continuum-ai/qwen2.5-3b-general-forged

30% Smaller, +0.4% Better

Qwen2.5-3B pruned by 30% and retrained for general through Experiential Plasticity.

2.30 → 2.29 perplexity · 3 cycles

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Qwen2.5-3B with cryptographic provenance via the ForgeAlloy chain of custody.

Benchmarks

Benchmark	Result	Verified
perplexity	2.3	Self-reported

What Changed (Base → Forged)

	Base	Forged	Delta
Perplexity (general)	2.30	2.29	-0.4% ✅
Pruning	None	30% heads (magnitude)	-30% params ✅
Training	General	general, 1000 steps	LR 2e-4, 3 cycles
Pipeline		prune → train	3 cycles

Runs On

Device	Format	Size	Speed
MacBook Pro 16GB	fp16	—	Verified
MacBook Pro 32GB	fp16	—	Verified
MacBook Pro 32GB	fp16	8.0GB	Expected
MacBook Air 16GB	Q8_0	~4.0GB	Expected
MacBook Air 8GB	Q4_K_M	~2.5GB	Expected
iPhone / Android	Q4_K_M	~2.5GB	Expected

Quick Start

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("continuum-ai/qwen2.5-3b-general-forged",
    torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("continuum-ai/qwen2.5-3b-general-forged")

inputs = tokenizer("def merge_sort(arr):", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=200)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Methodology

Produced via head pruning. Full methodology, ablations, and per-stage rationale are in the methodology paper and the companion MODEL_METHODOLOGY.md in this repository. The pipeline ran as prune → train over 3 cycles on MacBook Pro 16GB.

Chain of Custody

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What	Proof
Model weights	sha256:80def3c4bcf296e5960c37244b43018cc...
Code that ran	sha256:legacy-pre-alloy-...
Forged on	MacBook Pro 16GB, 2026-03-27T09:33:23-05:00
Trust level	self-attested
Spec	ForgeAlloy — Rust/Python/TypeScript

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License

apache-2.0