Open teaching-assistant models for Maths and the Sciences.
Home of the Vector-1 family.
๐ mikalabs.org
--- ## About MikaLabs is a STEM education company. This Hugging Face organization is where we publish our **open** work: the **Vector-1** model family โ teaching-assistant models built to help educators create real classroom materials in Maths and the Sciences, and small enough to run locally and offline. --- ## The Vector-1 Model Family Each model identifies itself as **Vector**, a teaching assistant by MikaLabs. | Model | Type | Size | Status | |---|---|---|---| | **Vector-L1-4B** | Light language model | 4B | โ **Released** | | **Vector-1-14B** | Language model | 14B | ๐๏ธ In training | | **Vector-R1** | Reasoning model | โ | ๐ Coming soon | | **Vector-V1** | Vision model | โ | ๐ Coming soon | 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. --- ## Vector-L1-4B โ our first release **Vector-L1-4B** is the first and smallest member of the family โ 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. It is built as a teaching-assistant model for educators across Kโ12 / secondary **Maths, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics**, and it punches well above its size at the things teachers actually need: - **Differentiated worksheets** โ multi-tier (support / core / extension) question sets with genuine difficulty progression. - **Professional mark schemes** โ separating method marks (M) from answer marks (A), the way real exam marking works. - **Misconception guides** โ the specific errors students make on a topic, and how to address them. - **Structured lesson plans** โ objectives, starters, main activities, and plenaries. - **Mixed-format questions** โ short answer, true/false with justification, fill-in-the-blank, calculation, and explain-your-reasoning, without defaulting to multiple choice. - **Strong instruction-following** โ 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. **License:** Apache 2.0 ยท **Language:** English ยท **Domain:** Kโ12 / secondary Maths and the Sciences > 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 โ general chat, coding, and non-STEM subjects are out of scope. --- ## About MikaLabs To learn more about our wider STEM education work, visit [mikalabs.org](https://mikalabs.org).