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| license: apache-2.0 |
| tags: |
| - north-ml |
| - flare-1 |
| - deltanet |
| - hybrid-attention |
| thumbnail: banner.png |
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| # Ink — North ML Flare-1 (~725M) |
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| The smallest Flare-1 tier: Qwen3.5-derived gated **DeltaNet + GQA hybrid** |
| backbone with **AgentRegisters** — persistent learned state slots for |
| agent-style memory. This is the full-precision training checkpoint |
| (HF `transformers` format). The production 8-bit Kestrel build with the |
| learned router, Fiber memory trunk, and search pipeline is at |
| [North-ML1/Ink-1](https://huggingface.co/North-ML1/Ink-1). |
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| ## Benchmarks (measured, same harness — Modal L4, greedy, Nov-2025) |
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| | Model | ARC-C | MMLU | GSM8K | HumanEval | |
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| | **ink (725M)** | 63.8% | 32.0% | 30.0% | 37.5% | |
| | fiber-lite (1.6B) | 72.9% | 38.0% | 16.0% | 37.5% | |
| | fiber-pro (1.6B) | 80.9% | 40.0% | 14.0% | 48.4% | |
| | Qwen3-0.6B (raw) | 49.2% | 29.0% | 4.0% | 4.7% | |
| | Qwen3-1.7B (raw) | 72.9% | 39.5% | 43.0% | 68.8% | |
| | SmolLM3-3B (raw) | 77.9% | 36.0% | 51.0% | 71.9% | |
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| Subsets: ARC-C n=199, MMLU n=200, GSM8K n=100, HumanEval n=64. Honest read: |
| strongest size-adjusted scores on knowledge MC in this lineup; trails the |
| newer 1.7B-3B models on math and code. |
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| ## Specs |
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| | Parameters | ~725M (565M backbone + 158M Fiber trunk + registers + bridge) | |
| | Layers | 24 | |
| | Hidden | 1024 | |
| | Attention | GQA 8 heads / 2 KV, DeltaNet:GQA = 3:1 | |
| | Context | 262,144 tokens | |
| | Vocab | 65,536 | |
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| ## Interactive chat |
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| ```bash |
| pip install torch transformers safetensors huggingface_hub |
| python3 chat.py --model North-ML1/ink |
| ``` |
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| `chat.py` (in this repo) auto-downloads the weights, attaches the |
| AgentRegisters, and starts a REPL with optional two-phase thinking. |
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| ## Links |
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| - Architecture report: [Flare-1 paper](https://huggingface.co/spaces/North-ML1/flare-1-paper) |
| - Runtime artifacts: [Ink-1](https://huggingface.co/North-ML1/Ink-1) · [Fiber](https://huggingface.co/North-ML1/Fiber) · [Fiber-pro](https://huggingface.co/North-ML1/Fiber-pro) |
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