What is Falcon LLM?
Falcon is an open-source model released by the Technology Innovation Institute of UAE. The Falcon family comprises model of 4 size currently – 1.8B, 7B, 40B and 180B. Unlike other popular LLMS the falcon family of models are freely available under open-source license for further development purpose. The dataset used for training, the design principles used while designing the model and the training process is documented in detail.
Falcon LLM: Comprehensive Guide
Falcon LLM is a large language model that is engineered to comprehend and generate human like text, showcasing remarkable improvements in natural language and generation capabilities. This article covers the fundamentals of Falcon LLM and demonstrates how can we perform text generation using Falcon LLM.
Table of Content
- What is Falcon LLM?
- Key Features of Falcon LLM
- Design Philosophy of Falcon LLM
- Key Model components of Falcon LLM
- Limitation
- Text Generation using Falcon 7B
Falcon LLM aims to set new benchmarks in AI’s ability to interact, reason, and assist in a variety of complex tasks, promising transformative impacts across industries and research domains.
Large Language Model (LLM) is a very huge model (in terms of parameter) that are generally based on the transformer architecture (a special type of neural network capable of parallel processing through self-attention mechanism) that are trained on massive amounts of text data which help them to understand and generate text like humans do. Some examples of the famous LLM are GPT-3, Google BART, PaLM. Though the LLM models like GPT-3, Google BART, and PaLM are available to the public for inference, how they have been trained is not documented in detail. Traditionally the open-source LLM model has always lagged behind these private/commercial LLM models in terms of performance and size. The lack of detailed documentation about the training process of successful large-scale models limits the research and progress of open-source models.
Let us get an understanding of the key components of the Falcon Model.