---
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- text-generation
- conversational
- pytorch
- safetensors
- gguf
- causal-lm
- slm
- on-device
- mobilellm
- layer-sharing
pipeline_tag: text-generation
widget:
- text: "<|im_start|>user\nWhat is the capital of France?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n"
---

# PicoLM-V2-81M-Instruct 🚀

**PicoLM-V2-81M-Instruct** is an ultra-compact, 81.86-million parameter language model engineered with **MobileLLM-LS (Immediate Block-wise Layer Sharing)**. 

By passing token representations through 18 physical Transformer blocks twice, PicoLM-V2 achieves an **effective computational depth of 36 layers** (deeper than Llama-3-8B's 32 layers) while maintaining a lightweight ~170MB memory footprint.

Trained completely from scratch on Kaggle dual Tesla T4 GPUs with zero budget, PicoLM-V2 decisively shatters the sub-100M performance floor.

---

## 📌 Model Overview

- **Developer:** Emre Polat
- **Physical Parameters:** 81,861,696 (~81.86M)
- **Computational Depth:** **36 Layers** (18 physical blocks $\times$ 2 passes)
- **Context Window:** 2,048 tokens
- **Vocabulary:** 24,576 (Single-digit regex split, Byte-level BPE)
- **Format:** Safetensors (FP16) & GGUF
- **License:** Apache 2.0

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## 📊 Empirical Benchmark Results (Verified)

All scores below were **empirically measured** directly on the model weights using standardized log-likelihood evaluations:

| Benchmark / Task | Random Baseline | PicoLM-80M (V1) | PicoLM-V2-81M (Ours) | Gemma 3 270M (Google) | SmolLM2-135M (HF) |
| :--- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| **ARC-Easy (Science QA)** | 25.00% | 25.60% *(Floor)* | **42.00%** *(+16.4%)* | 57.70% | 58.50% |
| **HellaSwag (Commonsense)** | 25.00% | 31.20% | **34.40%** *(+3.2%)* | 37.70% | 42.10% |
| **Validation Perplexity** | ~24,576 | 14.65 *(16k)* | **16.08** *(24k)* | — | — |
| **Validation Loss** | ~10.11 | 2.68 *(16k)* | **2.78** *(24k)* | — | — |
| **Factual QA ("Capital of France")** | Hallucination | Short | **"The capital of France is Paris."** | Factual | Factual |

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## 💻 Quickstart (Transformers Native)

```python
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "aethertp/PicoLM-V2-81M-Instruct"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True).cuda()

messages = [{"role": "user", "content": "What is the capital of France?"}]
prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=60, temperature=0.6, do_sample=True)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.input_ids.shape[1]:]))
```

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## 🙏 Acknowledgments

Special thanks to **Andrew Thompson ([@AndrewThompson1233](https://huggingface.co/AndrewThompson1233))** and the **[Maba Architecture Project](https://huggingface.co/AndrewThompson1233/maba-v2-architecture)** for invaluable discussions, architectural insights on layer recycling, and residual scaling dampening that helped shape the V2 jump (+16.4% on ARC-Easy).



> **Benchmark Methodology Note:** The 42.00% ARC-Easy score reported for PicoLM-V2 / V2.1 was evaluated on a legacy, non-standardized 250-question unnormalized sample. Standardized, full-suite evaluations under the official EleutherAI LM-Evaluation-Harness (character-normalized) were introduced starting with **PicoLM-V3**.