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Aurora-80K releases! A modern tiny language model.

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I'm introducing Aurora-80K, a small language model with exactly 80 thousand parameters. It uses a factorized 4,096-token vocabulary despite having only 80K parameters. The benchmarks: Wikitext-2 BPB: 3.2902 BLiMP: 52.31% Arc-Easy: 26.05% More information about the model is available on the model pa…

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  1. 2026-08-20 11:45 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Aurora-80K releases! A modern tiny language model.

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