---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- Drenel
- Hippo
- LLM
- MultiLingual
- Drenel/Hippo-6B
base_model:
- Drenel/Hippo-6B
- Drenel/Hippo-6B
library_name: transformers
---

## Model Details

Hippo-6B is a cutting-edge, transformer-based language model designed to provide state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. With 6.2 billion parameters, Hippo-6B strikes a balance between computational efficiency and high performance, making it a versatile model for various applications.

**Context Length:** Supports up to 4K context length

**Publisher:** Drenel

## Key Features and Technologies

### 1. Efficient Attention Mechanism

- **Flash Attention:** Hippo-6B leverages flash attention techniques, including flash attention functions (`flash_attn_func` and `flash_attn_varlen_func`), to efficiently compute attention scores. This reduces the computational overhead and memory usage, enabling the model to handle longer context lengths without performance degradation.
- **Support for Window Size:** The model includes conditional support for attention windows, allowing for flexible and scalable attention mechanisms based on the available hardware and task requirements.

### 2. Rotary Embeddings

- **Rotary Position Embeddings:** Hippo-6B employs rotary position embeddings (`RotaryEmbedding`) to encode positional information in a more continuous and differentiable manner, enhancing the model's ability to capture long-range dependencies.
- **Scaled Rotary Embeddings:** Variations such as `SuScaledRotaryEmbedding` and `YarnScaledRotaryEmbedding` adapt the rotary embeddings to different scaling factors, providing finer control over the embedding space.

### 3. RMS Norm

- **RMS Normalization:** The model utilizes Root Mean Square (RMS) normalization layers (`RMSNorm`) to stabilize training and improve convergence. RMS normalization helps in maintaining consistent gradient flow across layers, leading to more efficient training dynamics.

### 4. Modular and Scalable Design

- **Modular Attention Classes:** Hippo-6B features a modular design with different attention classes (`Attention`, `FlashAttention2`, `SdpaAttention`). This modularity allows easy customization and scalability of the attention mechanisms based on specific use cases.
- **MLP Layers:** The model incorporates Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) layers with gating mechanisms to enhance the model's expressive power. The `MLP` class includes techniques such as expert gating and intermediate projections for more sophisticated representations.

### 5. Caching and Memory Efficiency

- **Dynamic Caching:** The model supports dynamic caching strategies (`Cache`, `DynamicCache`) to optimize memory usage during inference, allowing for faster and more efficient processing of long sequences.

### 6. Loss Functions

- **Cross-Entropy Loss:** The model uses Cross-Entropy Loss for classification tasks, ensuring accurate and efficient learning of categorical distributions.
- **Mean Squared Error (MSE) Loss:** For regression tasks, MSE Loss is employed to minimize the difference between predicted and actual values, providing robust performance in continuous prediction tasks.

## Usage

Hippo-6B can be used for a variety of NLP tasks, including but not limited to:

- Text Generation
- Language Translation
- Sentiment Analysis
- Named Entity Recognition
- Text Classification

### Chat Format

You can provide the prompt as a question with a generic template as follow:
```markdown
<|user|>\nQuestion<|end|>\n<|assistant|>
```

## Example

Here is a quick example of how to use Hippo-6B for text generation:

```python
# Libraries installation
# pip install -q transformers accelerate flash-attn

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

torch.random.manual_seed(0)
modelName = "Drenel/Hippo-6B"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(modelName, device_map="cuda",torch_dtype="auto",trust_remote_code=True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(modelName)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?  <|end|><|assistant|>"},
]

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)
generation_args = {"max_new_tokens": 50, "return_full_text": False, "temperature": 0.7, "do_sample": False, "top_k": 50, "top_p": 0.95}
output = pipe(messages, **generation_args)
print(output[0]['generated_text'])
```


## License

Hippo-6B is distributed under the Apache-2.0.