bminixhofer.bsky.social
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Show PostWe hope Bolmo opens a path to larger models that adapt how they represent information across languages & domains. Because bytes also represent images & audio, the same ideas could eventually extend beyond text. Learn more in our blog: buff.ly/eAfLyFG
Show PostWe're making new Stage 1 checkpoints available with the byte-level components already trained & the original model's weights unchanged. Researchers can build on these to test new architectures & train the full system without repeating that initial stage.
Show PostWe byteified Qwen 3 8B & Llama 3 8B to create Bwen 8B & Blama 8B. Both come close to matching their source models' performance in our evaluations. Bwen 8B also outperforms Bolmo 7B across our aggregate evaluation suite. buff.ly/9BSybFo
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