Usage

The model can be used with three different frameworks

• mistral_inference: See here
• transformers: See here
• NeMo: See nvidia/Mistral-NeMo-12B-Instruct

Mistral Inference

Install

It is recommended to use mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 with mistral-inference. For HF transformers code snippets, please keep scrolling.

pip install mistral_inference

Download

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
from pathlib import Path

mistral_models_path = Path.home().joinpath('mistral_models', 'Nemo-Instruct')
mistral_models_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

snapshot_download(repo_id="mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407", allow_patterns=["params.json", "consolidated.safetensors", "tekken.json"], local_dir=mistral_models_path)

Chat

After installing mistral_inference, a mistral-chat CLI command should be available in your environment. You can chat with the model using

mistral-chat $HOME/mistral_models/Nemo-Instruct --instruct --max_tokens 256 --temperature 0.35

E.g. Try out something like:

How expensive would it be to ask a window cleaner to clean all windows in Paris. Make a reasonable guess in US Dollar.

Instruct following

from mistral_inference.transformer import Transformer
from mistral_inference.generate import generate

from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.messages import UserMessage
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest

tokenizer = MistralTokenizer.from_file(f"{mistral_models_path}/tekken.json")
model = Transformer.from_folder(mistral_models_path)

prompt = "How expensive would it be to ask a window cleaner to clean all windows in Paris. Make a reasonable guess in US Dollar."

completion_request = ChatCompletionRequest(messages=[UserMessage(content=prompt)])

tokens = tokenizer.encode_chat_completion(completion_request).tokens

out_tokens, _ = generate([tokens], model, max_tokens=64, temperature=0.35, eos_id=tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.eos_id)
result = tokenizer.decode(out_tokens[0])

print(result)

Function calling

from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.tool_calls import Function, Tool
from mistral_inference.transformer import Transformer
from mistral_inference.generate import generate

from mistral_common.tokens.tokenizers.mistral import MistralTokenizer
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.messages import UserMessage
from mistral_common.protocol.instruct.request import ChatCompletionRequest


tokenizer = MistralTokenizer.from_file(f"{mistral_models_path}/tekken.json")
model = Transformer.from_folder(mistral_models_path)

completion_request = ChatCompletionRequest(
    tools=[
        Tool(
            function=Function(
                name="get_current_weather",
                description="Get the current weather",
                parameters={
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                        "location": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA",
                        },
                        "format": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": ["celsius", "fahrenheit"],
                            "description": "The temperature unit to use. Infer this from the users location.",
                        },
                    },
                    "required": ["location", "format"],
                },
            )
        )
    ],
    messages=[
        UserMessage(content="What's the weather like today in Paris?"),
        ],
)

tokens = tokenizer.encode_chat_completion(completion_request).tokens

out_tokens, _ = generate([tokens], model, max_tokens=256, temperature=0.35, eos_id=tokenizer.instruct_tokenizer.tokenizer.eos_id)
result = tokenizer.decode(out_tokens[0])

print(result)

Transformers

[!IMPORTANT] NOTE: Until a new release has been made, you need to install transformers from source:

pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git

If you want to use Hugging Face transformers to generate text, you can do something like this.

from transformers import pipeline

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are a pirate chatbot who always responds in pirate speak!"},
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
chatbot = pipeline("text-generation", model="mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407",max_new_tokens=128)
chatbot(messages)

Function calling with transformers

To use this example, you'll need transformers version 4.42.0 or higher. Please see the function calling guide in the transformers docs for more information.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model_id = "mistralai/Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)

def get_current_weather(location: str, format: str):
    """
    Get the current weather

    Args:
        location: The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA
        format: The temperature unit to use. Infer this from the users location. (choices: ["celsius", "fahrenheit"])
    """
    pass

conversation = [{"role": "user", "content": "What's the weather like in Paris?"}]
tools = [get_current_weather]

# format and tokenize the tool use prompt 
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
            conversation,
            tools=tools,
            add_generation_prompt=True,
            return_dict=True,
            return_tensors="pt",
)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")

inputs.to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1000)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Note that, for reasons of space, this example does not show a complete cycle of calling a tool and adding the tool call and tool results to the chat history so that the model can use them in its next generation. For a full tool calling example, please see the function calling guide, and note that Mistral does use tool call IDs, so these must be included in your tool calls and tool results. They should be exactly 9 alphanumeric characters.

[!TIP] Unlike previous Mistral models, Mistral Nemo requires smaller temperatures. We recommend to use a temperature of 0.3.

Limitations

The Mistral Nemo Instruct model is a quick demonstration that the base model can be easily fine-tuned to achieve compelling performance. It does not have any moderation mechanisms. We're looking forward to engaging with the community on ways to make the model finely respect guardrails, allowing for deployment in environments requiring moderated outputs.

The Mistral AI Team

Albert Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Alexis Tacnet, Alok Kothari, Antoine Roux, Arthur Mensch, Audrey Herblin-Stoop, Augustin Garreau, Austin Birky, Bam4d, Baptiste Bout, Baudouin de Monicault, Blanche Savary, Carole Rambaud, Caroline Feldman, Devendra Singh Chaplot, Diego de las Casas, Eleonore Arcelin, Emma Bou Hanna, Etienne Metzger, Gaspard Blanchet, Gianna Lengyel, Guillaume Bour, Guillaume Lample, Harizo Rajaona, Henri Roussez, Hichem Sattouf, Ian Mack, Jean-Malo Delignon, Jessica Chudnovsky, Justus Murke, Kartik Khandelwal, Lawrence Stewart, Louis Martin, Louis Ternon, Lucile Saulnier, Lélio Renard Lavaud, Margaret Jennings, Marie Pellat, Marie Torelli, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Marjorie Janiewicz, Mickaël Seznec, Nicolas Schuhl, Niklas Muhs, Olivier de Garrigues, Patrick von Platen, Paul Jacob, Pauline Buche, Pavan Kumar Reddy, Perry Savas, Pierre Stock, Romain Sauvestre, Sagar Vaze, Sandeep Subramanian, Saurabh Garg, Sophia Yang, Szymon Antoniak, Teven Le Scao, Thibault Schueller, Thibaut Lavril, Thomas Wang, Théophile Gervet, Timothée Lacroix, Valera Nemychnikova, Wendy Shang, William El Sayed, William Marshall