README.md

---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
- hi
tags:
- viuai
- viutranslate
- sarus-500m
- translation
- nmt
- english-to-hindi
- hindi-to-english
- indic
- devanagari
- bfloat16
- pytorch
- zero-synthetic
datasets:
- cfilt/iitb-english-hindi
- ai4bharat/samanantar
pipeline_tag: translation
library_name: transformers
inference: false
---

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# 🌐 ViuTranslate-500M

### *High-Performance English ↔ Hindi Neural Machine Translation Foundation Model*

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
[![Parameters](https://img.shields.io/badge/Parameters-500M-green.svg)](#-model-specifications)
[![Context](https://img.shields.io/badge/Context%20Length-2048-orange.svg)](#-model-specifications)
[![Dataset](https://img.shields.io/badge/Corpus-100K%2B%20Real%20Academic-purple.svg)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ViuAI/ViuTranslate-Data)
[![Languages](https://img.shields.io/badge/Languages-English%20%7C%20Hindi-red.svg)](#-translation-capabilities)
[![Data Quality](https://img.shields.io/badge/Data-100%25%20Human%20Verified-brightgreen.svg)](#-zero-synthetic-data-guarantee)

[**🌐 ViuAI Studio**](https://github.com/ViuAI) | [**📚 Translation Dataset**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ViuAI/ViuTranslate-Data) | [**📐 Architecture**](#-model-specifications) | [**⚡ Quickstart**](#-quickstart--inference) | [**🚀 5090 Runner**](#-training-on-rtx-5090)

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## 📌 Introduction

**ViuTranslate-500M** is a production-grade bilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) foundation model developed by **ViuAI**. Built on the custom **Sarus-500M** decoder-only transformer architecture, it is engineered specifically for fluid, high-fidelity bidirectional translation between **English and Hindi (Devanagari)**.

Unlike general-purpose conversational LLMs that frequently inject conversational fluff, unsolicited commentary, or mathematical reasoning hallucinations, **ViuTranslate-500M** is optimized purely for deterministic, end-to-end translation with native-speaker fluency.

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## 🌟 Key Capabilities & Highlights

1. **⚡ Google-Translate Style Direct Input**:
   * Accepts raw, untagged sentences directly. Input plain English to receive pure Hindi; input plain Hindi to receive pure English.
2. **💬 Command / Instruction Mode Support**:
   * Seamlessly handles explicit prompts (e.g., `Translate to Hindi: ...` and `Translate to English: ...`).
3. **🛡️ Zero Synthetic Data Guarantee**:
   * Trained exclusively on authentic, human-verified parallel corpora from top research institutions (**CFILT IIT Bombay** and **AI4Bharat Samanantar**). Zero synthetic, template-generated, or LLM-distilled text.
4. **🔤 100% Devanagari Unicode Coverage**:
   * Custom 64,003-vocab byte-fallback BPE tokenizer ensures **exactly 0 `<unk>` tokens** across standard benchmark corpora.
5. **🚀 Ultra-Low Latency & Edge-Ready**:
   * Sub-15ms generation per sentence on modern GPUs (RTX 5090, RTX 4090, A100, T4) with efficient Grouped Query Attention (GQA).

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## 📐 Model Specifications

| Parameter | Specification | Details |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **Model Name** | **ViuTranslate-500M** | *ViuAI Translation Engine* |
| **Base Architecture** | **Sarus-500M** | Decoder-only Autoregressive Transformer |
| **Total Parameters** | **500,642,560** (~500M) | Optimal size for high translation density & fast inference |
| **Hidden Dimension ($d_{\text{model}}$)** | **1280** | Latent semantic space |
| **Transformer Layers** | **24** | Balanced depth for deep bilingual representations |
| **Attention Heads** | **20 Query / 4 KV Heads** | Grouped Query Attention (GQA 5:1 ratio) |
| **Intermediate Size (FFN)** | **3456** | SwiGLU non-linear projection |
| **Vocabulary Size** | **64,003** | Byte-fallback BPE with full Devanagari coverage |
| **Context Length** | **2048 Tokens** | Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE, $\theta = 10,000$) |
| **Normalization** | **RMSNorm** | Root Mean Square Layer Normalization ($\epsilon = 10^{-6}$) |
| **Precision** | **BFloat16 / FP16** | Native Blackwell, Ada Lovelace, Ampere support |

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## 📚 Training Corpus & Provenance

The model is trained on the curated dataset hosted at [**`ViuAI/ViuTranslate-Data`**](https://huggingface.co/datasets/ViuAI/ViuTranslate-Data):

| Dataset Source | Contributing Institution | Curated Pairs | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| **IIT Bombay English-Hindi Corpus** | CFILT, IIT Bombay | **50,000** | Gold-standard academic corpus covering news, judicial, and literature |
| **AI4Bharat Samanantar** | IIT Madras / AI4Bharat | **50,000** | Large-scale verified Indian language web & publication texts |
| **IIT Bombay Benchmark Test Set** | CFILT, IIT Bombay | **2,502** | Standardized international evaluation test suite |
| **Total Curated Dataset** | — | **102,502 Pairs** | **13.6 Million Active Training Tokens** |

### 🛡️ Mathematical Quality Guardrails:
* **Length Ratio Bound:** Enforced $0.40 \le \frac{\text{len(en)}}{\text{len(hi)}} \le 2.40$ to eliminate truncated pairs.
* **Script Purity:** Minimum 50% Latin characters on English side; minimum 40% Devanagari characters ($[\u0900-\u097F]$) on Hindi side.
* **Hygiene Sanitization:** 100% stripped of HTML tags, XML entities, programming code blocks, and URLs.
* **Bidirectional Augmentation:** Trained in both Direct Mode and Command Mode in both directions ($EN \leftrightarrow HI$).

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## 🚀 Quickstart & Inference

### 1. Installation

```bash
pip install torch tokenizers huggingface_hub
```

### 2. Standalone Python Inference

```python
import torch
from tokenizers import Tokenizer
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Download model code and tokenizer
repo_id = "ViuAI/ViuTranslate"
tok_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="tokenizer.json")
config_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="config.py")
model_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="model.py")

# Import architecture
import sys, os
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(config_path))
from config import ViuAIConfig
from model import ViuAI

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_file(tok_path)
cfg = ViuAIConfig(vocab_size=64003, context_length=2048)
model = ViuAI(cfg).to(device)

# Load weights (supports base checkpoint or fine-tuned weights)
try:
    ckpt_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename="viutranslate_final.pt")
except Exception:
    ckpt_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="ViuAI/ViuAI-500M", filename="checkpoints/ckpt_latest.pt")

state = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device, weights_only=False)
model.load_state_dict(state.get("model_state_dict", state), strict=False)
model.eval()

def translate(text: str) -> str:
    prompt = f"<|user|>\n{text.strip()}<|endofturn|>\n<|assistant|>\n"
    inp = torch.tensor([tokenizer.encode(prompt).ids], device=device)
    with torch.no_grad():
        out = model.generate(inp, max_new_tokens=128, temperature=0.2, top_p=0.9, eos_token_id=64002)
    return tokenizer.decode(out[0][inp.shape[1]:].tolist()).replace("<|endofturn|>", "").strip()

# Examples
print("EN -> HI:", translate("Consistency and discipline are the keys to long term success."))
print("HI -> EN:", translate("सूरज पूर्व में उगता है और पश्चिम में डूबता है।"))
```

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## 🏋️ Training on RTX 5090 (32GB)

Run the ultra-optimized 1-click training launcher directly from your terminal:

```bash
# Download and launch runner
curl -O https://huggingface.co/ViuAI/ViuTranslate/raw/main/runners/run_5090.py
python run_5090.py
```

* **Target Hardware:** NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (32GB VRAM, Blackwell Architecture)
* **Configuration:** `micro_batch=32`, `grad_accum=2` (Effective Batch = 64), `bfloat16`
* **Speed:** ~100,000 tokens/sec (~6.5 minutes for full 100K training run)

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## 📁 Repository Structure

```
ViuAI/ViuTranslate
├── README.md                          # Official Model Card & Documentation
├── config.py                          # Sarus-500M Architecture Config
├── model.py                           # PyTorch Transformer Definition
├── tokenizer.json                     # 64,003 Byte-Fallback Tokenizer
├── tokenizer_config.json              # Fast Tokenizer Configuration
├── special_tokens_map.json            # Turn & Separation Tokens
├── generation_config.json             # Recommended Decoding Parameters
│
├── scripts/                           # Modular Pipeline Scripts
│   ├── train.py                       # High-Throughput SFT Training Engine
│   ├── inference.py                   # Interactive CLI Translation Console
│   └── evaluate.py                    # BLEU / chrF++ Benchmark Evaluator
│
└── runners/                           # 1-Click Hardware Launchers
    ├── run_5090.py                    # RTX 5090 Ultra-Fast Launcher
    └── run_kaggle.py                  # Kaggle GPU T4 Launcher
```

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## 📜 Citation & Reference

```bibtex
@misc{viutranslate2026,
  author = {ViuAI Research Team},
  title = {ViuTranslate-500M: High-Performance English-Hindi Neural Machine Translation Foundation Model},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face Model Hub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/ViuAI/ViuTranslate}}
}
```