littlelearner / littlelearner-0.6b-base

littlelearner-0.6b-base

0.617B K-5-bounded base model (pretraining only). Smallest scale point of the family.

Part of the LittleLearner scale-up study ( pedagogically-controlled knowledge exposure ): Qwen3 dense LMs trained on a corpus filtered to U.S. K-5 material ( bounded ) vs an unfiltered FineWeb-Edu corpus ( unbounded ), to measure what an interpretable knowledge boundary costs and grants.

Model

• Architecture: Qwen3 dense ( Qwen3ForCausalLM ).
• Size: 0.617B params, hidden 1536, 20 layers, 12 query / 6 KV heads, FFN 4096. Context: 4096.
• Tokenizer: custom 64k byte-level BPE with per-digit splitting (ChatML special tokens).
• Pretraining: 88B tokens on K-5 LittleCurriculum (FineWeb-Edu filtered to U.S. grades K-5). WSD schedule, sharded Muon, MXFP8, Megatron-Core on 8xB200.

Evaluation

• In-domain (K-5) bits-per-byte (BPB): 0.622 .

Usage

# transformers (completion)
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
repo = "manueldeprada/littlelearner-0.6b-bounded-base"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, dtype="bfloat16", device_map="cuda")
ids = tok("The sum of 2 and 3 is", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
print(tok.decode(model.generate(**ids)[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

# vLLM
from vllm import LLM
llm = LLM("manueldeprada/littlelearner-0.6b-bounded-base")
print(llm.generate(["The sum of 2 and 3 is"])[0].outputs[0].text)