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Kudzu 8B by lodrick-the-lafted

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Kudzu 8B is an open-source language model by lodrick-the-lafted. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.1GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Merged, LLM Explorer Score: 0.14, Arc: 62.5, HellaSwag: 80.3, MMLU: 68.1, GSM8K: 63.1.

  Merged Model Base model:cgato/l3-thespice-8... Base model:edgerunners/meta-ll... Base model:lodrick-the-lafted/... Base model:lodrick-the-lafted/... Base model:lodrick-the-lafted/... Base model:unsloth/llama-3-8b-...   Conversational   Endpoints compatible   Instruct   Llama   Region:us   Safetensors   Sharded   Tensorflow
Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/lodrick-the-lafted/Kudzu-8B 

Kudzu 8B Benchmarks

ARC: 62.46 vs 96.7 (so35)-35.4%
HellaSwag: 80.28 vs 95.3 (gpt4)-15.8%
MMLU: 68.14 vs 88.3 (so35)-22.8%
GSM8K: 63.08 vs 96.4 (so35)-34.6%
LLME Score: 0.14314
nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").
Kudzu 8B (lodrick-the-lafted/Kudzu-8B)
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Kudzu 8B Parameters and Internals

Additional Notes 
Fresh out of the mergekit-evolve kitchen, this is a merge model using wmdp as the scoring method for evolve. Has a mix of ablated models and does not exhibit the 'Ahaha!' interjections seen in Llama-3.
LLM NameKudzu 8B
Repository 🤗https://huggingface.co/lodrick-the-lafted/Kudzu-8B 
Base Model(s)  Olethros 8B   Limon 8B   Rummage 8B   cgato/L3-TheSpice-8b-v0.8.3   Llama 3 8B Instruct   ... Ortho Baukit 10fail 1000total   lodrick-the-lafted/Olethros-8B   lodrick-the-lafted/Limon-8B   lodrick-the-lafted/Rummage-8B   cgato/L3-TheSpice-8b-v0.8.3   unsloth/llama-3-8b-Instruct   Edgerunners/meta-llama-3-8b-instruct-hf-ortho-baukit-10fail-1000total
Merged ModelYes
Model Size8b
Required VRAM16.1 GB
Updated2026-04-25
Maintainerlodrick-the-lafted
Model Typellama
Instruction-BasedYes
Model Files  16.1 GB: 1-of-1
Model ArchitectureLlamaForCausalLM
Licenseapache-2.0
Context Length8192
Model Max Length8192
Transformers Version4.40.0
Tokenizer ClassPreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token<|end_of_text|>
Vocabulary Size128256
Torch Data Typebfloat16

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