Model Overview

Description:

The Falcon3-7B-Instruct is an open foundation model designed for state-of-the-art performance in reasoning, language understanding, instruction following, code generation, and mathematics. It supports long-context tasks with a token limit of up to 32K and multilingual capabilities in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
This model is for research and development purposes only.

Third-Party Community Consideration

This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party’s requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA TII Model Card.

License/Terms of Use

GOVERNING TERMS: This trial service is governed by the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service. Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Community Model License. Additional Information: Falcon 3 TII Falcon License. The NVIDIA-optimized Falcon3-7B-Instruct is built using artificial intelligence technology from the Technology Innovation Institute.

References:

• Falcon3-7B-Instruct Model Card
• TII Website
• Falcon 3 Family Release Blog

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformer

Network Architecture: Transformer Decoder Only Architecture

Model Details:

• Transformer-based causal decoder-only design.
  
• Composed of 28 decoder blocks, leveraging Grouped Query Attention (GQA) for faster inference with 12 query heads and 4 key-value heads.
  
• Wider head dimension of 256 for enhanced performance.
  
• High RoPE (Rotary Positional Embedding) value of 1000042, enabling extended context understanding up to 32,000 tokens.
  
• Incorporates SwiGLU activation and RMSNorm for improved training stability and efficiency.
  

Input:

Input Type(s): Text

Input Format(s): String

Input Parameters: (1D)

Other Properties Related to Input: Supports multilingual input (EN, FR, ES, PT) and Context length up to 32,000 tokens.

Output:

Output Type(s): Text

Output Format: String

Output Parameters: (1D)

Other Properties Related to Output: Generates outputs in supported languages with capabilities across reasoning, code, and instructional tasks.

Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s): Not specified; supports standard machine learning pipelines such as PyTorch and Hugging Face

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Ampere
  
• NVIDIA Hopper
  

[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s): Linux

Model Version(s):

• Falcon3-7B-Instruct v1.0
  
• Initial version released in December 2024

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:

Training Dataset:

Link: Not publicly available

Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid (Automated, Human)

Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid (Automated, Human)

Properties:

• Pretrained on 14 teratokens of web, code, STEM, multilingual, and high-quality datasets
  
• Post-trained on 1.2 million samples of STEM, conversations, code, safety, and function call data
  

Testing Dataset:

Link: Not publicly available

Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid (Automated, Human)

Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid (Automated, Human)

Properties: NA

Evaluation Dataset:

Link: Not publicly available

Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid (Automated, Human)

Labeling Method by dataset: Unknown

Properties: Benchmark scores for various models, including Falcon3-7B-Instruct, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, and Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Inference:

Engine: TensorRT-LLM

Test Hardware: NVIDIA Ampere

Ethical Considerations:

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