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Iambe-20b-DARE-v2

### Description Named after a charming daughter of Echo and Pan in Greek myth, Iambe-20b-DARE-v2 is an improved [DARE](https://github.com/yule-BUAA/MergeLM) merge building on my recent experiments. Iambe is intended to have the best realistically possible understanding of anatomy and of a scene's state for a 20b merge, while remaining personable and authentic in "voice". ### Update Methodology Noromaid and the general "no-robots" vibe didn't come through like I'd hoped in v1. My hypothesis is that the "soul" MythoMax and Noromaid have is probably distributed widely over many low-value deltas, due to the "ephemeral" nature of such a thing. My old base model was likely giving DARE conniption fits, so I replaced that with a truly vanilla 20b base model. CleverGirl was updated to the DARE version, as Sir Hillary said, simply because it was there. Without a large base of dare_ties models to compare to, I'm basically feeling my way through this intuitively, so here's to good results! ### Recipe merge_method: dare_ties - base_model: athirdpath/BigLlama-20b-v1.1 - model: Noromaid-20b-v0.1.1 weight: 0.38 / density: 0.60 - model: athirdpath/athirdpath/Eileithyia-20b weight: 0.22 / density: 0.40 - model: athirdpath/CleverGirl-20b-Blended-v1.1-DARE weight: 0.40 / density: 0.33 int8_mask: true dtype: bfloat16