Vemana-Base
Vemana-Base is a 278-million-parameter Telugu base language model trained from scratch on public Telugu web text. It continues text rather than following instructions, and is reported to run on a laptop-class CPU.
What it does
Use it as a base for Telugu research and for building tools through fine-tuning or continued pretraining.
- Availability
- Try in browser, Hugging Face Spaces, or download checkpoints and GGUF
- Pricing model
- Apache-2.0
- Deployment
- Runs on a laptop-class CPU
- Privacy
- Not established
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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Evidence
6 claims- The model is licensed under Apache-2.0. [1]
pages written after the compared models were released, it predicts text better than every other open base model under
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - Vemana-Base has 278 million parameters and is a Telugu base model. [1]
- It continues Telugu text and does not follow instructions. [1]
It is a base model: it continues Telugu text and does not follow instructions.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model is available on Hugging Face, in a browser demo, and on Hugging Face Spaces. [1]
- It runs on a laptop-class CPU. [1]
It runs on a laptop-class CPU.
Hugging Face. Quoted text is outside CC BY 4.0 and keeps its original rights. - The model has a 1,024-token context length. [1]
Sources
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Hugging FaceOwner-controlled
https://huggingface.co/udgamlabs/Vemana-Base
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