README.md

---
language:
- en
license: apache-2.0
base_model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M
tags:
- json
- structured-output
- edge-ai
- iot
- small-language-model
- peft
- lora
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# CycleCore Maaza SLM-360M-JSON v1.0.0

Small Language Model (360M parameters) for high-accuracy JSON extraction on edge and server deployments.

## Model Details

- **Developer**: CycleCore Technologies
- **Model Name**: CycleCore Maaza SLM-360M-JSON
- **Version**: v1.0.0
- **Base Model**: SmolLM2-360M (HuggingFaceTB)
- **Training Method**: LoRA fine-tuning (r=32, alpha=64)
- **Task**: Structured JSON extraction
- **License**: Apache 2.0
- **Parameters**: 360M total (379M), 17.4M trainable (4.58%)
- **Model Size**: ~720MB (FP16), ~180MB (Q4 quantized)
- **Context Length**: 4096 tokens

## Intended Use

### Primary Use Cases
- Production JSON extraction with high accuracy requirements
- Medium to complex schema extraction (4-12 fields, 1-2 nesting levels)
- API gateway response parsing and transformation
- Enterprise data integration pipelines
- Document processing workflows

### Target Hardware
- **Server Deployment**: CPU or GPU, 16GB+ RAM
- **High-End Edge**: Laptop/workstation with 16GB+ RAM
- **Browser**: WebGPU (via ONNX Runtime)
- **Cloud**: Cost-effective alternative to API-based solutions

### Out of Scope
- Open-ended conversation or creative writing
- Complex reasoning or multi-hop logic
- Math problem solving
- General-purpose chat applications

## Benchmark Performance

### EdgeJSON v3 Benchmark

Evaluated on 158 test cases across 24 schema types:

| Metric | Score |
|--------|-------|
| **JSONExact** | 55.1% |
| **Field F1** | 0.729 |
| **Schema Compliance** | 74.1% |
| **Latency (CPU)** | 17.2 tokens/sec |
| **Throughput** | 5.7 tokens/sec (estimated)|
| **Training Time** | 90.1 seconds |

### By Complexity Level

| Complexity | Fields | Nesting | JSONExact | Field F1 |
|------------|--------|---------|-----------|----------|
| Simple | 2-4 | Flat | 78.9% | 0.927 |
| Medium | 4-8 | 1-2 levels | 51.4% | 0.815 |
| Complex | 8+ | 2+ levels | 4.0% | 0.072 |

### Top Performing Schemas

**Perfect (100% JSONExact)**:
- `log_entry` (4 fields, simple)
- `product_info` (2 fields, simple)
- `sensor_reading` (4 fields, simple)
- `transaction_record` (5 fields, simple)

**High Accuracy (80%+)**:
- `notification` (88.9%)
- `simple_config` (87.5%)
- `support_ticket` (87.5%)
- `rating` (85.7%)
- `order_details` (83.3%)

### Capacity Scaling Analysis

Comparison to MLM-135M demonstrates scaling effectiveness:

| Model | Params | JSONExact | Field F1 | Simple | Medium | Complex |
|-------|--------|-----------|----------|--------|--------|---------|
| MLM-135M | 135M | 24.7% | 0.520 | 44.7% | 13.5% | 0.0% |
| **SLM-360M** | 360M | **55.1%** | **0.729** | **78.9%** | **51.4%** | **4.0%** |
| **Improvement** | 2.67× | **2.23×** | **1.40×** | **1.77×** | **3.81×** | **∞** |

**Key Finding**: Complex schema ceiling breakthrough - 360M breaks the 0% barrier that 135M hit, proving capacity matters for structured tasks.

### Training Efficiency

- **Base SmolLM2-360M**: 11.4% JSONExact (zero-shot)
- **Fine-tuned (this model)**: 55.1% JSONExact
- **Training Multiplier**: 4.83× improvement

**Training Multiplier Insight**: Larger models benefit less from fine-tuning (4.83×) vs smaller models (13× for 135M), suggesting better pre-training quality but diminishing fine-tuning returns.

## Training Data

### Dataset: EdgeJSON v3
- **Total Examples**: 787 (validated)
- **Train Split**: 629 examples (80%)
- **Test Split**: 158 examples (20%)
- **Validation Rate**: 100% (all examples pass schema validation)
- **Schema Count**: 24 unique schemas
- **Complexity Distribution**: 38 simple, 74 medium, 46 complex

### Data Generation
- **Teacher Model**: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
- **Method**: Synthetic generation with validation
- **Quality Control**: 100% schema compliance, manual review sampling

### Prompt Template
```
Extract the structured JSON data from the following text.

Input: {prompt}

Output:
```

## Training Procedure

### Hardware
- **GPU**: NVIDIA RTX 4080 SUPER (16GB)
- **Training Time**: 90.1 seconds
- **Effective Batch Size**: 32 (4 per device × 8 gradient accumulation)

### Hyperparameters
- **Method**: LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
- **LoRA Rank (r)**: 32 (2× larger than 135M)
- **LoRA Alpha**: 64 (2× larger than 135M)
- **LoRA Dropout**: 0.1
- **Target Modules**: q_proj, v_proj, k_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj
- **Learning Rate**: 1.5e-4 (slightly lower than 135M)
- **Optimizer**: AdamW (β1=0.9, β2=0.999, ε=1e-8)
- **Weight Decay**: 0.01
- **LR Scheduler**: Cosine with 10% warmup
- **Epochs**: 3
- **Precision**: BF16 mixed precision
- **Max Grad Norm**: 1.0

### Training Loss
- **Final Training Loss**: 1.297 (better than 135M's 1.449)

## Evaluation Methodology

### Metrics

**JSONExact Score**:
- Binary exact match (0 or 1 per example)
- Compares predicted JSON to ground truth
- Requires perfect field matching

**Field F1**:
- Per-field precision and recall
- Averaged across all fields
- Partial credit for correct fields

**Schema Compliance**:
- Validates against JSON schema specification
- Checks required fields, types, structure

### Inference Settings
- **Temperature**: 0.0 (deterministic)
- **Max Tokens**: 512
- **Format**: JSON mode enforced
- **Platform**: CUDA (GPU) or CPU

### JSON Validation

After generation, validate the output:

```python
import json
from jsonschema import validate  # pip install jsonschema

# Decode model output
output = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)

# Parse JSON
try:
    obj = json.loads(output)
    # Validate against schema
    validate(instance=obj, schema=your_json_schema)
    print("✅ Valid JSON matching schema")
except json.JSONDecodeError:
    print("❌ Invalid JSON")
except jsonschema.exceptions.ValidationError as e:
    print(f"❌ Schema validation failed: {e.message}")
```

## Limitations and Bias

### Known Limitations

**Complex Schema Ceiling**: While this model breaks through the 0% ceiling that MLM-135M hit on complex schemas, it still achieves only 4.0% exact match on 8+ field schemas with 2+ nesting levels. For production complex schema extraction, consider larger models (>500M params) or specialized architectures.

**Medium Schema Viability**: Best suited for simple (78.9%) and medium (51.4%) schemas. Medium schema performance is production-viable but may require validation/correction workflows.

**Synthetic Data**: Trained exclusively on synthetically generated data from Qwen2.5-7B, which may not capture all real-world edge cases.

**Latency Trade-off**: 2.67× larger than MLM-135M but similar CPU inference speed (17.2 vs 18.5 tok/sec), making it an excellent value-for-accuracy trade-off.

### Potential Biases
- Inherits biases from teacher model (Qwen2.5-7B)
- Synthetic data may not reflect real-world data distributions
- Performance varies significantly by schema complexity (simple vs complex)

### Ethical Considerations
- **Privacy**: On-device deployment avoids cloud API calls, keeping data local
- **Energy**: Fast training (90.1s) and efficient inference reduce carbon footprint
- **Transparency**: 100% open training methodology, reproducible results
- **Accessibility**: Apache 2.0 license enables free commercial use

## Links

- **EdgeJSON Benchmark**: [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/CycleCore/SLMBench) (evaluation harness & dataset)
- **Technical Documentation**: [SLMBench Docs](https://github.com/CycleCore/SLMBench/tree/main/benchmarks/edge_json)
- **Model Card (135M)**: [Maaza-MLM-135M-JSON](https://huggingface.co/CycleCoreTechnologies/Maaza-MLM-135M-JSON-v1)

## How to Use

### Installation

```bash
pip install transformers peft torch
```

### Loading the Model

```python
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
from peft import PeftModel

# Load base model
base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto"
)

# Load LoRA adapter
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(
    base_model,
    "CycleCore/Maaza-SLM-360M-JSON-v1"
)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M")
```

### Inference Example (Medium Complexity)

```python
prompt = """Extract the structured JSON data from the following text.

Input: Order #12345 placed by Jane Smith (jane@example.com) on 2025-11-20.
Items: 2x Widget ($19.99 each), 1x Gadget ($49.99).
Shipping to 123 Main St, Springfield, IL 62701. Total: $89.97.

Output:"""

inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=512,
    temperature=0.0,
    do_sample=False
)

result = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(result)
```

### Expected Output

```json
{
  "order_id": "12345",
  "customer": {
    "name": "Jane Smith",
    "email": "jane@example.com"
  },
  "order_date": "2025-11-20",
  "items": [
    {"name": "Widget", "quantity": 2, "price": 19.99},
    {"name": "Gadget", "quantity": 1, "price": 49.99}
  ],
  "shipping_address": {
    "street": "123 Main St",
    "city": "Springfield",
    "state": "IL",
    "zip": "62701"
  },
  "total": 89.97
}
```

## Model Comparison

**Quick Decision**:
- **Use SLM-360M** if: Higher accuracy required (55%+), medium schemas (4-8 fields), production deployments, accuracy > latency priority
- **Use MLM-135M** if: Ultra-low latency required, simple schemas only (2-4 fields), extreme resource constraints (<500MB)

**Performance Summary**:
| Criterion | MLM-135M | SLM-360M |
|-----------|----------|----------|
| JSONExact | 24.7% | 55.1% (2.23× better) |
| Simple Schemas | 44.7% | 78.9% (1.77× better) |
| Medium Schemas | 13.5% | 51.4% (3.81× better) |
| Complex Schemas | 0.0% | 4.0% (breakthrough) |
| Model Size | ~270MB | ~720MB |
| Latency (CPU) | 18.5 tok/s | 17.2 tok/s |

## Citation

If you use this model in your research, please cite:

```bibtex
@misc{cyclecore2025slm,
  title={CycleCore Maaza SLM-360M-JSON: Small Language Model for Edge JSON Extraction},
  author={CycleCore Technologies},
  year={2025},
  publisher={HuggingFace},
  howpublished={\url{https://huggingface.co/CycleCore/Maaza-SLM-360M-JSON-v1}},
}
```

**Academic Paper** (forthcoming):
```bibtex
@article{cyclecore2025slmbench,
  title={Capacity Scaling in Micro and Small Language Models: Evidence from EdgeJSON Benchmark},
  author={CycleCore Technologies},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025},
  note={Paper in preparation}
}
```

## Links

- **Model Repository**: https://huggingface.co/CycleCore/Maaza-SLM-360M-JSON-v1
- **Base Model**: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M
- **Companion Model**: https://huggingface.co/CycleCore/Maaza-MLM-135M-JSON-v1
- **SLMBench Benchmark**: https://github.com/CycleCore/SLMBench
- **Documentation**: https://github.com/CycleCore/SLMBench/tree/main/docs
- **Capacity Scaling Analysis**: https://github.com/CycleCore/SLMBench/blob/main/results/CAPACITY_SCALING_ANALYSIS.md
- **Paper**: Coming soon (arXiv)
- **Website**: slmbench.com (coming soon)

## Version History

### v1.0.0 (2025-11-20)
- Initial release
- Trained on EdgeJSON v3 dataset (validated)
- 55.1% JSONExact, 0.729 Field F1
- LoRA fine-tuning (r=32, alpha=64)
- 90.1 second training time
- Breakthrough: 4.0% on complex schemas (vs 0% for 135M)
- Apache 2.0 license

## Contact

For questions, issues, or collaboration:
- **Email**: hi@cyclecore.ai
- **X/Twitter**: [@CycleCoreTech](https://x.com/CycleCoreTech)

## License

Apache License 2.0

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