Mistral

Released in September 2023, Mistral AI’s Mistral 7B is another classic transformer decoder framework Large Language Model with significant enhancements. The Mistral AI team implemented Grouped-Query Attention and Sliding Window Attention, which leverages Flash Attention 2. More information about the model and how it was trained are available in the companion paper “Mistral 7B”.

• Data Preparation
• Training with Predefined Configurations
• Checkpoint Conversion
• Model Evaluation
• Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)

Feature	Status
Data parallelism	✓
Tensor parallelism	✓
Pipeline parallelism	✓
Interleaved Pipeline Parallelism Sched	N/A
Sequence parallelism	✓
Selective activation checkpointing	✓
Gradient checkpointing	✓
Partial gradient checkpointing	✓
FP32/TF32	✓
AMP/FP16	✗
BF16	✓
TransformerEngine/FP8	✗
Multi-GPU	✓
Multi-Node	✓
Inference	N/A
Slurm	✓
Base Command Manager	✓
Base Command Platform	✓
Distributed data preprcessing	✓
NVfuser	✗
P-Tuning and Prompt Tuning	✓
IA3 and Adapter learning	✓
Distributed Optimizer	✓
Distributed Checkpoint	✓
Fully Shared Data Parallel	N/A