[monkmartinez]

interesting comment... what are you doing with base models? Are you a "finetuner"? I have been trying my hand with finetunes on instruct models and the results have been ok, but not awesome. I have a base model downloading now to give that a proper shot.

[superkuh]

I'm not them but I still prefer a text completion style of prompting rather than a baked in pre-prompt structure assuming only a 'chat' style metaphor of interaction.

[benob]

Base models are useful in research to see the effect of instruction tuning