LLaMA, Vicuna, Alpaca — Your Personal ChatGPT? (pt 2/3)
In this series of articles, we look at LLaMA and LLaMA-based LLMs, which aim to provide a strong alternative to ChatGPT and GPT-4 that can run on your local laptop, and even your smartphone!
This article will focus on Alpaca, while part 1 covered LLaMA (the base model), and part 3 will cover Vicuna.
Alpaca: Empowering Instruction-Following Language Models with Retraining
Introduction
The field of machine learning continues to witness exciting developments, particularly in the realm of large language models (LLMs). Stanford University’s Center for Research on Foundation Models recently unveiled an instruction-following LLM called Alpaca, which offers an open-source and cost-effective alternative to closed-source models. Leveraging the availability of Meta AI’s LLaMA model, Alpaca enables researchers and tinkerers to explore instruction-following capabilities while addressing existing limitations. This article explores the significance of Alpaca, its retraining methodology, and its potential impact on the field of natural language processing.
