
This model was created by merging [intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct](https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct) and [stabilityai/japanese-stablelm-base-gamma-7b](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/japanese-stablelm-base-gamma-7b).  
See [intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct](https://huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct) page or [evaluation notebook of oshizo/JapaneseEmbeddingEval](https://github.com/oshizo/JapaneseEmbeddingEval/blob/main/21_oshizo_japanese-e5-mistral-7b_slerp.ipynb) for model usage.

The steps to merge are as follows.

1. Load intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct as a "MistralForCausalLM" class and save_pretrained as is.

Because e5-mistral-7b-instruct is made with the "MistralModel" class, it could not be merged with "MistraForCausalLM" as is.  
In my environment, I had to load into the CPU, not the GPU, or I would get an error.

```
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "intfloat/e5-mistral-7b-instruct"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)#, device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

model.save_pretrained("./e5-mistral-7b-instruct_with_lm_head")
```

2. Merge using [mergekit](https://github.com/cg123/mergekit) with the following yaml configuration

merge_config.yaml
``` 
models:
  - model: stabilityai/japanese-stablelm-base-gamma-7b
  - model: ./e5-mistral-7b-instruct_with_lm_head
base_model: stabilityai/japanese-stablelm-base-gamma-7b
parameters:
  t:
    - value: [0.5, 0.9]

merge_method: slerp
dtype: float16
```

I tried the "linear", "slerp", and "task_arithmetic" merging methods, and this setting seemed to be the best.  
The choice of "t" parameters was set to use more japanese-stablelm-base-gamma-7b for the layer closer to the input to take advantage of Japanese word understanding, 
and more e5-mistral-7b-instruct for the layer closer to the output to generate good embeddings.  
As for the "ties" method, I could not find any parameters for density and weight that worked properly.

3. Copy settings related to pad_token from the e5-mistral-7b-instruct repository.

* config.json
* tokenizer.json
* tokenizer.model
* tokenizer_config.json
* special_tokens_map.json
{"language": ["ja"], "license": "mit", "pipeline_tag": "sentence-similarity"}
transformers safetensors mistral feature-extraction sentence-similarity ja license:mit endpoints_compatible text-generation-inference region:us