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---
license: apache-2.0
---

Sheared-LLaMA-1.3B is a model pruned and further pre-trained from [meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf). We dynamically load data from different domains in the [RedPajama dataset](https://github.com/togethercomputer/RedPajama-Data) to prune and contune pre-train the model. We use 0.4B tokens for pruning and 50B tokens for continued pre-training the pruned model. This model can be loaded with HuggingFace via

```
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("princeton-nlp/Sheared-LLaMA-1.3B")
```

**Paper**: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06694.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06694.pdf)
**Code**: https://github.com/princeton-nlp/LLM-Shearing
**Models**: [Sheared-LLaMA-1.3B](https://huggingface.co/princeton-nlp/Sheared-LLaMA-1.3B), [Sheared-LLaMA-2.7B](https://huggingface.co/princeton-nlp/Sheared-LLaMA-2.7B)

---


### Downstream Tasks

We evaluate on an extensive set of downstream tasks including reasoning, reading comprehension, language modeling and knowledge intensive tasks. Our Sheared-LLaMA models outperform existing large language models. 

| Model | # Pre-training Tokens | Average Performance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| LLaMA2-7B | 2T | 64.6 |

**1.3B**

| OPT-1.3B | 300B | 48.2 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pythia-1.4B | 300B | 48.9 |
| Sheared-LLaMA-1.3B | 50B | 51.0 |

**3B**

| OPT-2.7B | 300B | 51.4 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pythia-2.8B | 300B | 52.5 |
| INCITE-Base-3B | 800B | 54.7 |
| Open-LLaMA-3B-v1 | 1T | 55.1 |
| Open-LLaMA-3B-v2 | 1T | 55.7 |
| Sheared-LLaMA-2.7B | 50B | 56.7 |

### Bibtex
```
@article{xia2023sheared,
   title={Sheared LLaMA: Accelerating Language Model Pre-training via Structured Pruning},
   author={Xia, Mengzhou and Gao, Tianyu, and Zeng Zhiyuan, and Chen Danqi},
   year={2023}
}
```