Bronsn/ganda_llama_8b_16

final_model_8b_16

This model is finetuned for English-Luganda bidirectional translation tasks. It's trained using QLoRA (Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation) on the original LLaMA-3.1-8B model.

Model Details

Base Model Information

• Base model: unsloth/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B
• Model family: LLaMA-3.1-8B
• Type: Base
• Original model size: 8B parameters

Training Configuration

• Training method: QLoRA (4-bit quantization)
• LoRA rank (r): 16
• LoRA alpha: 16
• Target modules: q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj
• LoRA dropout: 0
• Learning rate: 2e-5
• Batch size: 2
• Gradient accumulation steps: 4
• Max sequence length: 2048
• Weight decay: 0.01
• Training steps: 100,000
• Warmup steps: 1000
• Save interval: 10,000 steps
• Optimizer: AdamW (8-bit)
• LR scheduler: Cosine
• Mixed precision: bf16
• Gradient checkpointing: Enabled (unsloth)

Dataset Information

• Training data: Parallel English-Luganda corpus
• Data sources:
  • SALT dataset (salt-train-v1.4)
  • Extracted parallel sentences
  • Synthetic code-mixed data
• Bidirectional translation: Trained on both English→Luganda and Luganda→English
• Total training examples: Varies by direction

Usage

This model uses an instruction-based prompt format:

Below is an instruction that describes a task,
paired with an input that provides further context.
Write a response that appropriately completes the request.

### Instruction:
Translate the following text to [target_lang]

### Input:
[input text]

### Response:
[translation]

Training Infrastructure

• Trained using unsloth optimization library
• Hardware: Single A100 GPU
• Quantization: 4-bit training enabled

Limitations

• The model is specialized for English-Luganda translation
• Performance may vary based on domain and complexity of text
• Limited to the context length of 16 tokens

Citation and Contact

If you use this model, please cite:

• Original LLaMA-3.1 model by Meta AI
• QLoRA paper: Dettmers et al. (2023)
• unsloth optimization library