Model Name: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo
Developer/Creator: Meta
Release Date: September 2024
Version: 3.2
Model Type: Text-to-Text Language Model
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo is a large language model (LLM) optimized for instruction-following tasks, striking a balance between computational efficiency and high-quality performance. It excels in multilingual tasks, offering a lightweight solution without compromising on quality.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo is designed for various natural language processing tasks, including:
The model demonstrates strong multilingual capabilities, with benchmark scores available for:
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo uses an optimized transformer architecture with auto-regressive language modeling. It incorporates:
Overview: Llama 3.2 was pretrained on up to 9 trillion tokens of data from publicly available sources. The training process involved:
Data Source and Size: A new mix of publicly available online data, with up to 9T tokens used in training.
Knowledge Cutoff: December 2023
Diversity and Bias: The model's strong performance across multiple languages suggests a diverse training dataset.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo demonstrates impressive performance across various benchmarks:
Multilingual performance (MMLU benchmark):
Accuracy: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo shows competitive performance, especially considering its smaller size. For example, it achieves 63.4% on the MMLU benchmark, compared to 69.4% for the larger Llama 3.1 8B model.
Speed: The model demonstrates high performance with an output speed of 131.7 tokens per second, which is faster compared to the average.Robustness: Its strong performance across multiple languages and various tasks indicates good generalization capabilities.
While specific ethical guidelines are not detailed in the search results, the usage terms prohibit:
The Llama 3.2 models, including all associated multimodal capabilities, are governed by a specific licensing agreement that restricts commercial use within Europe. According to the Llama 3.2 Acceptable Use Policy, individuals or organizations based in the European Union are not granted rights to utilize these models for commercial purposes. This restriction is crucial for developers and organizations considering the deployment of Llama 3.2 models in their applications within the EU.
For more detailed information on the acceptable use and licensing terms, please refer to the Llama 3.2 Use Policy.
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Yes, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo supports both function calling and structured outputs.
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Turbo was built by Meta.
It is available at the v1/chat/completions endpoint.
