Basic Information

Model Name: Snowflake Arctic Instruct

Developer/Creator: Snowflake AI Research Team

Release Date: April 24, 2024

Version: Not specified

Model Type: Large Language Model (LLM)

Description

Overview

Snowflake Arctic Instruct is an efficient, intelligent, and open-source language model developed by the Snowflake AI Research Team. It combines a dense transformer model with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, resulting in a powerful and flexible foundation for building AI-powered applications.

Key Features

• Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture
• 480 billion total parameters, 17 billion active parameters
• Optimized for inference efficiency
• Instruction-tuned for improved performance on enterprise tasks
• Apache-2.0 license for free use in research, prototypes, and products

Intended Use

Snowflake Arctic Instruct is designed for enterprise-level AI applications, excelling at tasks such as:

• SQL generation
• Code generation and understanding
• Complex instruction following
• Dialogue and conversational AI
• Summarization
• General language understanding and generation

Language Support

The model supports text input and output, including code generation.

Technical Details

Architecture

Snowflake Arctic Instruct features a unique Dense-MoE Hybrid transformer architecture:

• 10 billion parameter dense transformer model
• Residual 128x3.66 billion parameter MoE Multilayer Perceptron (MLP)
• Top-2 gating technique for selecting active parameters
• 35 transformer layers

Training Data

The training process for Arctic was split into three distinct stages, totaling approximately 3.5 trillion tokens:

1. Phase 1: 1 trillion tokens
2. Phase 2: 1.5 trillion tokens
3. Phase 3: 1 trillion tokens

This multi-stage approach allowed different competencies to be wired logically, optimizing the model's performance on enterprise-focused tasks.

Knowledge Cutoff

The knowledge cutoff date is up to early 2024.

Performance Metrics

Snowflake Arctic Instruct demonstrates strong performance across various benchmarks:

• Excels at enterprise-specific tasks
• Outperforms DBRX, Mixtral 8x7B, and Llama 2 70B on average across enterprise benchmarks
• Competitive performance on general commonsense reasoning benchmarks
• Achieves a score of 7.95 on MTBench, with a turn-1 score of 8.31
• Performs competitively on the Helpful, Honest, & Harmless (HHH) alignment dataset

Usage

Code Samples

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Ethical Guidelines

While specific ethical guidelines are not mentioned in the search results, the model is released under an Apache-2.0 license, allowing free use in research, prototypes, and products.

Licensing

License Type: Apache-2.0The Apache-2.0 license allows users to freely use, modify, and distribute the model in both commercial and non-commercial applications.