🌸 SEA Model series Op.0: Saint Iberis d12 (Parameters: 182M)

This repository employs a module called SLC2, inspired by Liquid Time-Constant Networks (LTCs) and Liquid Foundation Models (LFM2), to enable faster training and inference for nanochat. The SEA Model series Op.0: Saint Iberis achieves comparable performance while reducing training time by more than 30 minutes and lowering computational costs by over $10. You are free to use the model from the repository below.

このリポジトリはnanochatをより高速に学習・推論するために、LTCsおよびLFM2から着想を得たSLC2というモジュールを使用しています。 SEA Model series Op.0: Saint Iberisは元のnanoGPTと比較して学習時間を30分以上、$10以上のコストを削減しながら、同等の性能を達成することが可能です。 モデルは下記リポジトリからご自由に利用できます。

Ripository: Liquid_Time_nanochat

🌸 Saint Iberis Architecture

🌸 SLC2 Formulation

y = B ⋅ ∏ᵢ₌ⱼ⁽ʲ⁺ᵏ⁾ Aᵢ ⋅ xᵢ

🌸 SLC2 pseudo code

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Algorithm: SLC2
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Input: x: (B, S, E)
Output: y: (B, S, E)
    1: alpha, A, B, x₁ <- Linear(x)
    2: x₂: (B, S, E) <- Convolution1D(E, E)(SiLU(alpha)*A*x₁)
    3: x₃: (B, S, E) <- B*SiLU(x₂)
    4: y: (B, S, E) <- Linear(x₃)
    5: return y
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🌸 Performance

🌸 Comparison with other models

Cited from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24945

🌸 Training result

Base Training

• Minimum validation bpb: 0.8906
• Final validation bpb: 0.8906

Mid Training

• Minimum validation bpb: 0.4837

SFT Training

• Training loss: 0.7849
• Validation loss: 1.2971

🌸 Usage

install the ripository:

git clone https://github.com/Rikka-Botan/Liquid_Time_nanochat.git

Then, you can run this inference snippet:

import os
import sys
import torch
import json
import time
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

if not os.path.exists("Liquid_Time_nanochat"):
    os.system("git clone https://github.com/Rikka-Botan/Liquid_Time_nanochat")

os.chdir("Liquid_Time_nanochat")
sys.path.append(os.getcwd())

from nanochat.gpt import GPT, GPTConfig
from nanochat.tokenizer import RustBPETokenizer

repo_id = "RikkaBotan/nanochat_d12_saint_iberis"
model_file = "model_000700.pt"
meta_file = "meta_000700.json"
tokenizer_file = "tokenizer.pkl"

local_pt_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=model_file)
local_meta_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=meta_file)
local_tokenizer_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id=repo_id, filename=tokenizer_file, local_dir=os.getcwd())

with open(local_meta_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    meta_data = json.load(f)

model_config = GPTConfig(**meta_data["model_config"])

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
model = GPT(model_config).to(device)

state_dict = torch.load(local_pt_path, map_location=device)
state_dict = {k.removeprefix("_orig_mod."): v for k, v in state_dict.items()}
model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=True)
model.eval()

tokenizer = RustBPETokenizer.from_directory(os.getcwd())

try:
    tokenizer.bos_token_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|bos|>")
except KeyError:
    tokenizer.bos_token_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|endoftext|>")

tokenizer.user_start_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|user_start|>")
tokenizer.user_end_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|user_end|>")
tokenizer.assistant_start_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|assistant_start|>")
tokenizer.assistant_end_id = tokenizer.enc.encode_single_token("<|assistant_end|>")
tokenizer.stop_tokens = {tokenizer.assistant_end_id, tokenizer.bos_token_id}

def format_conversation(tokenizer, history):
    tokens = [tokenizer.bos_token_id]
    for message in history:
        role = message["role"]
        content = message["content"]
        content_tokens = tokenizer.encode(content)
        if role == "user":
            tokens.extend([tokenizer.user_start_id, *content_tokens, tokenizer.user_end_id])
        elif role == "assistant":
            tokens.extend([tokenizer.assistant_start_id, *content_tokens, tokenizer.assistant_end_id])
    tokens.append(tokenizer.assistant_start_id)
    return tokens

def generate_reply(prompt, conv_history, temperature=0.7, top_k=20, top_p=0.8,
                   repetition_penalty=1.15, max_new_tokens=64):
    conv_history.append({"role": "user", "content": prompt})
    tokens = format_conversation(tokenizer, conv_history)
    input_ids = torch.tensor(tokens, dtype=torch.long).unsqueeze(0).to(device)

    stream = model.generate(
        input_ids,
        max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
        temperature=temperature,
        top_k=top_k,
        top_p=top_p,
        repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
    )

    buffer_text = ""
    for token_id in stream:
        text_piece = tokenizer.decode([token_id])
        if text_piece == "<|assistant_end|>":
            break
        buffer_text += text_piece
    conv_history.append({"role": "assistant", "content": buffer_text})
    return buffer_text

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("🌸 NanoChat - Saint Iberis CLI")
    print("Type 'exit' to quit.\n")
    conv_history = []

    while True:
        prompt = input("You: ")
        if prompt.lower() in {"exit", "quit"}:
            print("Goodbye!")
            break

        reply = generate_reply(prompt, conv_history)
        print(f"AI: {reply}\n")

🌸 Acknowledgments

I thank Andrej Karpathy's fullstack llm project to build an LLM, nanochat.

I thank the developers of python and pytorch.

I thank all the researchers for their efforts to date.

I thank Japan's high standard of education.

And most of all, thank you for your interest in this repository.

🌸 About us

Japanese independent researcher having shy and pampered personality. Twin-tail hair is a charm point. Interested in nlp. Usually using python and C.