A pre-trained model alone can’t really be open source. Without the source code and full data set used to generate it, a model alone is analogous to a binary.
@sunstoned@Ephera That’s nonsense. You could write the scripts, collect the data, publish all, but without the months of GPU training you wouldn’t have the trained model, so it would all be worthless. The code used to train all the proprietary models is already open-source, it’s things like PyTorch, Tensorflow etc. For a model to be open-source means you can download the weights and you are allowed to use it as you please, including modifying it and publishing again. It’s not about the dataset.
@dandi8 but you are the one who is changing it. And who said it’s not feasible? Mixtral model is open-source. WizardLM2 is open-source. Phi3:mini is open-source… what’s your point?
But the license of the model is not related to the license of the data used for training, nor the license for the scripts and libraries. Those are three separate things.
Looking at my open source model downloaded from the internet…
Yes?
What makes it open source?
The license.
If I license a binary as open source does that make it open source?
Nope. Second point in the definition: https://opensource.org/osd
My point precisely :)
A pre-trained model alone can’t really be open source. Without the source code and full data set used to generate it, a model alone is analogous to a binary.
@sunstoned @Ephera That’s nonsense. You could write the scripts, collect the data, publish all, but without the months of GPU training you wouldn’t have the trained model, so it would all be worthless. The code used to train all the proprietary models is already open-source, it’s things like PyTorch, Tensorflow etc. For a model to be open-source means you can download the weights and you are allowed to use it as you please, including modifying it and publishing again. It’s not about the dataset.
Just because open source AI is not feasible at the moment is no reason to change the definition of open source.
@dandi8 but you are the one who is changing it. And who said it’s not feasible? Mixtral model is open-source. WizardLM2 is open-source. Phi3:mini is open-source… what’s your point?
But the license of the model is not related to the license of the data used for training, nor the license for the scripts and libraries. Those are three separate things.