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meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

Model Information

meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct is part of Meta's LLaMA 3.1 collection — a family of multilingual large language models (LLMs) available in 8B, 70B, and 405B sizes. These instruction-tuned, text-only models are optimized for multilingual dialogue tasks and consistently outperform many open-source and commercial chat models on common industry benchmarks.

  • Model Developer: Meta
  • Model Release Date: July 23, 2024
  • Supported Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Thai

Model Architecture

meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct is an auto-regressive language model based on an enhanced transformer architecture.

The instruction-tuned versions leverage:

  • Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)
  • Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)

These techniques align the model with human preferences around helpfulness, relevance, and safety.


Benchmark Scores

Category Benchmark Shots Metric LLaMA 3.1
8B Instruct
General MMLU (CoT) 0 Acc. (avg) 73.0
MMLU Pro (CoT) 5 Acc. (avg) 48.3
Steerability IFEval 80.4
Reasoning GPQA Diamond (CoT) 0 Accuracy 31.8
Code HumanEval 0 Pass@1 72.6
MBPP EvalPlus (base) 0 Pass@1 72.8
Math MATH (CoT) 0 Sympy Score 51.9
Tool Use BFCL v2 0 AST Macro Avg. 65.4
Multilingual MGSM 0 EM (exact match) 68.9

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