---
license: mit
tags:
- moe
- deepseek
- nvidia-h200
- fineweb-edu
- pytorch
- text-generation
- nano-lm
- edge-ai
- rope
language:
- en
pipeline_tag: text-generation
datasets:
- HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu
---

# Eve-2-MoE-272M

A custom 272M-parameter Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on **8× NVIDIA H200** GPUs. Implements a DeepSeek-V3 style architecture with a shared expert, top-k routed experts, RoPE positional encoding, and SwiGLU activations.

Eve-2 is a **base model for specialized fine-tuning** — not a chatbot. Fine-tune it in ~20 minutes on consumer hardware for narrow tasks like PII redaction, text classification, semantic compression cleanup, or lightweight routing in multi-agent pipelines. Runs on a Raspberry Pi.

**Author:** [Anthony Maio](https://making-minds.ai) / Making Minds AI (Independent)
https://www.github.com/anthony-maio
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-maio

## Architecture

| | |
|---|---|
| **Total Parameters** | 272M |
| **Type** | Mixture of Experts (MoE) |
| **Routed Experts** | 8 |
| **Shared Experts** | 1 (always active) |
| **Active Params/Token** | ~80M (top-2 routing) |
| **Routing** | Top-2 gate with load-balancing aux loss |
| **Layers** | 12 transformer blocks |
| **Hidden Dim** | 512 |
| **Attention Heads** | 8 (64-dim each) |
| **Expert FFN Dim** | 1408 (SwiGLU) |
| **Position Encoding** | Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) |
| **Context Length** | 2048 tokens |
| **Vocab** | 50,304 (GPT-2 tokenizer, padded) |
| **Norm** | RMSNorm |
| **Precision** | BFloat16 (native) |
| **Weight Tying** | Embeddings tied with LM head |

### Design Rationale

MoE at this scale is a deliberate choice. With 8 experts but only 2 active per token, inference cost is roughly equivalent to a 80M dense model while the total parameter budget gives each expert room to specialize. The shared expert handles common patterns across all tokens; the routed experts develop narrow competencies during fine-tuning.

This makes Eve-2 a natural base for **nano-LM swarms** — fine-tune copies for specific tasks, deploy at the edge, coordinate through lightweight protocols.

## Training

| | |
|---|---|
| **Hardware** | 8× NVIDIA H200 (141 GB VRAM each) |
| **Throughput** | ~1.26M tokens/sec |
| **Steps** | 40,000 |
| **Tokens** | ~10.5B |
| **Wall Time** | ~2.5 hours |
| **Data** | [FineWeb-Edu](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu) (Sample-10BT) |
| **Optimizer** | AdamW (β₁=0.9, β₂=0.95, weight decay 0.1) |
| **Schedule** | Cosine decay with 200-step linear warmup |
| **Peak LR** | 5e-4 → decays to 5e-5 |
| **Batch** | 128 × 2048 tokens (16/GPU × 8 GPUs) |
| **Gradient Clipping** | 1.0 |
| **Distributed** | PyTorch DDP |

### Convergence

| Step | Tokens Seen | Train Loss | Val Loss (WikiText-2) |
|------|------------|-----------|----------------------|
| 500 | 131M | 4.82 | 6.35 |
| 1,000 | 262M | 4.09 | 4.84 |
| 1,500 | 393M | 3.95 | 4.36 |
| 5,000 | 1.3B | 3.47 | 3.89 |
| 13,000 | 3.4B | 3.05 | 3.61 |
| 25,000 | 6.6B | 2.90 | 3.51 |
| 37,000 | 9.7B | 2.80 | 3.42 |
| 40,000 | 10.5B | 2.78 | **3.40** |

**Final Perplexity (WikiText-2): ~30**

Training logs: [Weights & Biases](https://wandb.ai/anthony-maio-making-minds/Eve-2-MoE)

## Quick Start

This is a custom architecture — you need the model class to load it. Download `modeling_eve.py` from this repo.

```python
import torch
import tiktoken
from modeling_eve import ModelConfig, DeepSeekMoE
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Load
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
config = ModelConfig()
model = DeepSeekMoE(config)

weights = hf_hub_download(repo_id="anthonym21/Eve-2-MoE-272M", filename="pytorch_model.bin")
model.load_state_dict(torch.load(weights, map_location=device))
model.to(device).eval()

# Generate
enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")
tokens = torch.tensor(enc.encode("The future of artificial intelligence is"),
                       dtype=torch.long, device=device).unsqueeze(0)

output = model.generate(tokens, max_new_tokens=100, temperature=0.8, top_k=50)
print(enc.decode(output[0].tolist()))
```

### CPU / Raspberry Pi

The model runs on CPU at ~272M parameters. Inference is slower but functional — memory footprint is under 1 GB.

```python
device = "cpu"
# Everything else stays the same
```

## Intended Use

Eve-2 is a **fine-tuning base**, not a finished product. Out of the box it produces coherent English but has no instruction-following capability. The workflow:

1. Take this base model
2. Fine-tune on a narrow task (~20 min on consumer GPU)
3. Deploy at the edge as part of a specialized nano-LM swarm

**Target applications:** Data cleaning, PII redaction, text classification, semantic compression repair, lightweight routing/triage in multi-agent pipelines.

## Limitations

This is a 272M model. It will not write essays, follow complex instructions, or compete with larger models on general benchmarks. That's by design — it's a small, fast, cheap-to-tune specialist base.

The train/val gap of ~0.62 at convergence suggests the model could benefit from additional data diversity beyond FineWeb-Edu for downstream generalization.

## Files

```
├── pytorch_model.bin     # Model weights
├── config.json           # Architecture config
├── modeling_eve.py       # Model class definitions (required to load)
├── generate.py           # Standalone inference script
├── train.py              # DDP training script
└── requirements.txt      # Dependencies
```

## Citation

```bibtex
@misc{anthony_maio_2026_eve2,
	author       = { Anthony Maio },
	title        = { Eve-2-MoE-272M (Revision ee90542) },
	year         = 2026,
	url          = { https://huggingface.co/anthonym21/Eve-2-MoE-272M },
	doi          = { 10.57967/hf/7731 },
	publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}
```

## License

MIT — free for research and commercial use.