---
license: apache-2.0
---

Zero-shot results when using the [Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct) as the teacher model, and the [Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct) as the initialized model

| Task                | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | Llama3.1-Mamba-8B-distill | Llama3.1-Mamba-8B-dpo | Llama3.1-Mamba2-8B-distill | Llama3.1-Mamba2-8B-dpo |
|---------------------|-----------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|
| arc_challenge       | 0.552                 | 0.5384                   | 0.5657                | 0.5265                    | 0.5973                |
| arc_easy            | 0.8178                | 0.8224                   | 0.8401                | 0.822                     | 0.8481                |
| hellaswag           | 0.7921                | 0.7591                   | 0.7736                | 0.7536                    | 0.7969                |
| mmlu (0 shot)       | 0.6812                | 0.6213                   | 0.636                 | 0.6101                    | 0.5974                |
| openbookqa          | 0.432                 | 0.428                    | 0.442                 | 0.416                     | 0.44                  |
| piqa                | 0.8079                | 0.7933                   | 0.8041                | 0.7889                    | 0.8003                |
| pubmedqa            | 0.752                 | 0.72                     | 0.744                 | 0.726                     | 0.746                 |
| race                | 0.4478                | 0.4211                   | 0.4344                | 0.4211                    | 0.4612                |
| winogrande          | 0.7388                | 0.7277                   | 0.738                 | 0.7174                    | 0.7411                |
| truthful            | 0.4267                | 0.4002                   | 0.4607                | 0.4031                    | 0.5022                |

```
@article{junxiongdaniele2024mambainllama,
  title   = {The Mamba in the Llama: Distilling and Accelerating Hybrid Models},
  author  = {Junxiong Wang and Daniele Paliotta and Avner May and Alexander M. Rush and Tri Dao},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15237},
  year    = {2024}
}
```