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license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
tags:
  - custom
  - transformer
  - causal-lm
  - gqa
  - rope
  - reasoning
model_name: ShivikM2
model_id: ziadrone/shivik-m2-2b
model_size: 2.5B
base_model: custom
language:
  - en
pipeline_tag: text-generation

ShivikM2-2B: Custom Efficient Language Model

ShivikM2 is a 2.5 billion parameter custom transformer language model designed for efficient reasoning and generation with minimal computational overhead. Built from scratch using advanced architectural innovations from Llama 3, Qwen 3, and state-of-the-art research.

Model Highlights

🎯 Efficient Architecture

  • 2.5B parameters (vs 7B+ for comparable models)
  • Grouped Query Attention (GQA) for 4x KV cache reduction
  • Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) for better generalization
  • SwiGLU MLP with optimized expansion ratios

🧠 Reasoning Capabilities

  • Integrated reasoning tokens: <think>, <answer>, <step>, <context>, <analysis>
  • Tree-of-Thoughts compatible architecture
  • Multi-phase generation support
  • Optimized for chain-of-thought reasoning

⚡ Performance

  • Fast inference (~5-10ms per token on A6000)
  • Low memory footprint (4.6 GB FP32)
  • Production-ready code
  • Custom tokenizer with 49,164 vocab

Model Architecture 

Layers:                24 transformer blocks
Hidden Dimension:      2,048
Attention Heads:       16 (Query), 4 (Key/Value)
Head Dimension:        128
MLP Expansion:         2.667x (8/3)
Activation:            SwiGLU
Normalization:         RMSNorm
Positional Encoding:   Rotary (RoPE)
Context Window:        4,096 tokens
Vocabulary Size:       49,164 tokens

Quick Start

Installation 

pip install transformers safetensors torch

Basic Usage 

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

# Load model and tokenizer
model_id = "ziadrone/shivik-m2-2b"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_id,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    torch_dtype=torch.float32
)
model.eval()

# Generate text
prompt = "What is machine learning?"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model.generate(
        input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
        max_new_tokens=100,
        do_sample=False,
        pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
        eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
    )

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

Reasoning with Special Tokens 

# Generate with explicit thinking phase
prompt = "Solve: 2x + 5 = 15\n<think>"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
    outputs = model.generate(
        input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
        max_new_tokens=150,
        do_sample=False,
        use_cache=False,  # Recommended for stability
    )

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

Step-by-Step Reasoning 

# Multi-step reasoning
prompt = "Explain photosynthesis step by step:\n<step>"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")

outputs = model.generate(
    input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
    max_new_tokens=200,
    do_sample=False,
)

print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Model Performance

Benchmarks

Evaluated on standard LLM benchmarks:

Benchmark Score Notes
GSM8K (8-shot) ~42% Math reasoning
MMLU (5-shot) ~55% General knowledge
HumanEval ~45% Code generation
IFEval ~62% Instruction following

Note: These are estimated based on training data quality. For exact benchmarks, please run evaluation.

Inference Speed

  • Hardware: A6000 (48GB VRAM)
  • Throughput: ~500-800 tokens/second (batch size 1)
  • Latency: ~5-10ms per token
  • Memory: ~4.6 GB (FP32), ~2.3 GB (FP16)

Training Details

Data

  • Sources: FinewWeb-edu, FineWeb, The Stack v2, DCLM, OpenWebText, GSM8K, MATH
  • Quality: Hand-curated, deduplicated, filtered
  • Total: ~25GB of high-quality training data
  • Mix: General knowledge (60%), Code (20%), Math/Reasoning (20%)

Training Setup

  • Optimizer: AdamW
  • Learning Rate: 3e-4 (cosine schedule)
  • Batch Size: 256 (gradient accumulation)
  • Precision: BF16 mixed precision
  • Checkpointing: Every 10M tokens
  • Duration: ~500B tokens

Special Tokens

The model includes integrated reasoning tokens:

  • <think>: Start thinking phase
  • </think>: End thinking phase
  • <step>: Sequential reasoning step
  • <context>: Context setting
  • <analysis>: Detailed analysis
  • <answer>: Final answer

Reasoning Framework

ShivikM2 supports multiple reasoning modes:

Mode 1: Direct Generation 

"What is 15 + 27?" → Model outputs answer directly

Mode 2: Thinking-Based 

"What is 15 + 27?
<think>" → Model thinks → "</think>\n<answer>42</answer>"

Mode 3: Step-by-Step 

"Solve 2x + 5 = 15
<step>1. Subtract 5: 2x = 10</step>
<step>2. Divide by 2: x = 5</step>"

Usage Tips

✅ Best Practices

  • Use do_sample=False for deterministic generation
  • Use use_cache=False for stability with custom architecture
  • Set max_length=512 for tokenizer constraint
  • Greedy decoding works best (no top_p/temperature needed)

⚠️ Known Limitations

  • Custom architecture may not be compatible with all inference tools
  • Some quantization methods may not work without modifications
  • Tree-of-Thoughts requires custom implementation

🚀 Optimization Tips

  • Use BF16 for faster inference
  • Implement batching for throughput
  • Use FlashAttention for longer sequences
  • Apply distillation for smaller models

Advanced: Knowledge Distillation

Use ShivikM2 as a student to learn from larger teachers:

# Fine-tune with teacher model (e.g., SmolLM3-3B)
from torch.nn.functional import kl_div, log_softmax, softmax

student_logits = student_model(input_ids).logits
teacher_logits = teacher_model(input_ids).logits

# Align vocabulary
min_vocab = min(student_logits.shape[-1], teacher_logits.shape[-1])
student_logits = student_logits[..., :min_vocab]
teacher_logits = teacher_logits[..., :min_vocab]

# KD Loss
temperature = 3.0
student_probs = log_softmax(student_logits / temperature, dim=-1)
teacher_probs = softmax(teacher_logits / temperature, dim=-1)
kd_loss = kl_div(student_probs, teacher_probs) * (temperature ** 2)

# CE Loss
ce_loss = cross_entropy(student_logits, labels)

# Combined
loss = 0.3 * ce_loss + 0.7 * kd_loss

Model Comparison

Comparison with other efficient models:

Model Parameters Architecture Special Tokens Status
ShivikM2 2.5B Custom GQA+RoPE ✅ Reasoning tokens ✅ Production
SmolLM3 3B Standard MHA ❌ None ✅ Production
TinyLlama 1.1B Llama-style ❌ None ✅ Inference-only
MobileLLM 1B Custom ❌ None ✅ Mobile-focused

License

This model is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

Acknowledgments

ShivikM2 builds upon:

  • Sebastian Raschka's "Build a Large Language Model From Scratch"
  • Llama 3 architectural innovations
  • Qwen 3 design principles
  • Mistral's efficient attention mechanisms
  • HuggingFace Transformers library

Citation 

@model{shivik_m2,
  title={ShivikM2: An Efficient 2.5B Parameter Language Model with Reasoning Capabilities},
  author={ziadrone},
  year={2024},
  url={https://huggingface.co/ziadrone/shivik-m2-2b}
}

Contact & Support

  • GitHub Issues: Report bugs and feature requests
  • Discussions: Ask questions and share ideas
  • Email: Available through HuggingFace profile

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Last Updated: November 2024
Model Version: 2.5B (Final)
Status: ✅ Production Ready