Shining Valiant 2 is a chat model built on Llama 3.2 3b, finetuned on our data for friendship, insight, knowledge and enthusiasm.

Finetuned on meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct for best available general performance
Trained on a variety of high quality data; focused on science, engineering, technical knowledge, and structured reasoning
Also available for Llama 3.1 70b and Llama 3.1 8b!

Version

This is the 2024-09-27 release of Shining Valiant 2 for Llama 3.2 3b.

We've improved and open-sourced our new baseline science-instruct dataset. This release features improvements in physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science.

Future upgrades will continue to expand Shining Valiant's technical knowledge base.

Help us and recommend Shining Valiant 2 to your friends!

Prompting Guide

Shining Valiant 2 uses the Llama 3.2 Instruct prompt format. The example script below can be used as a starting point for general chat:

import transformers
import torch

model_id = "ValiantLabs/Llama3.2-3B-ShiningValiant2"

pipeline = transformers.pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model=model_id,
    model_kwargs={"torch_dtype": torch.bfloat16},
    device_map="auto",
)

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are an AI assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Describe the use of chiral auxiliaries in organic synthesis."}
]

outputs = pipeline(
    messages,
    max_new_tokens=2048,
)

print(outputs[0]["generated_text"][-1])

The Model

Shining Valiant 2 is built on top of Llama 3.2 3b Instruct.

The current version of Shining Valiant 2 is trained on technical knowledge using sequelbox/Celestia, complex reasoning using sequelbox/Spurline, and general chat capability using sequelbox/Supernova.

We're super excited that Shining Valiant's dataset has been fully open-sourced! She's friendly, enthusiastic, insightful, knowledgeable, and loves to learn! Magical.