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Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO is an open-weights language model from Nous Research, released February 2024. Its published size is 7.24B parameters and a 33k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO @ebec0a6 (created 2024-02-18, licence apache-2.0). Independent row: Open PT-LLM leaderboard average.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

HF safetensors metadata 7,241,748,480 parameters.

40.2±2.2#529 of 719 LLMsfrom 4 benchmark results across 2 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO, out of 828 with a score, then more from Nous Research.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
619Granite 4.0 H 1B IBM40±1local~2.3GB2025-10
620Llama3-OpenBioLLM-8B Saama AI Labs40±2local~6.6GB2024-04
621Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO Nous Research40±2local~6.1GB2024-02
622Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPO Nous Research40±2local~31GB2024-01
623Deita 7B v1.0 HKUST NLP40±2local~32GB2023-12
more from Nous Research
389Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 405B Nous Research51±1local~114GB2024-08
447Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B Nous Research49±1local~44GB2024-07
461Hermes 2 Theta Llama-3 70B Nous Research48±2local~47GB2024-06

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$ what it's good at

other tests4 not in a task · 98% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
MedQA (USMLE, 4 options)53.1% ✎▁▁··▄▁▁··▄▃█ beats 12/17easy · avg 76%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 56%sharp · at its level
MedMCQA49.0% ✎▂▂··▄▄▂▂·▄██ beats 11/17medium · avg 68%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 30%at its level
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks)66.8% ✎▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█▅▁ beats 129/276medium · avg 73%▇▇▇▇ 9.5%at its level · noisy
PubMedQA74.8% ✎▂·▂▆·▄▂▄▄▂█▂ beats 15/17medium · avg 77%▇ 3.2%blunt · at its level

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO · needs ~4.37 GB · from huggingface.co/NousResearch (official)
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO · needs ~4.37 GB · from huggingface.co/NousResearch (official)

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Nous Hermes 2 Mistral 7B DPO · needs ~4.37 GB · from huggingface.co/NousResearch (official)
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/NousResearch/Nous-Hermes-2-Mistral-7B-DPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/NousResearch ↗

$ how the score was worked out · Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard… 88%, Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboa… 9%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
Open Medical-LLM Leaderboard results (HF dataset openlifescienceai/results)3▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 88%Apache-2.0
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard (archived)1▇▇▇ 9%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 2%
weighted average= 40.2

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