sarvam-105b

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Index

1. Introduction
2. Architecture
3. Benchmarks
   • Knowledge & Coding
   • Reasoning & Math
   • Agentic
4. Inference
   • Hugging Face
   • vLLM
   • SGLang
5. Footnote
6. Citation

Introduction

Sarvam-105B is an advanced Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 10.3B active parameters, designed for superior performance across a wide range of complex tasks. It is highly optimized for complex reasoning, with particular strength in agentic tasks, mathematics, and coding.

Sarvam-105B is a top-tier performer, consistently matching or surpassing several major closed-source models and staying within a narrow margin of frontier models across diverse reasoning and agentic benchmarks. It demonstrates exceptional agentic and reasoning capabilities in real-world applications such as web search and technical troubleshooting.

A major focus during training was the Indian context and languages, resulting in state-of-the-art performance across 22 Indian languages for its model size.

Sarvam-105B is open-sourced under the Apache License. For more details, see our blog.

Architecture

The 105B model adopts an MLA-style attention stack with decoupled QK head dimensions (q_head_dim=192 split into RoPE and noPE components, v_head_dim=128) and a large head_dim of 576, enabling higher representational bandwidth per head while keeping the hidden size at 4096. This approach improves attention expressivity and long-context extrapolation (via YaRN scaling with a factor of 40 and 128K context). It has an intermediate_size (16384) and moe_intermediate_size (2048), combined with top-8 routing over 128 experts, which increases per-token active capacity while keeping activation cost manageable. The model has one shared expert, a routed scaling factor of 2.5, and auxiliary-loss-free router balancing.

Benchmarks

<details> <summary>Knowledge & Coding</summary> </details> <details> <summary>Reasoning & Math</summary> </details> <details> <summary>Agentic</summary>

See footnote for evaluation details.

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Inference

<details> <summary>Huggingface</summary>

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, GenerationConfig

model_name = "sarvamai/sarvam-105b"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

def generate_text(
    prompt: str,
    max_new_tokens: int = 2048,
    temperature: float = 0.8,
    top_p: float = 0.95,
    repetition_penalty: float = 1.0,
) -> None:
    inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda:0")

    generation_config = GenerationConfig(
        max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
        repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
        temperature=temperature,
        top_p=top_p,
        do_sample=True,
    )

    with torch.no_grad():
        output_ids = model.generate(
            input_ids=inputs["input_ids"],
            attention_mask=inputs["attention_mask"],
            generation_config=generation_config,
        )
    return tokenizer.decode(output_ids[0], skip_special_tokens=True)

prompts = [
    "Which country won the FIFA World Cup in 2012?",
]

for prompt in prompts:
    templated_prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
      [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
      tokenize=False,
      add_generation_prompt=True,
      enable_thinking=True
    )
    output = generate_text(templated_prompt, max_new_tokens=512)
    print("Prompt: ", prompt)
    print("Generated text: ", output)
    print("=" * 100)

</details> <details> <summary>SGLang</summary>

Install latest SGLang from source

git clone https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git
cd sglang
pip install -e "python[all]"

Instantiate model and Run

import sglang as sgl
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_path = "sarvamai/sarvam-105b"
engine = sgl.Engine(
    model_path=model_path,
    tp_size=4,
    mem_fraction_static=0.70,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    dtype="bfloat16",
    moe_runner_backend="flashinfer_cutedsl",
    prefill_attention_backend="fa3",
    decode_attention_backend="flashmla",
    disable_radix_cache=False,
)

sampling_params = {
    "temperature": 0.8,
    "max_new_tokens": 2048,
    "repetition_penalty": 1.0,
}

prompts = [
    "Which band released the album Dark Side of the Moon in 1973?",
]

outputs = engine.generate([
    tokenizer.apply_chat_template([
        {"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
        tokenize=False,
        add_generation_prompt=True,
        enable_thinking=True)
        for prompt in prompts], 
    sampling_params)
for p, o in zip(prompts, outputs):
    print("Prompt: ", p)
    print("Generated text: ", o['text'])
    print("=" * 100)

</details> <details> <summary>vLLM</summary>

Note: currently a PR is open for native support for the Sarvam models in vLLM (link). Therefore, we have 2 options here.

Option 1: install from source (hard)

• Use the custom fork here: link
• Follow the instructions here to install from source: link

Option 2: hot-patch (easy)

• Run hotpatch_vllm.py
• This will do the following:
  • install vllm=0.15.0
  • add 2 model entries to registry.py
  • download the model executors for sarvam-105b and sarvam-30b

Once this is done, you can run vLLM as usual

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_path = "sarvamai/sarvam-105b"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
llm = LLM(model=model_path, 
            trust_remote_code=True, 
            max_model_len=2048, 
            tensor_parallel_size=8, 
            max_num_seqs=16,
        )
sampling_params = SamplingParams(
                    temperature=0.8, 
                    max_tokens=2048, 
                    repetition_penalty=1.0,
                    spaces_between_special_tokens=True
                )

prompts = [
    "Which artist painted The Persistence of Memory (the melting clocks)?",
]

outputs = llm.generate([
    tokenizer.apply_chat_template([
        {"role": "user", "content": prompt}],
        tokenize=False,
        add_generation_prompt=True,
        enable_thinking=True)
        for prompt in prompts], 
    sampling_params)
for p, o in zip(prompts, outputs):
    print("Prompt: ", p)
    print("Generated text: ", o.outputs[0].text)
    print("=" * 100)

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Footnote

• General settings: All benchmarks are evaluated with a maximum context length of 65,536 tokens.
• Reasoning & Math benchmarks (Math500, MMLU, MMLU Pro, GPQA Diamond, AIME 25, Beyond AIME, HMMT): Evaluated with temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, max_new_tokens=65536.
• Coding & Knowledge benchmarks (Live Code Bench v6, Arena Hard v2, IF Eval): Evaluated with temperature=1.0, top_p=1.0, max_new_tokens=65536.
• Writing Bench: Responses generated using official Writing-Bench parameters: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, max_length=16000. Scoring performed using the official Writing-Bench critic model with: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, max_length=2048.
• Agentic benchmarks (BrowseComp, SWE Bench Verified, τ² Bench): Evaluated with temperature=0.5, top_p=1.0, max_new_tokens=32768.

Citation

@misc{sarvam_sovereign_models,
  title        = {Introducing Sarvam's Sovereign Models},
  author       = {{Sarvam Foundation Models Team}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.sarvam.ai/blogs/sarvam-30b-105b}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-03-03}
}