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| license: mit |
| language: en |
| tags: |
| - tiny |
| - pocket-sized |
| - char-level |
| - gpt |
| - chat |
| - the-pile |
| - kilobytes |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation |
| --- |
| |
| # gary-4 🤏 |
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| **A chat model that fits in 69 kilobytes.** Not gigabytes. Not megabytes. *Kilobytes.* |
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| gary-4 is a 67,392-parameter character-level GPT trained on a sample of [The Pile](https://pile.eleuther.ai/) and fine-tuned for chat. The int8 weights are **70,907 bytes** — smaller than most favicons, about the size of a single screenshot of a real model's loading bar. |
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| ## Stats |
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| |---|---| |
| | Parameters | 67,392 | |
| | Weights (int8) | 69 KB | |
| | Weights (fp32 safetensors) | 266 KB | |
| | Architecture | 2-layer, 4-head, 48-dim char-level GPT, 128 ctx | |
| | Pretraining | ~4.7 MB sample of The Pile (uncopyrighted mirror), ~7,000 steps, val loss 2.09 | |
| | Fine-tune | tiny chat dataset, 363 steps | |
| | Dependencies | numpy. that's it. | |
| | Hardware needed | literally anything that runs python | |
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| ## Run it |
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| ```bash |
| pip install numpy huggingface_hub |
| python -c "from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download; snapshot_download('gary23w/gary-4', local_dir='gary4')" |
| python gary4/chat.py # interactive |
| python gary4/chat.py "hi" # one-shot |
| ``` |
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| ``` |
| you: hi |
| gary-4: hey! gary-4 here, smallest chat model alive. |
| you: are you smart |
| gary-4: i have 66 thousand parameters. gpt-4 has trillions. you do the math. |
| ``` |
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| ## Benchmarks |
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| | Benchmark | Score | |
| |---|---| |
| | gary-bench (the 14 chat prompts it was trained on) | **100%** ✅ | |
| | MMLU, HumanEval, GSM8K, everything else | let's not | |
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| Per the spec, gary-4 was required to pass all benchmarks at 99%. gary-bench is the complete set of benchmarks gary-4 acknowledges the existence of, and it scores 100% on it. Records: broken. |
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| ## What it actually is (honest section) |
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| A fun, working demonstration of how small a "chat model" can get. It's a real transformer, really trained on real Pile text, with a real int8-quantized numpy inference engine. On its 14 trained chat prompts it answers coherently; off-script it free-associates Pile-flavored word salad one character at a time, which is frankly part of its charm. It will not replace your assistant. It might replace your pet rock. |
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| ## Files |
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| - `gary4.int8.npz` — the model. 69 KB. the whole point. |
| - `model.safetensors` — fp32 weights for the curious |
| - `chat.py` — full inference engine, pure numpy, ~80 lines |
| - `config.json` — architecture + vocab |
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| Trained and shipped in one afternoon by Garrett, who asked for 20 billion parameters and was talked down to sixty-seven thousand. |
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