Note:

This version is the stable release. The issues that were present in versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 all have been rectified. Thank you for your patience while R&D was conducted. Enjoy!

This model have been tested on very long context length. Model produced slight repetition, but it was very minor. I recommend testing the model to your usecase and limiting the context length. Here's my conversation: https://migel.substack.com/p/testing-tess-m-v13

As can be seen, "USER:" and "SYSTEM: Answer the question thoughtfully and intelligently. Always answer without hesitation." was presented by the model in the latter part of the conversation.

Learnings:

Here's my learnings going from Tess-v1.0 to Tess-v1.3: https://migel.substack.com/p/learnings-from-training-tess

Tess

Tess, short for Tesoro (Treasure in Italian), is a general purpose Large Language Model series. Tess-M-v1.3 was trained on the Yi-34B-200K base.

Prompt Format:

SYSTEM: <ANY SYSTEM CONTEXT>
USER: 
ASSISTANT: