I am happy to release two new language models for the Italian Language!
๐ช Gemma 2 9B Neogenesis ITA anakin87/gemma-2-9b-neogenesis-ita Building on the impressive work by VAGO Solutions, I applied Direct Preference Optimization with a mix of Italian and English data. Using Spectrum, I trained 20% of model layers.
๐ Evaluated on the Open ITA LLM leaderboard (mii-llm/open_ita_llm_leaderboard), this model achieves strong performance. To beat it on this benchmark, you'd need a 27B model ๐
๐ค Gemma 2 2B Neogenesis ITA anakin87/gemma-2-2b-neogenesis-ita This smaller variant is fine-tuned from the original Gemma 2 2B it by Google. Through a combination of Supervised Fine-Tuning and Direct Preference Optimization, I trained 25% of the layers using Spectrum.
๐ Compared to the original model, it shows improved Italian proficiency, good for its small size.