Veyra 30M Base 5B Checkpoint

This is an early Veyra-30M base checkpoint trained for approximately 5B pretraining tokens.

It is not instruction tuned and should not be evaluated like a finished chat assistant. It is expected to hallucinate, repeat, fail simple factual/math prompts, and continue text in odd ways. This checkpoint is uploaded for transparency, reproducibility, and milestone tracking before further continuation training. This checkpoint is not optimized for use on edge devices yet.

Training summary

Approximate training stages:

• 1B tokens: Cosmopedia v2 bootstrap pretraining.
• +1.5B tokens: mixed continuation using Cosmopedia-v2 repository configs including cosmopedia-v2, fineweb-edu-dedup, and python-edu.
• +2.5B tokens: Went back to Cosmopedia v2 but increased context length from 512 -> 1024.
• Total: about 5B pretraining tokens.

Architecture

Veyra-30M is a small attention-sparse decoder-only language model.

Key details:

• Exact parameters: 31,988,224 / 31.99M
• Vocabulary: 8,192 tokens
• Hidden size: 512
• Layers: 8
• Attention heads: 8 query heads, 2 KV heads
• MLP intermediate size: 2048
• Activation: SwiGLU
• Normalization: RMSNorm
• Position encoding: RoPE
• Tied token embeddings / LM head
• Context in this checkpoint: 1024 tokens

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This repository uses custom Transformers code.

Minimal usage:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

repo = "veyra-ai/veyra-30m-base-5b-tokens"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True, dtype=torch.float32)
model.eval()

prompt = "Photosynthesis is the process by which"
input_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt, add_special_tokens=False, return_tensors="pt")

with torch.no_grad():
 out = model.generate(
 input_ids,
 do_sample=True,
 temperature=0.5,
 top_k=30,
 repetition_penalty=1.15,
 no_repeat_ngram_size=2,
 max_new_tokens=80,
 )

print(tokenizer.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

For raw completion prompts, use add_special_tokens=False.

Optimizer

Training used:

• CosineGatedAdam / CGA-v0 on 2D projection matrices
• AdamW on embeddings, norms, tied head, and auxiliary parameters

Intended use

This checkpoint is primarily for:

• continued pretraining
• research / ablations
• tracking Veyra training milestones
• testing tiny model behavior

It is not intended for production use or reliable factual answering.

Known limitations

This model can:

• hallucinate confidently
• repeat phrases
• fail arithmetic
• fail simple factual questions
• produce fake code
• continue in textbook-like or tutorial-like styles

Further continuation pretraining and post-training are planned.

The first version of Veyra, these models are meant for local CPU inference. • 3 items • Updated 24 days ago