llara1.1-100M-base

Llara

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Introduction

Llara1.1 is a 124M parameter (33M params more than llara1.0) autoregressive language model trained from scratch on English web text. It follows the GPT-2 Small architecture and is trained entirely from random initialisation — no pretrained weights, no distillation, no fine-tuning of an existing model. but it does use GPT's tokenizer (sorta)

The name Llara is original and unrelated to LLaMA or LoRA.

Note: The model is stil undertrained according to The Chinchilla Laws (2022)

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Improvements

• Incressed context length to 512 tokens
• Better and clearner training data
• Able to form cohirent sentences even at 20 max tokens
• Better GPT config

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Model Details

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Usage

from transformers import GPT2LMHeadModel, AutoTokenizer, pipeline

model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained("helloadhavan/llara1.1-100M-base")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("helloadhavan/llara1.1-100M-base")

gen = pipeline("text-generation", model=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)

output = gen(
    "Once upon a time",
    max_new_tokens=20,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.8,
    top_p=0.95,
    repetition_penalty=1.1,
)

print(output[0]["generated_text"])

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Limitations

• Llara is trained on English web text only and performs poorly on other languages.
• Like all autoregressive LMs trained on web data, it may reproduce biases, factual errors, or inappropriate content present in the training corpus.
• It is a research model trained from scratch and is not instruction-tuned or aligned — it should not be used in production or user-facing applications without further fine-tuning and safety work.
• At 124M parameters and 2M training documents, it is significantly smaller and less trained than models like GPT-2 (which saw 40GB of text). Outputs may be incoherent on complex prompts.

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Intended Use

Llara is intended for:

• Research and experimentation with small language models
• Learning how GPT-style models are trained from scratch
• A base for fine-tuning on downstream tasks

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Training Framework

Trained using Hugging Face Transformers Trainer on a single GPU.

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License

Apache 2.0

<div> <blockquote><strong>Note:</strong> i am a AI hobbyist, not an AI engineer</blockquote> </div>