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+base_model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct
+language:
+  - en
+license: apache-2.0
+tags:
+  - from-scratch
+  - custom-architecture
+  - custom-tokenizer
+  - reasoning
+  - chain-of-thought
+  - think-tags
+  - coding
+  - fine-tuned
+  - lora
+  - peft
+  - unsloth
+  - astragpt
+  - tantra-ai-labs
+  - rtx-4090
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
 library_name: transformers
-tags: []
+model_creator: Tantra AI Labs
 ---
 
-# Model Card for Model ID
+# AstraGPT-7B 🚀
 
-<!-- Provide a quick summary of what the model is/does. -->
+<div align="center">
 
+**A 7-Billion Parameter Language Model — Built From Scratch**
 
+*Custom Architecture · Custom BPE Tokenizer · Reasoning Fine-Tuned on Dual RTX 4090*
 
-## Model Details
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-green.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0)
+[![Model](https://img.shields.io/badge/HuggingFace-AstraGPT--7B-yellow)](https://huggingface.co/adityawakharkar/AstraGPT-7B)
+[![Params](https://img.shields.io/badge/Parameters-7B-blue)]()
+[![GPU](https://img.shields.io/badge/Trained%20On-2×%20RTX%204090-76b900?logo=nvidia)](https://www.nvidia.com)
+[![By](https://img.shields.io/badge/By-Tantra%20AI%20Labs-purple)](https://github.com/codewith-aditya)
 
-### Model Description
+Built by **Aditya Wakharkar** | [Tantra AI Labs](https://github.com/codewith-aditya)
 
-<!-- Provide a longer summary of what this model is. -->
+</div>
 
-This is the model card of a 🤗 transformers model that has been pushed on the Hub. This model card has been automatically generated.
-
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-## Uses
-
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-### Direct Use
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-### Downstream Use [optional]
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-### Out-of-Scope Use
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-## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
-
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-### Recommendations
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-Users (both direct and downstream) should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the model. More information needed for further recommendations.
-
-## How to Get Started with the Model
-
-Use the code below to get started with the model.
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-## Training Details
-
-### Training Data
-
-<!-- This should link to a Dataset Card, perhaps with a short stub of information on what the training data is all about as well as documentation related to data pre-processing or additional filtering. -->
-
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+---
 
-### Training Procedure
+## 🧠 What is AstraGPT-7B?
 
-<!-- This relates heavily to the Technical Specifications. Content here should link to that section when it is relevant to the training procedure. -->
+AstraGPT-7B is a **7-billion parameter decoder-only language model** designed for coding and chain-of-thought reasoning.
 
-#### Preprocessing [optional]
+Unlike most open-source fine-tunes, **every core component of AstraGPT was designed and implemented from scratch in PyTorch** — including the transformer architecture, the BPE tokenizer, and the supervised fine-tuning pipeline.
 
-[More Information Needed]
+The model was then **fine-tuned on a reasoning dataset** using LoRA on a **private VPS equipped with dual NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs**, giving it native support for `<think>...</think>` style reasoning output.
 
+> *"Most people fine-tune models. We built one."*
 
-#### Training Hyperparameters
+---
 
-- **Training regime:** [More Information Needed] <!--fp32, fp16 mixed precision, bf16 mixed precision, bf16 non-mixed precision, fp16 non-mixed precision, fp8 mixed precision -->
+## 🏗️ Built From Scratch — Architecture Overview
+
+Every layer of AstraGPT-7B was implemented from first principles in PyTorch. No `AutoModel`, no copy-paste — pure custom code.
+
+```
+Input Token IDs
+      │
+      ▼
+Token Embedding  [64,000 → 4,096]
+      │
+      ▼  ×32 Transformer Blocks
+┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
+│           AstraGPT Block            │
+│                                     │
+│  RMSNorm (Pre-norm)                 │
+│  → Grouped Query Attention (GQA)    │
+│    · 32 Query Heads                 │
+│    · 8 Key-Value Heads              │
+│    · RoPE (θ = 1,000,000)           │
+│    · KV Cache for inference         │
+│  → Residual Add                     │
+│                                     │
+│  RMSNorm (Pre-norm)                 │
+│  → SwiGLU Feed-Forward Network      │
+│    · gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj  │
+│    · intermediate_size = 11,008     │
+│  → Residual Add                     │
+└─────────────────────────────────────┘
+      │
+      ▼
+Final RMSNorm
+      │
+      ▼
+LM Head  [4,096 → 64,000]
+      │
+      ▼
+Logits → Next Token
+```
+
+### Architecture Highlights
+
+| Component | Implementation | Why |
+|-----------|---------------|-----|
+| **Grouped Query Attention (GQA)** | 32Q / 8KV heads — built from scratch | 4× less KV memory vs MHA. Same used in LLaMA-3, Mistral |
+| **Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE)** | Full RoPE math from scratch, θ=1M | Better long-context vs learned embeddings |
+| **SwiGLU FFN** | gate × SiLU(up) through down_proj | Outperforms GELU/ReLU on LM benchmarks |
+| **RMSNorm** | Pre-norm, no bias, no mean subtraction | ~30% faster than LayerNorm |
+| **Flash Attention** | PyTorch 2.0 `scaled_dot_product_attention` | Memory-efficient attention with O(n) space |
+
+### Parameter Count (~7B)
+
+| Component | Parameters |
+|-----------|-----------|
+| Token Embedding (64K × 4096) | ~262M |
+| Attention × 32 layers | ~2.15B |
+| SwiGLU FFN × 32 layers | ~4.32B |
+| RMSNorm × 65 | ~267K |
+| LM Head | ~262M |
+| **Total** | **~7.0B** |
 
-#### Speeds, Sizes, Times [optional]
+---
 
-<!-- This section provides information about throughput, start/end time, checkpoint size if relevant, etc. -->
+## 🔤 Custom BPE Tokenizer — From Scratch
 
-[More Information Needed]
+AstraGPT uses a **custom Byte Pair Encoding tokenizer** built entirely from scratch — no SentencePiece, no HuggingFace tokenizers library.
 
-## Evaluation
+```python
+# Built from scratch
+from tokenizer import BPETokenizer
 
-<!-- This section describes the evaluation protocols and provides the results. -->
+tok = BPETokenizer(vocab_size=64_000)
+tok.train(open("corpus.txt"), num_merges=60_000)
+```
 
-### Testing Data, Factors & Metrics
+**Tokenizer features:**
+- **Byte-level base vocabulary** — 256 raw bytes, handles any Unicode
+- **GPT-4 style pre-tokenization regex** — smart word boundary splitting
+- **64,000 vocab size** — 60K BPE merges on top of byte base
+- **Built-in special tokens:** `<think>`, `</think>`, `<|im_start|>`, `<|im_end|>`, BOS, EOS, PAD
+- **`apply_chat_template()`** — custom chat format support
+- **Save/load** — JSON-serializable merge rules
 
-#### Testing Data
+---
 
-<!-- This should link to a Dataset Card if possible. -->
+## ⚡ Training — Dual RTX 4090 on Private VPS
+
+Fine-tuning was performed on a **private Linux VPS with 2× NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs** (total 48GB VRAM).
+
+### Hardware Setup
+
+| Spec | Value |
+|------|-------|
+| GPUs | **2× NVIDIA RTX 4090** (24GB VRAM each) |
+| Total VRAM | **48 GB** |
+| CPU | High-core count server CPU |
+| Infrastructure | Private VPS (bare metal) |
+| OS | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS |
+| CUDA | 12.x |
+
+### Training Pipeline — Also Built From Scratch
+
+The SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) training loop was implemented from scratch with production-grade features:
+
+```python
+# Full custom training loop
+trainer = SFTTrainer(
+    model=model,
+    tokenizer=tokenizer,
+    dataset=dataset,
+    # Dual GPU via DDP
+    use_bf16=True,
+    grad_accumulation=8,
+    learning_rate=2e-4,
+    use_wandb=True,
+)
+trainer.train()
+```
+
+**Training loop features:**
+- ✅ **Gradient accumulation** — effective large batch training
+- ✅ **Mixed precision (BF16)** — full RTX 4090 tensor core utilization
+- ✅ **Cosine LR schedule with warmup** — smooth convergence
+- ✅ **Gradient clipping** — stable training
+- ✅ **W&B logging** — real-time loss/LR tracking
+- ✅ **Checkpoint saving** — best model tracking by loss
+
+### Fine-Tuning Hyperparameters
+
+| Parameter | Value |
+|-----------|-------|
+| Method | LoRA (PEFT) via Unsloth |
+| LoRA Rank | 16 |
+| LoRA Alpha | 32 |
+| Target Modules | q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj |
+| Max Sequence Length | 2,048 tokens |
+| Effective Batch Size | 16 (2 × grad_accum 8) |
+| Learning Rate | 2e-4 |
+| LR Scheduler | Cosine with warmup |
+| Warmup Ratio | 5% |
+| Epochs | 3 |
+| Precision | BF16 mixed precision |
+| Optimizer | AdamW 8-bit |
+
+### Post-Training
+
+After fine-tuning, the LoRA adapter was **merged back into base model weights** — resulting in a single, self-contained model with no external adapter dependency.
 
-[More Information Needed]
+---
 
-#### Factors
+## 🤔 Thinking / Reasoning Support
 
-<!-- These are the things the evaluation is disaggregating by, e.g., subpopulations or domains. -->
+AstraGPT-7B natively generates `<think>` tag reasoning when triggered. This was trained in via the fine-tuning dataset, which used structured chain-of-thought formatting.
 
-[More Information Needed]
+**Example:**
 
-#### Metrics
+**Input:**
+```
+What is 15 * 47?
+```
 
-<!-- These are the evaluation metrics being used, ideally with a description of why. -->
+**Output:**
+```
+<think>
+The multiplication involves multiplying 15 by 47.
+  15 × 47 = 15 × 40 + 15 × 7
+          = 600 + 105
+          = 705
+</think>
+705
+```
 
-[More Information Needed]
+**Trigger thinking mode:**
+```python
+# Append this to your prompt to force reasoning
+prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, ...) + "<think>\n"
+```
 
-### Results
+---
 
-[More Information Needed]
+## ⚡ Quick Start
+
+### Install
+
+```bash
+pip install transformers torch bitsandbytes accelerate
+```
+
+### Basic Inference
+
+```python
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
+import torch
+
+model_id = "adityawakharkar/AstraGPT-7B"
+
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    model_id,
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+    device_map="auto"
+)
+
+messages = [
+    {
+        "role": "system",
+        "content": "You are AstraGPT, a helpful coding AI built by Tantra AI Labs. Think carefully using <think>...</think> tags before answering."
+    },
+    {
+        "role": "user",
+        "content": "Write a Python function to reverse a linked list."
+    }
+]
+
+prompt = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
+    messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
+) + "<think>\n"   # ← triggers reasoning
+
+inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
+
+with torch.no_grad():
+    output = model.generate(
+        **inputs,
+        max_new_tokens=1024,
+        temperature=0.3,
+        do_sample=True,
+        repetition_penalty=1.1,
+        pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+    )
+
+response = tokenizer.decode(
+    output[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]:],
+    skip_special_tokens=True
+)
+print(response)
+```
+
+### 4-bit Quantized (Runs on ~6GB VRAM)
+
+```python
+from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig
+
+bnb = BitsAndBytesConfig(
+    load_in_4bit=True,
+    bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
+    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16,
+    bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
+)
+
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    "adityawakharkar/AstraGPT-7B",
+    quantization_config=bnb,
+    device_map="auto"
+)
+```
 
-#### Summary
+---
 
+## 📁 Codebase
+
+The full from-scratch implementation is open-source:
+
+```
+AstraGPT-7B-scratch/
+├── model/
+│   ├── config.py              ← AstraGPTConfig (7B hyperparams, 1B/3B presets)
+│   ├── rotary_embedding.py    ← RoPE from scratch (precompute + apply)
+│   ├── attention.py           ← GQA from scratch (32Q / 8KV + KV cache)
+│   ├── feedforward.py         ← SwiGLU + RMSNorm + TransformerBlock
+│   └── transformer.py         ← Full model + generate() + save/load
+├── tokenizer/
+│   ├── bpe_tokenizer.py       ← Full BPE tokenizer (train, encode, decode)
+│   └── train_tokenizer.py     ← Train on any text corpus
+└── training/
+    └── sft_trainer.py         ← Complete SFT loop (grad accum, bf16, cosine LR)
+```
 
+---
 
-## Model Examination [optional]
+## Bias, Risks, and Limitations
 
-<!-- Relevant interpretability work for the model goes here -->
+- **Hallucination:** Can produce confident but incorrect answers — always verify
+- **Math limits:** Complex multi-step math may fail — 7B is a small model
+- **English-primary:** Best performance in English
+- **Reasoning trigger:** `<think>` tags work most reliably with explicit `<think>\n` prefix in prompt
 
-[More Information Needed]
+---
 
 ## Environmental Impact
 
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-
-Carbon emissions can be estimated using the [Machine Learning Impact calculator](https://mlco2.github.io/impact#compute) presented in [Lacoste et al. (2019)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700).
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-## Technical Specifications [optional]
-
-### Model Architecture and Objective
-
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+- **Hardware:** 2× NVIDIA RTX 4090 (48GB combined VRAM)
+- **Infrastructure:** Private bare-metal VPS
+- **Training Duration:** ~3–4 hours
+- **Carbon Emitted:** Estimated ~2–3 kgCO2eq
 
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-## Citation [optional]
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+---
 
-## Glossary [optional]
+## Citation
 
-<!-- If relevant, include terms and calculations in this section that can help readers understand the model or model card. -->
+```bibtex
+@misc{astragpt7b2026,
+  author       = {Aditya Wakharkar},
+  title        = {AstraGPT-7B: A 7B LLM Built From Scratch with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning},
+  year         = {2026},
+  publisher    = {HuggingFace},
+  organization = {Tantra AI Labs},
+  url          = {https://huggingface.co/adityawakharkar/AstraGPT-7B},
+  note         = {Custom architecture, custom BPE tokenizer, trained on 2× RTX 4090}
+}
+```
 
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+---
 
-## More Information [optional]
+## Model Card Authors
 
-[More Information Needed]
+**Aditya Wakharkar** — [@adityawakharkar](https://huggingface.co/adityawakharkar) | [GitHub @codewith-aditya](https://github.com/codewith-aditya)
 
-## Model Card Authors [optional]
+## Contact
 
-[More Information Needed]
+- 🐙 GitHub: [github.com/codewith-aditya](https://github.com/codewith-aditya)
+- 🤗 HuggingFace: [@adityawakharkar](https://huggingface.co/adityawakharkar)
 
-## Model Card Contact
+---
 
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+<div align="center">
+<em>Built from scratch with ❤️ by <strong>Tantra AI Labs</strong></em><br/>
+<em>Every layer. Every weight. Every line of code.</em>
+</div>