Model Overview

Description:

Mistral Small 3 ( 2501 ) sets a new benchmark in the "small" Large Language Models category below 70B, boasting 24B parameters and achieving state-of-the-art capabilities comparable to larger models!

Perfect for:

• Fast response conversational agents.
• Low latency function calling.
• Subject matter experts via fine-tuning.
• Local inference for hobbyists and organizations handling sensitive data.

This model is ready for commercial use.

Key features

• Multilingual: Supports dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, and Polish.
• Agent-Centric: Offers best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting.
• Advanced Reasoning: State-of-the-art conversational and reasoning capabilities.
• Apache 2.0 License: Open license allowing usage and modification for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
• Context Window: A 32k context window.
• System Prompt: Maintains strong adherence and support for system prompts.
• Tokenizer: Utilizes a Tekken tokenizer with a 131k vocabulary size.

Third-Party Community Consideration:

This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party’s requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA Mistral Small 3 release announcement.

License & Terms of use

GOVERNING TERMS: This trial service is governed by the NVIDIA API Trial Terms of Service. Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Community Model License. Additional Information: Apache 2.0.

References(s):

Mistral Small 3 Blogpost Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct [HuggingFace] (https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501)

Model Architecture:

Architecture Type: Transformer
Network Architecture: Mistral
Model Version: Small 3 ( 2501 )

This transformer model has the following characteristics:

• Layers: 40
• Dim: 5,120
• Head dim: 128
• Hidden dim: 32,768
• Activation Function: SwiGLU
• Number of heads: 32
• Number of kv-heads: 8 (GQA)
• Rotary embeddings (theta = 1M)
• Vocabulary size: 32,768
• Context length: 32,768

Input

• Input Type: Text
• Input Format: String
• Input Parameters: 1D
• Other Properties: max_tokens, temperature, top_p, stop, frequency_penalty, presence_penalty, seed

Output

• Output Type: Text
• Output Format: String
• Output Parameters: 1D

Benchmarks

Publicly accesible benchmarks

Reasoning & Knowledge

Evaluation	mistral-small-24B-instruct-2501	gemma-2b-27b	llama-3.3-70b	qwen2.5-32b	gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
mmlu_pro_5shot_cot_instruct	0.663	0.536	0.666	0.683	0.617
gpqa_main_cot_5shot_instruct	0.453	0.344	0.531	0.404	0.377

Math & Coding

Evaluation	mistral-small-24B-instruct-2501	gemma-2b-27b	llama-3.3-70b	qwen2.5-32b	gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
humaneval_instruct_pass@1	0.848	0.732	0.854	0.909	0.890
math_instruct	0.706	0.535	0.743	0.819	0.761

Instruction following

Evaluation	mistral-small-24B-instruct-2501	gemma-2b-27b	llama-3.3-70b	qwen2.5-32b	gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18
mtbench_dev	8.35	7.86	7.96	8.26	8.33
wildbench	52.27	48.21	50.04	52.73	56.13
arena_hard	0.873	0.788	0.840	0.860	0.897
ifeval	0.829	0.8065	0.8835	0.8401	0.8499

Note:

• Performance accuracy on all benchmarks were obtained through the same internal evaluation pipeline - as such, numbers may vary slightly from previously reported performance (Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, Gemma-2-27B-IT).
• Judge based evals such as Wildbench, Arena hard and MTBench were based on gpt-4o-2024-05-13.

Software Integration:

Runtime Engine(s): TensorRT-LLM
Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility: NVIDIA Ampere, NVIDIA Blackwell, NVIDIA Jetson, NVIDIA Hopper, NVIDIA Lovelace, NVIDIA Pascal, NVIDIA Turing, and NVIDIA Volta architecture
[Preferred/Supported] Operating System(s): Linux

Model Version(s):

mistral-small-24b-instruct v1.0

Training, Testing, and Evaluation Datasets:

Training Dataset:

Data Collection Method by dataset: Human, Unknown
Labeling Method by dataset: Human, Unknown

Testing Dataset:

Data Collection Method by dataset: Human, Unknown
Labeling Method by dataset: Human, Unknown

Evaluation Dataset:

Data Collection Method by dataset: Human, Unknown
Labeling Method by dataset: Human, Unknown

Inference:

Engine: TensorRT-LLM
Test Hardware: L40S

Ethical Considerations:

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