whatmodel.sh / zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO

zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO is an open-weights language model from Chujie Zheng (ExPO), released April 2024. Its published size is 7.24B parameters. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

Maker repo chujiezheng/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO @0ed80e3: licence tag apache-2.0. 7,241,732,096 parameters from the Hugging Face safetensors metadata (dense, so active = total). Released 2024-04: month the maker's Hugging Face repo was created (createdAt 2024-04-28).

37.6±2.2#762 of 949 LLMsfrom 1 benchmark result across 1 source* thinly tested, treat the rank as provisional

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO, out of 1132 with a score, then more from Chujie Zheng (ExPO).

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
925Sarvam-M Sarvam AI38±5local~16GB2025-05
926Code Tulu 2 7B Allen Institute for AI38±2local~16GB2023-11
927zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO Chujie Zheng (ExPO)38±2local~6.1GB2024-04
928SOLAR 10.7B Instruct v1.0 Upstage37±1local~8.3GB2023-12
929Phi-3.5-vision-instruct Microsoft37±2local~10GB2024-08
more from Chujie Zheng (ExPO)
548Llama-3-Instruct-8B-SimPO-ExPO Chujie Zheng (ExPO)51±1local~6.6GB2024-05
660Mistral7B-PairRM-SPPO-ExPO Chujie Zheng (ExPO)47±2local~6.1GB2024-05
730internlm2-chat-20b-ExPO Chujie Zheng (ExPO)45±2local~14GB2024-05

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$ what it's good at

chat & writing▁▁▁▄▆▅▆█▆▆▆▂ #406 of 466 * · 98% of its score · 1 test

Beats Gemma 4 E2B, Code Llama 70B Instruct, Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct (June 2024 update) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Gemma 3 270M IT, SmolLM2 360M Instruct, Granite 4.0 H 350M here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
AlpacaEval 2 length-controlled13.6% ✎▁▂▂▃▆▆█▆▄▄▁▁ beats 33/122medium · avg 39%▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 98%typical

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

version

  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 zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/mradermacher
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf mradermacher/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf mradermacher/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

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

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/mradermacher

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

version

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO · needs ~4.4 GB · from huggingface.co/mradermacher
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Other ways to run it

  1. Run it as published · needs ~14.48 GB · from huggingface.co/chujiezheng (official)
    uv run --with torch --with 'transformers<5' --with accelerate python -c "from transformers import pipeline; print(pipeline('text-generation', model='chujiezheng/zephyr-7b-alpha-ExPO', torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')('Once upon a time', max_new_tokens=40)[0]['generated_text'])"

Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/chujiezheng ↗

$ how the score was worked out · AlpacaEval 1.0 and 2.0 leader… 98%

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
AlpacaEval 1.0 and 2.0 leaderboards (tatsu-lab/alpaca_eval repository)1▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 98%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 2%
weighted average= 37.6

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