---
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- language-model
- transformer
- pytorch
- from-scratch
- tiny-stories
datasets:
- TinyStories
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# Sage 1B

A **custom 1.286 billion parameter** language model built entirely from scratch — no base models, no fine-tuning, no dependencies on existing LLM frameworks.

## Architecture

| Parameter | Value |
|-----------|-------|
| Parameters | 1,286,155,776 |
| Layers | 30 |
| Hidden Size | 1536 |
| Attention Heads | 12 |
| Head Dimension | 128 |
| Intermediate Size | 6144 |
| Vocabulary | 50,000 (BPE) |
| Max Sequence Length | 128 tokens |
| Activation | SwiGLU |
| Position Encoding | Rotary (RoPE) |
| Normalization | RMSNorm |
| Precision | FP16 / FP32 |

## Key Features

- **Built from scratch** — Custom PyTorch implementation. Not a derivative of any existing model.
- **BPE Tokenizer** — Trained a 50,000-token BPE tokenizer on the TinyStories dataset.
- **Modern Architecture** — SwiGLU activations, Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE), RMSNorm.
- **Open Source** — MIT license. Weights, training code, and inference code are all available.
- **GGUF Format** — Available for use with llama.cpp, Ollama, and other GGUF-compatible runners.

## Usage

### With Hugging Face Hub
```python
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import torch, json
from tokenizers import Tokenizer

config_path = hf_hub_download('itriedcoding/Sage-1B', 'config.json')
tokenizer_path = hf_hub_download('itriedcoding/Sage-1B', 'tokenizer.json')
weights_path = hf_hub_download('itriedcoding/Sage-1B', 'pytorch_model_state.bin')

cfg = json.load(open(config_path))
tok = Tokenizer.from_file(tokenizer_path)
```

### With GGUF (llama.cpp)
```bash
wget https://huggingface.co/itriedcoding/Sage-1B/resolve/main/sage-1b-f16.gguf
./main -m sage-1b-f16.gguf -p "Once upon a time" -n 50
```

### Web Interface
Chat with the model at: https://sage-ai.vercel.app/chat

### API
```bash
curl -X POST https://sage-ai.vercel.app/api/v1/chat \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"message": "Tell me a story"}'
```

## Training

The model was trained on the **TinyStories** dataset — a synthetic dataset of short stories designed for training compact language models. Training was performed on CPU with limited resources, making this a proof-of-concept for building LLMs from scratch without GPU access.

## Files

| File | Size | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| `pytorch_model_state.bin` | 2.4 GB | FP16 model weights |
| `sage-1b-f16.gguf` | 2.4 GB | GGUF format for llama.cpp |
| `config.json` | 1 KB | Model hyperparameters |
| `tokenizer.json` | 12 MB | BPE tokenizer (50K vocab) |
| `modeling_sage_1b.py` | 6 KB | Model architecture code |

## License

MIT