HotpotQA-Sentence-Retriever-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

Bactrainus HotpotQA Sentence Selector — Llama 3 8B Instruct

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Artifact identity

• Status: complete merged causal-language-model checkpoint
• Base model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
• Audited Hub revision: 0ba9d0d84d7913f3d614061ebd71dca8690e9f93
• Public artifact date: August 2024
• Role: supporting-sentence selection within supplied paragraphs

The repository's historical “Retriever” name denotes generation of supporting-fact references within selected candidate paragraphs. It is not corpus retrieval.

This is a legacy Llama 3 artifact, separate from the revised manuscript's Llama 3.1 sentence selector.

Model summary

The model receives a multi-hop question and selected paragraphs, then emits the exact title and zero-based sentence index of each predicted supporting fact. Its output is designed to feed a reader through a compact facts interface.

Intended use

• Supporting-fact selection for English HotpotQA-style inputs.
• Sentence-level interface in a paragraph-to-sentence cascade.
• Analysis of exact set prediction and error propagation.

Out-of-scope use

• Searching outside the supplied paragraphs.
• Treating selected sentences as verified evidence without checking them against the input.
• General sentence ranking in unrelated domains.
• Claiming direct reproduction of revised Llama 3.1 values.

Input and output contract

Input must preserve exact paragraph titles, sentence order, and zero-based indices. Output should be parsed into a deduplicated set of (title, sentence_index) pairs.

Every title and index must be validated against the current input instance. Unknown titles, negative indices, out-of-range indices, or malformed pairs should remain explicit errors rather than being silently repaired. The exact historical prompt is not embedded in the public configuration.

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import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

MODEL_ID = "bactrianus/HotpotQA-Sentence-Retriever-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
REVISION = "0ba9d0d84d7913f3d614061ebd71dca8690e9f93"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, revision=REVISION)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    MODEL_ID,
    revision=REVISION,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    device_map="auto",
)
model.eval()

Training data and lineage

The checkpoint derives from Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct and HotpotQA supporting-fact annotations. Its matching canonical training view is sentence-selector-sft, pinned to dataset tag v1.0.0. The view contains all 90,447 training source IDs and remains joinable to every other view through source_id. It is a clean deterministic view, not a claim of byte identity with all historical files.

from datasets import load_dataset

train = load_dataset(
    "bactrianus/bactrainus-hotpotqa",
    "sentence-selector-sft",
    split="train",
    revision="v1.0.0",
)

The revised Llama 3.1 settings in sentence_selector.yaml do not retrospectively define the training history of this legacy weight artifact.

Evaluation boundary

No evaluation artifacts or score claims are included. Use exact HotpotQA supporting-fact EM/F1 with a documented parser and pinned split. See the paper for the system-level analysis.

Limitations

• Performance depends on the paragraph selector's recall.
• Exact set prediction penalizes one missing or extra sentence.
• Generated indices are vulnerable to off-by-one and formatting errors.
• The model assumes HotpotQA-style title and sentence boundaries.
• It was not validated as a general evidence-verification model.
• Historical prompt and environment metadata are incomplete.

License and attribution

The weights remain subject to the Meta Llama 3 Community License and Acceptable Use Policy.

Meta Llama 3 is licensed under the Meta Llama 3 Community License, Copyright Meta Platforms, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Built with Meta Llama 3.

HotpotQA-derived data is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Bactrainus code is Apache-2.0 licensed.

Citation

@article{barati2025bactrainus,
  title   = {Bactrainus: Optimizing Large Language Models for Multi-hop Complex Question Answering Tasks},
  author  = {Barati, Iman and Ghafouri, Arash and Minaei-Bidgoli, Behrouz},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06286},
  year    = {2025},
  doi     = {10.48550/arXiv.2501.06286},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06286}
}