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license: apache-2.0
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![icaro](https://huggingface.co/alexsobolev/IcaroLM/resolve/main/assets/icaro.jpg)

# IcaroLM

IcaroLM is a fine-tuned and quantized version of Qwen2 1.5B, designed specifically for on-device mobile applications. By leveraging a 1.5B parameter architecture and quantization, the model is approximately **600MB** in size, making it practical for local deployment on smartphones and edge devices without requiring cloud connectivity.

IcaroLM has been fine-tuned for two primary objectives: maintaining emotionally intelligent conversations and executing reliable function calls within a chat flow.

## Key Features

- **Mobile-Ready Footprint:** The quantized model is roughly 600MB, allowing for efficient storage and inference on consumer mobile hardware.
- **Function Calling:** Explicitly fine-tuned to understand and execute function calls, enabling local task automation and tool use.
- **Empathetic Chat:** Trained on datasets curated for emotional intelligence, allowing for more natural and supportive interactions compared to base models.

## Use Cases

- **Mobile Assistants:** Local chatbots that can perform actions on the device (via function calling) without sending data to the server.
- **Emotional Support Apps:** Companion applications requiring a more empathetic and nuanced conversational tone.
- **Edge Automation:** Task-oriented agents that need to run locally with low latency.

## Prompt format

```
<|im_start|>system
{system_prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

```

## Function calling example
```
<|im_start|>system  
You are a helpful assistant with access to the following functions. Use them if required -[{ 
   "name":"get_news", 
   "description":"Get the latest news.", 
   "parameters":{ 
      "type":"object", 
      "properties":{ 
         "location":{ 
            "type":"string", 
            "description":"The location for which to fetch news" 
         } 
      }, 
      "required":[ 
         "location" 
      ] 
   } 
}, 
{ 
  "name": "get_current_weather", 
  "description": "Get the current weather", 
  "parameters": { 
      "type": "object", 
      "properties": { 
          "location": { 
              "type": "string", 
              "description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA" 
          }, 
      }, 
      "required": ["location"], 
  }, 
}]<|im_end|>  
<|im_start|>user  
What's the latest news in Samara?<|im_end|>  
<|im_start|>assistant
```
Result:
```
<|im_start|>assistant
<functioncall> {"name": "get_news", "arguments": '{"location": "Samara"}'}  <|im_end|>
```