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🚀 Introducing Asterisk — Hybrid ASPP-Attention Architecture! 🌟
NoesisLab/Asterisk
We’re excited to launch Asterisk, a cutting-edge language model by NoesisLab on Hugging Face! 🎉 Built on top of SmolLM2-135M-Instruct, Asterisk integrates Adjacency-Structured Parallel Propagation (ASPP) with standard attention to bring structured reasoning power into language modeling.
✨ Key Highlights:
🔹 Hybrid Architecture – Fuses graph-centric ASPP local reasoning with global attention for richer representations.
🔹 Enhanced Reasoning – ASPP enables iterative local state evolution that complements traditional transformer layers.
🔹 Efficient Design – ~171M parameters with smart supervised fine-tuning (Capybara dataset).
🔹 Flexible & Open – Apache-2.0 licensed and ready to integrate via Hugging Face 🤗 Transformers.
📈 Asterisk showcases how hybrid operators — inspired by theoretical frameworks like the Asterisk Operator — can bring structured reasoning into modern LMs in a scalable way.
👉 Try it out, explore the code, and start building: huggingface.co/NoesisLab/Asterisk
