llama3.1-8b-instruct-lora

Greek Dialect LoRA — Llama-3.1 8B Instruct Adapter

LoRA adapter that transfers the dialect-focused training recipe to Meta’s Llama-3.1 8B Instruct base. Built by the CLLT Lab (University of Crete) to offer a fully open-weight alternative to the Meta Llama 3 release while keeping identical data processing and hyperparameters.

Project website: https://stergioscha.github.io/CLLT/

Model Details

• Developer: CLLT Lab, University of Crete
• Base model: meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
• Adapter: LoRA (r=16, α=32, dropout=0.1 on q/k/v/o/gate/up/down projections) via PEFT
• Languages: Greek dialects (Pontic, Cretan, Northern Greek, Cypriot)
• Training data: 23k+ natural prompts derived from GRDD / GRDD+ with Standard Greek removed
• Purpose: Research-only release aimed at cultural preservation and dialect-aware NLP experimentation

Sources

• GitHub: https://github.com/StergiosCha/krikri_dialectal
• Dataset: https://github.com/StergiosCha/Greek_dialect_corpus
• Website: https://stergioscha.github.io/CLLT/

Intended Use

Suitable for

• Prompting Llama-3.1 8B to reply in a chosen dialect via natural Greek instructions
• Prototyping tools that surface dialectal variants in educational or cultural applications
• Comparing adapter behaviour across the three released backbones (Krikri, Llama-3, Llama-3.1)

Not suitable for

• Production-facing deployments without careful evaluation
• Safety-critical, legal, or medical settings
• Translation or dialect identification tasks (the adapter only generates text)
• Standard Modern Greek output (training data intentionally omits it)

Quickstart

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
from peft import PeftModel

base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "Stergios/llama3.1-8b-instruct-lora")

prompt = "Γράψε στην κυπριακή διάλεκτο: Πώς πάει η μέρα σου;"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=150, temperature=0.75)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Training Summary

• Preprocessing: same natural-prompt conversion pipeline as other adapters, 95/5 train/val split, 512-token truncation
• Hyperparameters: epochs=3, per-device batch size=2, grad accumulation=8, lr=3e-4, warmup=100, LoRA config identical across models
• Precision: bfloat16, device_map="auto" for multi-GPU utilisation
• Artifacts: adapter_model.safetensors (~170 MB), tokenizer + chat template included for convenience

Evaluation & Monitoring

• Automatic validation loss tracking; best checkpoint saved automatically
• Manual inspection by native speakers recommended for dialect fidelity, register, and orthography

Risks & Limitations

• Dialect knowledge limited to what is present in GRDD; lesser-documented varieties may be under-represented
• Users should specify the dialect clearly—generic prompts may fall back to Standard Greek
• The adapter inherits biases from both the base model and GRDD (topics, register, gender representation, etc.)

Acknowledgments

• AWS compute courtesy of GRNET
• Funding by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility
• Meta for providing the Llama-3.1 base weights

Contact

Please open an issue in the GitHub repository or contact the CLLT Lab (University of Crete) for questions and collaboration.