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A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English
Soofi-Team, :, Benedikt Droste +30
We present Soofi S 30B-A3B, a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English. Its hybrid design activates only 3B…
New Encoders for German Trained from Scratch: Comparing ModernGBERT with Converted LLM2Vec Models
Julia Wunderle, Anton Ehrmanntraut, Jan Pfister +2
Encoders remain essential for efficient German NLP and NLU scenarios despite the rise of decoder-only LLMs. This work studies two routes to high-quality German encoders under ident…
LLäMmlein: Transparent, Compact and Competitive German-Only Language Models from Scratch
Jan Pfister, Julia Wunderle, Andreas Hotho
We create two German-only decoder models, LLäMmlein 120M and 1B, transparently from scratch and publish them, along with the training data, for the German NLP research community to…