L3.1-Siithamo-v0.2-8B

Second (third) time's the charm. After fighting with Formax trying to increase it's max context to something that isn't 4k, spat out this merge as a result. Still maintains a lot of v0.1's properties; creativity, literacy, and chattiness. Knowing everything I've learned making this, time to dive headfirst into making an L3.1 space whale.

I stg LLMs are testing me.

Quants

OG Q8 GGUF by me.

GGUFs by mradermacher

Details & Recommended Settings

Outputs a lot, pretty fucking chatty like Stheno. Pulls some chaotic creativity from Niitama but its mellowed out with Tamamo. Flowery dramatic writing at times. Starts repeating at basic settings around 8k but DRY eliminates it and can handle 32k context. Very good instructions following.

Rec. Settings:

Template: L3
Temperature: 1.4
Min P: 0.1
Repeat Penalty: 1.05
Repeat Penalty Tokens: 256
Dyn Temp: 0.9-1.05 at 0.1
Smooth Sampl: 0.18

Models Merged & Merge Theory

The following models were included in the merge:

• Edgerunners/Lyraea-large-llama-3.1
• Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.3-32K
• Sao10K/L3.1-8B-Niitama-v1.1
• Sao10K/L3-8B-Tamamo-v1
• ArliAI/ArliAI-Llama-3-8B-Formax-v1.0
• gradientai/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k

Compared to v0.1, the siithamol3.1 part stayed the same. To 'increase' the context of Formax, just chopped of the ladder half and replaced it with a ~1M context model and that seemed to do the trick (after doing a bunch of other shit, this was the simplest and easiest route). Then, changed from dare_linear to breadcrumbs for the final merge, gave a better output without the hassle. Again, TIES anything didn't work nearly as well.

Config

slices:
- sources:
  - layer_range: [0, 16]
    model: ArliAI/ArliAI-Llama-3-8B-Formax-v1.0
- sources:
  - layer_range: [16, 32]
    model: gradientai/Llama-3-8B-Instruct-Gradient-1048k
parameters:
  int8_mask: true
merge_method: passthrough
dtype: float32
out_dtype: bfloat16
name: formax.ext
---
models:
    - model: Sao10K/L3.1-8B-Niitama-v1.1
    - model: Sao10K/L3-8B-Stheno-v3.3-32K
    - model: Sao10K/L3-8B-Tamamo-v1
base_model: Edgerunners/Lyraea-large-llama-3.1
parameters:
  normalize: false
  int8_mask: true
merge_method: model_stock
dtype: float32
out_dtype: bfloat16
name: siithamol3.1
---
models: 
  - model: siitamol3.1
    parameters:
      weight: [0.5, 0.8, 0.9, 1]
      density: 0.9
      gamma: 0.01
  - model: formax.ext
    parameters:
      weight: [0.5, 0.2, 0.1, 0]
      density: 0.9
      gamma: 0.01
base_model: siitamol3.1
parameters:
  normalize: false
  int8_mask: true
merge_method: breadcrumbs
dtype: float32
out_dtype: bfloat16