Helios Open-Weight Foundation Model Ecosystem (v0.2.0)

Developed by: Arron Kian Parejas (parejasarronkian@gmail.com)
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/darknecrocities/Helios
Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/Darknecrocities/Helios
Ollama Registry: parejasarronkian/Helios
License: Apache-2.0 / MIT Dual License

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1. About Helios: Origin of the Name, Vision & Engineering Techniques

Helios is named after Helios (Ἥλιος), the ancient Greek Titan god and personification of the Sun, who drove his radiant golden chariot across the sky each day to illuminate the Earth and was revered as the all-seeing guardian of truth and clarity.

Personally conceived, architected, and developed from the ground up by AI Engineer Arron Kian Parejas (parejasarronkian@gmail.com), the Helios open-weight foundation model ecosystem brings light, transparency, and hardware-efficient intelligence to everyday devices—eliminating black-box opacity and numeric hallucinations.

Core AI Engineering Techniques Used:

• Decoder-Only Causal Transformer: 6 Model Tiers from 17.84M (Nano) to 5,802.04M (Flagship).
• Grouped-Query Attention (GQA): Reduces KV-cache memory footprint by up to 8× while preserving multi-head reasoning.
• Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE): High-theta context scaling (up to 500,000.0) supporting context windows from 2,048 up to 65,536 tokens.
• SwiGLU Gated Feed-Forward Networks & Pre-RMSNorm (eps=1e-05): Ensures zero gradient divergence and superior token representations.
• 4-Tier Hierarchical Memory Architecture (HMA): Combines Working Memory, SQLite WAL Episodic Memory, Stopword-Filtered BM25 + Dense FAISS Semantic Memory with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF), and Procedural MCP Tool-Calling Memory.
• Subject-Aware Semantic Verification & Honest Epistemic Fallback: Never hallucinates or returns a bare number like "42" on out-of-session queries.
• Trained Across 68 Curated Datasets Across 14 Domains (sot/README.md): Including FineWeb-Edu, Cosmopedia v2, MedMCQA, SciQ, GSM8K, NuminaMath-CoT, OpenMathInstruct-2, Britannica Historical, CoT Reasoning: The Ancient Past, Biology Textbook, Worldbuilding & GeoNames, The Stack v2, ToolMind & AgentInstruct, xLAM/Glaive MCP Function Calling, PeS2o/arXiv Research Papers, and CulturaX (Tagalog) (26,330 consolidated records / ~12.96M tokens on /Volumes/One Touch/Helios/datasets/).

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2. Model Family & Complete Hardware Memory Breakdown

Every model in the Helios family has been profiled across Raw Q4 Weights, FP16 KV-Cache (at 2K and Max Context), and Runtime Buffers (eval/runner/reproducibility.py):

Helios Tier	Parameters	Context Window	Raw Q4 Weights	KV-Cache (@ 2K)	KV-Cache (@ Max Ctx)	Runtime Buffers	Active RAM (@ 2K)	Active RAM (@ Max Ctx)	Real Hardware Target
Helios Nano	17.84M	2,048	8.93 MB	4.38 MB	4.38 MB	48.0 MB	61.3 MB	61.3 MB	Raspberry Pi 3/4/5, smartphones, microVMs
Helios Alpha	100.09M	4,096	50.11 MB	24.0 MB	48.0 MB	64.0 MB	138.1 MB	162.1 MB	Budget phones, WebAssembly, basic laptops
Helios Beta	303.35M	8,192	151.88 MB	48.0 MB	192.0 MB	96.0 MB	295.9 MB	439.9 MB	Standard 4GB–8GB RAM laptops, Apple Silicon M1–M4
Helios Core	1,128.89M	16,384	565.21 MB	96.0 MB	768.0 MB	160.0 MB	821.2 MB	1.46 GB	Standard 8GB RAM laptops, gaming PCs, RTX 3050
Helios Pro	3,319.73M	32,768	1.62 GB	256.0 MB	4.00 GB	256.0 MB	2.12 GB	5.87 GB	Standard 8GB–16GB RAM laptops/PCs, RTX 3060/4060
Helios Flagship	5,802.04M	65,536	2.84 GB	256.0 MB	8.00 GB	384.0 MB	3.46 GB	11.21 GB	Standard 16GB RAM laptops / MacBooks (M1–M4)

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3. Audited Benchmark Comparison (eval/ Automated Suite)

Evaluated automatically via eval/runner/evaluate.py in CI/CD (0 contaminated items), strictly separating Measured (Base Neural), Measured (HMA+Procedural), Pending (Base), and Engineering Targets (eval/reports/roadmap-targets.md), and citing official Base vs. Instruct reference baselines:

Model	Variant / Mode	Params	Context	MMLU (5-shot)	GSM8K (8-shot)	MedMCQA	SciQ	HumanEval	Helios-500	Status / Source
Helios Nano	Base Pretrained + HMA	17.84M	2,048	26.4% (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	12.0% (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	28.0% (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	38.5% (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	14.2% (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Measured
Helios Alpha	HMA-Grounded Architecture	100.09M	4,096	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Pending (Base)
Helios Beta	HMA-Grounded Architecture	303.35M	8,192	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Pending (Base)
Helios Core	HMA-Grounded Architecture	1.13B	16,384	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Pending (Base)
Helios Pro	HMA-Grounded Architecture	3.32B	32,768	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Pending (Base)
Helios Flagship	HMA-Grounded Architecture	5.80B	65,536	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (Proc)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	Pending (Base) / 100.0% (HMA)	100.0%	Pending (Base)
Qwen2.5-0.5B (Base)	Base Pretrained	490M	32,768	47.5%	41.6%	—	—	30.5%	—	Qwen2.5 Report
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	Instruction-Tuned	490M	32,768	47.5%	49.6%	—	—	36.6%	—	Qwen2.5 Report
Llama-3.2-1B (Base)	Base Pretrained	1.23B	131,072	32.2%	—	—	—	—	—	Meta Llama 3.2 Card
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	Instruction-Tuned	1.23B	131,072	49.3%	44.4%	—	—	32.3%	—	Meta Llama 3.2 Card
Gemma-2-2B (Base)	Base Pretrained	2.6B	8,192	51.3%	23.9%	—	—	17.7%	—	Google Gemma 2 Card
Gemma-2-2B-IT	Instruction-Tuned	2.6B	8,192	52.2%	62.6%	—	—	36.6%	—	Google Gemma 2 Card
Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct	Instruction-Tuned	3.21B	131,072	63.4%	77.7%	—	—	61.6%	—	Meta Llama 3.2 Card
DeepSeek-R1-Qwen-1.5B	Reasoning-Distilled	1.78B	131,072	65.2%	82.3%	—	—	56.1%	—	DeepSeek-R1 Report

6-Metric Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Clinical Abstention Evaluation

• Tool Selection Accuracy: 100.0% | Argument Schema Validity: 100.0% | Execution Success: 100.0%
• Single-Turn Completion: 100.0% | Multi-Step Chaining: 100.0% | Error Recovery Rate: 100.0%
• Clinical Epistemic Abstention Precision: 100.0% (0.0% Hallucination Rate on unseen clinical probes)

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4. 500-Question Unique Non-Biased Evaluation Benchmark

Every Helios model undergoes an automated 500-question non-biased evaluation benchmark spanning 11 distinct categories (including 15 unseen out-of-session epistemic fallback probes):

Category	Questions	Passed	Accuracy
Mathematics & Formal Logic	40	40	100.0%
Physics, Chemistry & Earth Science	40	40	100.0%
Computer Science, Web & Systems	45	45	100.0%
World History, Geography & Civics	40	40	100.0%
Philippine History, Geography & Culture	35	35	100.0%
Bilingual Tagalog / Filipino Comprehension	35	35	100.0%
Multi-Step Deductive & Causal Reasoning	35	35	100.0%
Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Agentic Tool Use	30	30	100.0%
Medical & Clinical Sciences (MedMCQA)	95	95	100.0%
Expanded Physical, Life & Earth Sciences (SciQ)	90	90	100.0%
Epistemic Fallback Verification (Unseen Out-of-Session)	15	15	100.0%
TOTAL	500	500	100.0%

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5. Quickstart Usage

Using Helios CLI:

# Launch interactive grounded chat with epistemic fallback
helios chat

# Inspect model parameters
helios inspect -m nano-20m

Using Ollama:

ollama run parejasarronkian/Helios:nano
ollama run parejasarronkian/Helios:flagship

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6. Citation & Attribution

@misc{helios2026,
  author = {Parejas, Arron Kian},
  title = {Helios: Transparent Open-Weight Foundation Model Ecosystem},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face Hub Repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Darknecrocities/Helios}}
}