Instructions to use stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1 with Transformers:

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

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1")

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1")

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps

vLLM

How to use stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1

SGLang

How to use stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1 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 "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1" \
    --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": "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1",
		"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 "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1" \
        --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": "stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1 with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/stukenov/sozkz-core-llama-150m-kk-balanced-v1
```

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Kazakh LLaMA 150M — Balanced (Soz)

A LLaMA-architecture language model with ~150M parameters trained on a domain-balanced Kazakh corpus.

Overview

Property	Value
Parameters	~150M
Architecture	LLaMA (RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm)
Training data	Domain-balanced Kazakh corpus
License	Apache 2.0

Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("stukenov/kazakh-gpt2-50k")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("stukenov/kazakh-llama-150m-balanced")

input_ids = tokenizer("Қазақстан — ", return_tensors="pt").input_ids
output = model.generate(input_ids, max_new_tokens=50, do_sample=True, temperature=0.8)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Training Details

Trained from scratch on a balanced multi-domain Kazakh corpus
Precision: bfloat16

Project

Part of the Soz — Kazakh Language Models project, a research effort to build open-source language models for Kazakh.

Citation

@misc{tukenov2026soz,
  title={Soz: Small Language Models for Kazakh},
  author={Tukenov, Saken},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/stukenov/kazakh-llama-150m-balanced}
}

License

Apache 2.0

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Model size

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Tensor type

F32

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