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| <h1 align="center">MikaLabs — Open Models</h1> |
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| <b>Open teaching-assistant models for Maths and the Sciences.</b><br> |
| Home of the <b>Vector-1</b> family. |
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| 🌐 <a href="https://mikalabs.org">mikalabs.org</a> |
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| ## About |
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| MikaLabs is a STEM education company. This Hugging Face organization is where we publish our **open** work: the **Vector-1** model family — teaching-assistant models built to help educators create real classroom materials in Maths and the Sciences, and small enough to run locally and offline. |
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| ## The Vector-1 Model Family |
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| Each model identifies itself as **Vector**, a teaching assistant by MikaLabs. |
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| | **Vector-L1-4B** | Light language model | 4B | ✅ **Released** | |
| | **Vector-1-14B** | Language model | 14B | 🏋️ In training | |
| | **Vector-R1** | Reasoning model | — | 🔜 Coming soon | |
| | **Vector-V1** | Vision model | — | 🔜 Coming soon | |
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| The naming follows a simple scheme: **L** for Light (small, consumer-hardware models), **R** for Reasoning, **V** for Vision, and the version number that follows. |
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| ## Vector-L1-4B — our first release |
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| **Vector-L1-4B** is the first and smallest member of the family — a 4B-parameter open language model designed to run on modest consumer hardware so that schools and individual teachers can use it locally and offline. |
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| It is built as a teaching-assistant model for educators across K–12 / secondary **Maths, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics**, and it punches well above its size at the things teachers actually need: |
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| - **Differentiated worksheets** — multi-tier (support / core / extension) question sets with genuine difficulty progression. |
| - **Professional mark schemes** — separating method marks (M) from answer marks (A), the way real exam marking works. |
| - **Misconception guides** — the specific errors students make on a topic, and how to address them. |
| - **Structured lesson plans** — objectives, starters, main activities, and plenaries. |
| - **Mixed-format questions** — short answer, true/false with justification, fill-in-the-blank, calculation, and explain-your-reasoning, without defaulting to multiple choice. |
| - **Strong instruction-following** — handling complex, multi-part requests (e.g. "three tiers, a mark scheme, misconceptions, no multiple choice, output as markdown"). |
| - **Accurate level calibration** and clean, ready-to-use output with no conversational filler. |
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| **License:** Apache 2.0 · **Language:** English · **Domain:** K–12 / secondary Maths and the Sciences |
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| > Vector-L1-4B is a teaching aid, not a substitute for a qualified teacher's judgement. It is not intended for high-stakes or unsupervised assessment without human review, and it is specialised — general chat, coding, and non-STEM subjects are out of scope. |
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| ## About MikaLabs |
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| To learn more about our wider STEM education work, visit [mikalabs.org](https://mikalabs.org). |
