Instructions to use Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B")

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMultimodalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B")
model = AutoModelForMultimodalLM.from_pretrained("Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B

SGLang

How to use Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B
```
Browse Quantizations to use this model in llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or any compatible app.

GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B

Model Summary

GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B is a decoder-transformer natively pretrained in Bengali. This model is part of an ablation study to measure the impact of our educational data filtering/augmentation strategy on the downstream performance of models trained with GigaKriya. GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B was trained with ~34 billion tokens, those being a mixture of the non-educational portion of GigaKriya (i.e., samples with an Edu Score < 3). This model has 1.5 billion parameters and a context length of 4096 tokens.

Details

Architecture: a Transformer-based model (llama)
Size: 1,510,066,176 parameters
Context length: 4096 tokens
Dataset(s):
- GigaKriya (non-educational subset, Edu Score < 3)
Language(s): Bengali
Batch size: 2,097,152 tokens
Number of steps: 16,000
GPU: 16 NVIDIA A40 (48 GB)
Training time: ~60.49 hours
Emissions: 94.44 KgCO2 (Germany)
Total energy consumption: 247.90 kWh

This repository has the source code used to train this model. The complete configuration used for training is available in the following config file:

Single stage (linear warmup with cosine decay): training_config.yaml

The main branch of this repository contains the final checkpoint saved at step 16,000. All other checkpoints are available as separate branches. To load a specific checkpoint, you can use the following code snippet:

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B"
revision = "step-2000"  # Change this to the desired checkpoint branch
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, revision=revision)

Or, you can access all the revisions for the models via the following code snippet:

from huggingface_hub import list_repo_refs
out = list_repo_refs("Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B")
branches = [b.name for b in out.branches]
print(branches)

Intended Uses

The primary intended use of this model is to serve as a baseline for evaluating the impact of data quality and filtering on Bengali language model performance. Researchers and practitioners can use this model as a reference point for further ablation studies or for comparison with other models trained on different data mixtures.

Basic usage

from transformers import GenerationConfig, TextGenerationPipeline, AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

# Specify the model and tokenizer
model_id = "Polygl0t/GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id)

# Specify the generation parameters as you like
generation_config = GenerationConfig(
    **{
    "do_sample": True,
    "max_new_tokens": 150,
    "renormalize_logits": True,
    "repetition_penalty": 1.2,
    "temperature": 0.1,
    "top_k": 50,
    "top_p": 1.0,
    "use_cache": True,
  }
)

device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
generator = TextGenerationPipeline(model=model, task="text-generation", tokenizer=tokenizer, device=device)

# Generate text
prompt = "ভারতের রাজধানী কী ?"
completion = generator(prompt, generation_config=generation_config)
print(completion[0]['generated_text'])

Evaluations

Figures below show the per-benchmark performance of GigaKriya-ablation-EDU-1.5B (educational subset, Edu Score >= 3) compared to GigaKriya-ablation-NonEDU-1.5B (non educational subset, Edu Score < 3). GigaKriya-Edu outperforms GigaKriya-NonEdu on 7 of 8 benchmarks and achieves a higher NPM score. These results suggest that training on educationally curated content consistently yields stronger language understanding.

🏆 HellaSwag

🏆 ARC Challenge

🏆 MMLU

🏆 Bangla MMLU

🏆 BoolQ

🏆PIQA

🏆CommonsenseQA

🏆OpenbookQA

Aggregate NPM Across Benchmarks

Cite as 🤗

@misc{fatimah2026liltii,
  title={{LilTii: A 0.6B Bengali Language Model that Outperforms Qwen}},
  author={Shiza Fatimah and Aniket Sen and Sophia Falk and Florian Mai and Lucie Flek and Nicholas Kluge Corr{\^e}a},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={\url{https://hf.co/blog/Polygl0t/liltii}}
}

Aknowlegments

Polyglot is a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MWK) as part of TRA Sustainable Futures (University of Bonn) and the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.

We also gratefully acknowledge the granted access to the Marvin cluster hosted by University of Bonn along with the support provided by its High Performance Computing & Analytics Lab.