How can someone get into using these models? How does ‘tuning’ work? How might I go about using these models for doing things like say summarizing news articles or video transcriptions? When someone tunes a model for a task, what exactly are they doing and how does this ‘change’ the model?
You can use gradio(online) or download(git will not download, it's too big, do it manually) the weights at https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1/tree/main and then load the model in pytourch and try inference(text generation). But you'll need either a lot of RAM(16GB,32GB+) or VRAM(Card).
How might I go about using these models for doing things like say summarizing news articles or video transcriptions
Again, you might try online or setup a python/bash/powershell script to load the model for you so you can use it. If you can pay I would recommend runpod for the shared GPUs.
When someone tunes a model for a task, what exactly are they doing and how does this ‘change’ the model?
From my view ... not much ... "fine-tuning" means training(tuning) on a specific dataset(fine, as in fine-grained). As I believe(I'm not sure) they just run more epochs on the model with the new data you have provided it until they reach a good loss(the model works), that's why quality data is important.
A newer but much better system actually reduces the model size while reducing the functionality of the system - similar to training a NN for a very specific task (as was typical several years ago), but now it can happen with far less data.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02301.pdf
This paper is quite fantastic, and will likely shape up to be a quite important glue task for LLM models to generate.
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How can someone get into using these models? How does ‘tuning’ work? How might I go about using these models for doing things like say summarizing news articles or video transcriptions? When someone tunes a model for a task, what exactly are they doing and how does this ‘change’ the model?
(I'm not an expert)
You can use gradio(online) or download(git will not download, it's too big, do it manually) the weights at https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1/tree/main and then load the model in pytourch and try inference(text generation). But you'll need either a lot of RAM(16GB,32GB+) or VRAM(Card).
You might try https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui they have a pretty easy setup config. Again, you'll need a lot of RAM and a good CPU for inference on CPU or a GPU.
https://huggingface.co/lmsys/vicuna-13b-delta-v1.1/tree/main
A newer but much better system actually reduces the model size while reducing the functionality of the system - similar to training a NN for a very specific task (as was typical several years ago), but now it can happen with far less data. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02301.pdf This paper is quite fantastic, and will likely shape up to be a quite important glue task for LLM models to generate.