We introduce Mistral 7B v0.1, a 7-billion-parameter language model engineered for superior performance and efficiency. Mistral 7B outperforms Llama 2 13B across all evaluated benchmarks, and Llama 1 34B in reasoning, mathematics, and code generation. Our model leverages grouped-query attention (GQA) for faster inference, coupled with sliding window attention (SWA) to effectively handle sequences of arbitrary length with a reduced inference cost. We also provide a model fine-tuned to follow instructions, Mistral 7B -- Instruct, that surpasses the Llama 2 13B -- Chat model both on human and automated benchmarks. Our models are released under the Apache 2.0 license.
@article{arxiv.2310.06825,
title = {Mistral 7B},
author = {Albert Q. Jiang and Alexandre Sablayrolles and Arthur Mensch and Chris Bamford and Devendra Singh Chaplot and Diego de las Casas and Florian Bressand and Gianna Lengyel and Guillaume Lample and Lucile Saulnier and Lélio Renard Lavaud and Marie-Anne Lachaux and Pierre Stock and Teven Le Scao and Thibaut Lavril and Thomas Wang and Timothée Lacroix and William El Sayed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.06825},
year = {2023}
}
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Models and code are available at https://mistral.ai/news/announcing-mistral-7b/