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snkii/Sori-1B: Audio-Grounded LM Trained From Scratch (No Text-Only Pretraining)

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Sori-1B is a 1B-parameter audio-language model built by a single SNU researcher whose core claim to fame is that its decoder is trained entirely from scratch on audio-paired text — no text-only pretraining, no pretrained-LM initialization — with the idea being that a language model which has only e…

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  1. 2026-08-31 02:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
    snkii/Sori-1B: Audio-Grounded LM Trained From Scratch (No Text-Only Pretraining)

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