Model: BananaMind/MiniBananaMind-V1 Source: Original Platform
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MiniBananaMind-V1
MiniBananaMind-V1 is a compact LLaMA-style causal language model from BananaMind. It is trained from scratch for next-token text generation on streamed FineWeb-Edu data and is intended as a small, inspectable base model for experiments, demos, and lightweight research workflows.
This is a base language model, not an instruction-tuned assistant. It is best used for continuation-style generation and experimentation rather than factual question answering or chat.
Model Details
- Developer: BananaMind
- Model type: LLaMA-style causal language model
- Library: Transformers
- Task: Text generation
- Training data: FineWeb-Edu
- Checkpoint: MiniBananaMind-V1 uploaded training checkpoint
- License: Apache 2.0
Architecture
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Layers | 6 |
| Hidden size | 256 |
| Attention heads | 8 |
| KV heads | 8 |
| Intermediate size | 768 |
| Context length | 512 tokens |
| Vocabulary size | 32,000 |
| Parameters | ~21.5M |
| Precision | float32 checkpoint |
Intended Use
MiniBananaMind-V1 is suitable for:
- Small-scale language-model experiments
- Educational demos of decoder-only generation
- Testing tokenization, generation settings, and inference pipelines
- Research prototypes where a very small causal LM is useful
It is not recommended for production assistants, safety-critical use, or tasks that require reliable factual knowledge.
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
import torch
repo_id = "BananaMind/MiniBananaMind-V1"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
repo_id,
torch_dtype=torch.float32,
device_map="auto",
)
prompt = "A computer is a machine that"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
with torch.no_grad():
output = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=64,
do_sample=True,
temperature=0.2,
top_p=0.9,
repetition_penalty=1.1,
pad_token_id=tokenizer.pad_token_id,
eos_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
Generation Notes
Because this is a small base model, output quality depends heavily on prompt
style and sampling settings. A temperature of 0.2 is recommended for more
stable continuations. For more varied text, increase temperature or top_p.
Limitations
- The model may hallucinate facts, names, citations, and dates.
- It has not been instruction tuned or aligned for chat behavior.
- It may reproduce biases or unsafe patterns present in web-scale training data.
- The short 512-token context length limits long-document use.
- Small model size means weaker reasoning and factual recall than larger LMs.
Training Data
MiniBananaMind-V1 was trained on streamed FineWeb-Edu text. FineWeb-Edu is a large educational-quality web corpus, so users should expect broad web-language coverage as well as the usual limitations of internet-scale data.
Training data attribution: this model was trained on FineWeb-Edu, a dataset released by Hugging Face as part of the FineWeb family.
Citation
If you use this model in a project, cite the Hugging Face repository and attribute the FineWeb-Edu training data:
@misc{minibananamindv1,
title = {MiniBananaMind-V1},
author = {BananaMind},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/BananaMind/MiniBananaMind-V1}}
}
Dataset: HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu
