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Based on internal & independent tests, fine-tuning on Stack Overflow data results in substantial model performance improvements.
Figure 1. Percent of “Perfect” answers (internal testing)
Based on a proprietary eval set of 1000 Q&A with ground truth answers created from Stack Exchange and Prosus AI Assistant technical Q&A (with highest user rating).
- 14.13%
- Instruction fine tuned
- MPT 30B
- 31.52%
- Stack Overflow trained fine tuned
- MPT 30B
- 37.38%
- Code fine tuned
- Code Llama-2 34B Instruction fine tuned
- 55.30%
- Stack Overflow fine tuned
- Code Llama-2 34B