# Falcon

[Falcon](https://falconllm.tii.ae/) is a series of open language models from the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, known for being trained on a high-quality curated web corpus (RefinedWeb).

:::{card}
| | |
|---|---|
| **Task** | Text Generation |
| **Architecture** | `FalconForCausalLM` |
| **Parameters** | 7B – 40B |
| **HF Org** | [tiiuae](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae) |
:::

## Available Models

- **Falcon-40B**, **Falcon-40B-Instruct**
- **Falcon-7B**, **Falcon-7B-Instruct**
- **Falcon-RW-7B**
- **Falcon3-7B-Instruct**

## Architecture

- `FalconForCausalLM`

## Example HF Models

| Model | HF ID |
|---|---|
| Falcon 7B | [`tiiuae/falcon-7b`](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b) |
| Falcon 40B | [`tiiuae/falcon-40b`](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b) |
| Falcon RW 7B | [`tiiuae/falcon-rw-7b`](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-rw-7b) |

## Example Recipes

| Recipe | Description |
|---|---|
| {download}`falcon3_7b_instruct_squad.yaml <../../../../examples/llm_finetune/falcon/falcon3_7b_instruct_squad.yaml>` | SFT — Falcon3 7B Instruct on SQuAD |
| {download}`falcon3_7b_instruct_squad_peft.yaml <../../../../examples/llm_finetune/falcon/falcon3_7b_instruct_squad_peft.yaml>` | LoRA — Falcon3 7B Instruct on SQuAD |


## Try with NeMo AutoModel

**1. Install** ([full instructions](../../../guides/installation.md)):

```bash
pip install nemo-automodel
```

**2. Clone the repo** to get the example recipes:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel.git
cd Automodel
```

**3. Run the recipe** from inside the repo:

```bash
automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/falcon/falcon3_7b_instruct_squad.yaml
```

:::{dropdown} Run with Docker
**1. Pull the container** and mount a checkpoint directory:

```bash
docker run --gpus all -it --rm \
  --shm-size=8g \
  -v $(pwd)/checkpoints:/opt/Automodel/checkpoints \
  nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo-automodel:26.02.00
```

**2.** Navigate to the AutoModel directory (where the recipes are):

```bash
cd /opt/Automodel
```

**3. Run the recipe**:

```bash
automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/falcon/falcon3_7b_instruct_squad.yaml
```
:::

See the [Installation Guide](../../../guides/installation.md) and [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](../../../guides/llm/finetune.md).

## Fine-Tuning

See the [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](../../../guides/llm/finetune.md).

## Hugging Face Model Cards

- [tiiuae/falcon-7b](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-7b)
- [tiiuae/falcon-40b](https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-40b)
