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Nous: Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO

nousresearch/nous-hermes-2-mistral-7b-dpo

Model weights

This is the flagship 7B Hermes model, a Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) of Teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B. It shows improvement across the board on all benchmarks tested - AGIEval, BigBench Reasoning, GPT4All, and TruthfulQA.

The model prior to DPO was trained on 1,000,000 instructions/chats of GPT-4 quality or better, primarily synthetic data as well as other high quality datasets.

Modalities

Context

8K

Released

Feb 21, 2024

Knowledge Cutoff

Sep 2023

ActivityFAQ

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

About Nous: Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO

OpenRouter makes Nous: Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO by Nous Research available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID nousresearch/nous-hermes-2-mistral-7b-dpo.

Nous: Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO accepts text and returns text. It has a 8,192-token context window.

It was released on February 21, 2024; its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2023.

More models from Nous Research

  • Hermes 4 70B
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  • Hermes 3 70B Instruct

Frequently asked questions

This is the flagship 7B Hermes model, a Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) of Teknium/OpenHermes-2.5-Mistral-7B. It shows improvement across the board on all benchmarks tested - AGIEval, BigBench Reasoning, GPT4All, and TruthfulQA. The model prior to DPO was trained on 1,000,000 instructions/chats of GPT-4 quality or better, primarily synthetic data as well as other high quality datasets.

Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO has a 8,192 token context window.

Hermes 4 70B, Hermes 4 405B, Hermes 3 70B Instruct and 1 more are other text models from Nous Research.

Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO was released on February 21, 2024. Its knowledge cutoff is September 30, 2023.