README.md

🤖 Alireo-400M Model Card

    <h2>📝 Model Description</h2>
    <p>Alireo-400M is a lightweight yet powerful Italian language model with 400M parameters, designed to provide efficient natural language processing capabilities while maintaining a smaller footprint compared to larger models.</p>
    
    <h2>✨ Key Features</h2>
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            <li>🏗️ <strong>Architecture:</strong> Transformer-based language model</li>
            <li>📊 <strong>Parameters:</strong> 400M</li>
            <li>🪟 <strong>Context Window:</strong> 8K tokens</li>
            <li>📚 <strong>Training Data:</strong> Curated Italian text corpus (books, articles, web content)</li>
            <li>💾 <strong>Model Size:</strong> ~800MB</li>
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    <h2>📈 Performance</h2>
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        <p>Despite its compact size, Alireo-400M demonstrates impressive performance:</p>
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            <li>🏆 Outperforms Qwen 0.5B across multiple benchmarks</li>
            <li>🎯 Maintains high accuracy in Italian language understanding tasks</li>
            <li>⚡ Efficient inference speed due to optimized architecture</li>
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    <h2>⚠️ Limitations</h2>
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            <li>Limited context window compared to larger models</li>
            <li>May struggle with highly specialized technical content</li>
            <li>Performance may vary on dialectal variations</li>
            <li>Not suitable for multilingual tasks</li>
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    <h2>💻 Hardware Requirements</h2>
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            <li>🎮 <strong>Minimum RAM:</strong> 2GB</li>
            <li>💪 <strong>Recommended RAM:</strong> 4GB</li>
            <li>🎨 <strong>GPU:</strong> Optional, but recommended for faster inference</li>
            <li>💿 <strong>Disk Space:</strong> ~1GB (including model and dependencies)</li>
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    <h2>📜 License</h2>
    <p>Apache 2.0</p>
    
    <h2>📄 Citation</h2>
    <div class="citation">@software{alireo2024,

author = {[Michele Montebovi]}, title = {Alireo-400M: A Lightweight Italian Language Model}, year = {2024}, }