---
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
tags:
- merge
- mergekit
- passthrough
- llama3
---

# llama3-passthrough-chat

llama3-passthrough-chat is a merge of the following models using [mergekit](https://github.com/arcee-ai/mergekit):

* [Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct)

## 🧩 Configuration

```yaml
slices:
  - sources:
    - model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
      layer_range: [0, 24]
  - sources:
    - model: meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
      layer_range: [8, 32]
merge_method: passthrough
dtype: float16

```