Saidzoda-Tajik-LFM-2.6B: Adapting a 2.6B Hybrid Model to Tajik Tool Calling, and What Continued Pretraining Takes Away

Tohir Saidzoda, Nekruz Maxudov, Bedil Karimov +5

We release Saidzoda-Tajik-LFM-2.6B, a Tajik adaptation of the 2.6B-parameter hybrid model LFM2.5-2.6B-Base, built for tool calling in Tajik on modest hardware. The recipe has two s…