Model Description

Redmond-Hermes-Coder 15B is a state-of-the-art language model fine-tuned on over 300,000 instructions. This model was fine-tuned by Nous Research, with Teknium and Karan4D leading the fine tuning process and dataset curation, Redmond AI sponsoring the compute, and several other contributors.

This model was trained with a WizardCoder base, which itself uses a StarCoder base model.

The model is truly great at code, but, it does come with a tradeoff though. While far better at code than the original Nous-Hermes built on Llama, it is worse than WizardCoder at pure code benchmarks, like HumanEval.

It comes in at 39% on HumanEval, with WizardCoder at 57%. This is a preliminary experiment, and we are exploring improvements now.

However, it does seem better at non-code than WizardCoder on a variety of things, including writing tasks.

Model Training

The model was trained almost entirely on synthetic GPT-4 outputs. This includes data from diverse sources such as GPTeacher, the general, roleplay v1&2, code instruct datasets, Nous Instruct & PDACTL (unpublished), CodeAlpaca, Evol_Instruct Uncensored, GPT4-LLM, and Unnatural Instructions.

Additional data inputs came from Camel-AI's Biology/Physics/Chemistry and Math Datasets, Airoboros' (v1) GPT-4 Dataset, and more from CodeAlpaca. The total volume of data encompassed over 300,000 instructions.