. As of May 2023, Vicuna seems to be the heir apparent of the instruct-finetuned LLaMA model family, though it is also restricted from commercial use.

Initial release: 2023-03-30

Reference

https://vicuna.lmsys.org/

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Customization
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Open Source
License Noncommercial Noncommercial
Model Sizes 7B, 13B, 33B, 65B 13B

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Other Vicuna Comparisons

Vicuna vs. Alpaca Vicuna vs. BLOOM Vicuna vs. Cerebras-GPT Vicuna vs. Dolly Vicuna vs. FLAN-T5 Vicuna vs. FLAN-UL2 Vicuna vs. GPT-J Vicuna vs. GPT4All Vicuna vs. GPTNeo Vicuna vs. Koala Vicuna vs. LLaMA Vicuna vs. MPT-7B Vicuna vs. OpenAssistant Vicuna vs. OpenLLaMA Vicuna vs. OPT Vicuna vs. Pythia Vicuna vs. RedPajama-INCITE Vicuna vs. StableLM Vicuna vs. StableVicuna

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