TinyTurk v2.7d

TinyTurk v2.7d is a 1.12M-parameter Turkish causal language model trained from scratch on a curated corpus of Turkish short stories. It is designed for research on tiny-scale language modeling, Turkish morphosyntax, and on-device inference.

Model Summary

Architecture

Per-block structure:

• RMSNorm then Causal MHA (RoPE) then Dropout (residual)
• RMSNorm then FFN (GELU, 128 to 512 to 128) then Dropout (residual)
• RMSNorm then Micro-FFN (GELU, 128 to 256 to 128) then Dropout scaled by fixed gate 0.75 (residual)

Key design choices:

• RoPE: Applied to Q and K only, theta = 10,000
• Pre-LayerNorm: GPT-2 style
• RMSNorm: Replaces LayerNorm
• Weight tying: Embedding shared with LM head
• Micro-FFN: Secondary narrow FFN with fixed gate 0.75
• Unified QKV: Single matmul

Parameter breakdown

Training

• Optimizer: AdamW
• Learning rate: 3e-4
• LR schedule: Cosine decay with 5 percent warmup
• Min LR: 1e-5
• Weight decay: 0.01
• Gradient clipping: 1.0
• Batch size: 32
• Epochs: 100
• Best epoch: 93
• Seed: 42

Corpus: approximately 3,017 Turkish short stories, approximately 360K BPE tokens.

Evaluation

• Validation cross-entropy: 2.2488
• Validation perplexity: 9.48

Turkish Structural Diagnostics (78 items, pairwise gold preference):

Usage

Install:

pip install torch sentencepiece huggingface_hub

Python:

import torch
import sentencepiece as spm
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from model import TinyTurkGPTV27, TinyTurkV27Config

REPO = "stunmuffin/TinyTurk-v2.7d"

ckpt_path = hf_hub_download(REPO, "pytorch_model.bin")
tok_path = hf_hub_download(REPO, "tokenizer_v11_bpe_512.model")

ckpt = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location="cpu")
config = TinyTurkV27Config(**ckpt["config"])
model = TinyTurkGPTV27(config)
model.load_state_dict(ckpt["model_state_dict"])
model.eval()

sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor(model_file=tok_path)

prompt = "Ali elmayi"
ids = [sp.bos_id()] + sp.encode(prompt, out_type=int)
input_ids = torch.tensor([ids])

with torch.no_grad():
    out = model.generate(input_ids, max_new_tokens=40,
                         temperature=0.8, top_k=40)

print(sp.decode(out[0].tolist()))

See example.py for a runnable script.

Limitations

• Small vocabulary (512 BPE)
• Short context (128 tokens)
• Narrow training domain (narrative fiction only)
• No instruction tuning
• No RLHF or safety alignment

Intended Use

• Research on small-scale transformers
• Education on transformer internals
• On-device inference experiments

Citation

@misc{tinyturk_v27d_2026,
  title = {TinyTurk v2.7d: 1.12M-parameter Turkish LM},
  author = {TinyTurk Project},
  year = {2026}
}

TinyTurk v2.7d is an experimental research artifact. Not a product.