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ai.meta.com2024-09-25officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 924 pts · 328 comments2,460 words
Meta releases Llama 3.2, featuring small and medium-sized vision LLMs (11B and 90B) alongside lightweight text-only models (1B and 3B) designed for edge and mobile devices. The 11B and 90B models serve as drop-in replacements for their corresponding text model equivalents while the 1B and 3B models support a context length of 128K tokens and are enabled on day one for Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware. Both pre-trained and aligned vision models are available for fine-tuning using torchtune and local deployment via torchchat, with weights based on BFloat16 numerics.written, reviewed, cited
- The 11B and 90B vision models require an entirely new model architecture that supports image reasoning.
- Developers can keep all text-only capabilities intact because the adapter training intentionally did not update the language-model parameters.
- The 1B and 3B models are created by using structured pruning in a single shot manner from the Llama 3.1 8B.
llama.meta.com2024-04-18officialHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 2,199 pts · 923 comments42 words
ai.meta.comofficialauthorityabout the Llama 3 family2,751 words
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github.com2024-05-19authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 1,041 pts · 269 comments2,465 words
An educational implementation of Llama 3 performs the model one matrix multiplication at a time using tiktoken for tokenization. The architecture includes 32 transformer layers, 32 attention heads, and a rope_theta of 500000.0, loading weights directly from the official Meta file. Attention weights are bundled together to help parallelize attention head multiplication rather than to reduce computation.written, reviewed, cited
- The implementation does not include a BPE tokenizer, requiring users to download an external library for tokenization.
- The model configuration specifies a norm_eps value of 1e-05 to prevent division by zero during RMS normalization.
- Key weight matrices are shared across four attention heads to reduce the total number of computations required.
github.com2024-05-03authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 547 pts · 139 comments233 words
Secret-llama is an entirely-in-browser LLM chatbot powered by the webllm inference engine that runs fully private without needing a server. It supports models like Llama 3 and Mistral, ranging in size from 600MB to 4.3GB, requiring WebGPU support. Users can try it directly online, while developers compile the React code using yarn build-and-preview.written, reviewed, cited
github.com2024-11-21authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 579 pts · 99 comments5,768 words
The project trained a Sparse Autoencoder on 6.5 Billion activations from Llama 3.2-3B layer 23 over 10 epochs. Data capture processed 25 million sentences totaling 4TB of raw activation data compressed to 3.2TB.generated, cited
github.com2024-05-26authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 221 pts · 62 comments546 words
LlamaFS is a self-organizing file manager that automatically renames and organizes files based on content and conventions. It requires Python 3.10 or higher and runs in batch or watch modes, processing most operations in <500ms. The system uses Llama 3 via Groq or Ollama, serving the application locally on port 8000.written, reviewed, cited
github.com2024-04-28authorityHN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 192 pts · 64 comments38 words
aksh-garg.medium.com2024-05-28HN front pageabout the Llama 3 familyHN 459 pts · 77 comments
blog.lytix.co2024-06-14HN front pageHN 245 pts · 183 comments1,403 words
