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Falcon3-3B-Instruct

Falcon3 family of Open Foundation Models is a set of pretrained and instruct LLMs ranging from 1B to 10B parameters.

Falcon3-3B-Instruct achieves strong results on reasoning, language understanding, instruction following, code and mathematics tasks. Falcon3-3B-Instruct supports 4 languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese) and a context length of up to 32K.

Model Details

• Architecture
  • Transformer-based causal decoder-only architecture
  • 22 decoder blocks
  • Grouped Query Attention (GQA) for faster inference: 12 query heads and 4 key-value heads
  • Wider head dimension: 256
  • High RoPE value to support long context understanding: 1000042
  • Uses SwiGLU and RMSNorm
  • 32K context length
  • 131K vocab size
• Pruned and healed from Falcon3-7B-Base on only 100 Gigatokens of datasets comprising of web, code, STEM, high quality and mutlilingual data using 1024 H100 GPU chips
• Posttrained on 1.2 million samples of STEM, conversational, code, safety and function call data
• Supports EN, FR, ES, PT
• Developed by Technology Innovation Institute
• License: TII Falcon-LLM License 2.0
• Model Release Date: December 2024

Getting started

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from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

model_name = "tiiuae/Falcon3-3B-Instruct"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

prompt = "How many hours in one day?"
messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful friendly assistant Falcon3 from TII, try to follow instructions as much as possible."},
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)
model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    **model_inputs,
    max_new_tokens=1024
)
generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]

response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(response)

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Benchmarks

We report in the following table our internal pipeline benchmarks.

• We use lm-evaluation harness.
• We report raw scores obtained by applying chat template and fewshot_as_multiturn.
• We use same batch-size across all models.

<table border="1" style="width: 100%; text-align: center; border-collapse: collapse;"> <colgroup> <col style="width: 10%;"> <col style="width: 10%;"> <col style="width: 7%;"> <col style="width: 7%;"> <col style="width: 7%;"> <col style="background-color: rgba(80, 15, 213, 0.5); width: 7%;"> </colgroup> <thead> <tr> <th>Category</th> <th>Benchmark</th> <th>Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct</th> <th>Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct</th> <th>Nemotron-Mini-4B-Instruct</th> <th>Falcon3-3B-Instruct</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="3">General</td> <td>MMLU (5-shot)</td> <td>61.2</td> <td><b>65.4</b></td> <td>57.3</td> <td>56.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>MMLU-PRO (5-shot)</td> <td>27.7</td> <td><b>32.6</b></td> <td>26.0</td> <td>29.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td>IFEval</td> <td><b>74.7</b></td> <td>64.1</td> <td>66.3</td> <td>68.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="3">Math</td> <td>GSM8K (5-shot)</td> <td><b>76.8</b></td> <td>56.7</td> <td>29.8</td> <td>74.8</td> </tr> <tr> <td>GSM8K (8-shot, COT)</td> <td><b>78.8</b></td> <td>60.8</td> <td>35.0</td> <td>78.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td>MATH Lvl-5 (4-shot)</td> <td>14.6</td> <td>0.0</td> <td>0.0</td> <td><b>19.9</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="5">Reasoning</td> <td>Arc Challenge (25-shot)</td> <td>50.9</td> <td>55.0</td> <td><b>56.2</b></td> <td>55.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>GPQA (0-shot)</td> <td><b>32.2</b></td> <td>29.2</td> <td>27.0</td> <td>29.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>GPQA (0-shot, COT)</td> <td>11.3</td> <td>11.0</td> <td>12.2</td> <td><b>26.5</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>MUSR (0-shot)</td> <td>35.0</td> <td><b>40.2</b></td> <td>38.7</td> <td>39.0</td> </tr> <tr> <td>BBH (3-shot)</td> <td>41.8</td> <td>44.5</td> <td>39.5</td> <td><b>45.4</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4">CommonSense Understanding</td> <td>PIQA (0-shot)</td> <td>74.6</td> <td>73.8</td> <td>74.6</td> <td><b>75.6</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>SciQ (0-shot)</td> <td>77.2</td> <td>60.7</td> <td>71.0</td> <td><b>95.5</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Winogrande (0-shot)</td> <td>-</td> <td>-</td> <td>-</td> <td><b>65.0</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>OpenbookQA (0-shot)</td> <td>40.8</td> <td>41.2</td> <td><b>43.2</b></td> <td>42.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Instructions following</td> <td>MT-Bench (avg)</td> <td>7.1</td> <td><b>8.0</b></td> <td>6.7</td> <td>7.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Alpaca (WC)</td> <td><b>19.4</b></td> <td>19.4</td> <td>9.6</td> <td>15.5</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tool use</td> <td>BFCL AST (avg)</td> <td><b>85.2</b></td> <td>84.8</td> <td>59.8</td> <td>59.3</td> </tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">Code</td> <td>EvalPlus (0-shot) (avg)</td> <td>55.2</td> <td><b>69.4<b></td> <td>40.0</td> <td>52.9</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Multipl-E (0-shot) (avg)</td> <td>31.6</td> <td>29.2</td> <td>19.6</td> <td><b>32.9</b></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Useful links

• View our release blogpost.
• Feel free to join our discord server if you have any questions or to interact with our researchers and developers.

Technical Report

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Citation

If the Falcon3 family of models were helpful to your work, feel free to give us a cite.

@misc{Falcon3,
    title = {The Falcon 3 Family of Open Models},
    url = {https://huggingface.co/blog/falcon3},
    author = {Falcon-LLM Team},
    month = {December},
    year = {2024}
}