Research Papers
Mixtral of Experts
We introduce Mixtral 8x7B, a Sparse Mixture of Experts (SMoE) language model.
Mixtral has the same architecture as Mistral 7B, with the difference that each
layer is composed of 8 feedforward blocks (i.e. experts). For every token, at
each layer, a router network selects two experts to process the current state
and combine their outputs. Even though each token only sees two experts, the
selected experts can be different at each timestep. As a result, each token has
access to 47B parameters, but only uses 13B active parameters during inference.
Mixtral was trained with a context size of 32k tokens and it outperforms or
matches Llama 2 70B and GPT-3.5 across all evaluated benchmarks. In particular,
Mixtral vastly outperforms Llama 2 70B on mathematics, code generation, and
multilingual benchmarks. We also provide a model fine-tuned to follow
instructions, Mixtral 8x7B - Instruct, that surpasses GPT-3.5 Turbo,
Claude-2.1, Gemini Pro, and Llama 2 70B - chat model on human benchmarks. Both
the base and instruct models are released under the Apache 2.0 license.
Mistral 7B
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.