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🚀 We pretrained a language model from scratch on an inference-only NPU, with real backpropagation.
🤗 Model: https://huggingface.co/FINAL-Bench/VKORE-46M-NPU 📝 Technical write-up: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/backpropagation-on-an-inference-only-npu-pretraini
"NPUs are inference-only, you can't train on them." We built a counterexample: VKORE-46M-NPU, trained from scratch on a first-gen (2025) inference NPU, 32 chips, no pretrained weights. A 46M decoder-only model (RoPE · SwiGLU · RMSNorm · GQA), char-level, TinyStories.
📏 Why trust it: a falling-loss curve proves nothing. So we trained the same model under identical init, data, and schedule on the NPU and on a GPU reference. · Loss trajectories correlate at 0.99 · Throughput converged to a comparable level The NPU backward pass and optimizer updates do numerically the same work as the GPU, not an approximation that merely trends down.
🧩 One accelerator now covers pretraining · LoRA · inference · quantization. We call this layer VKORE: "CUDA for NPUs."
⚖️ Public: weights, model card, NPU-vs-GPU comparison. Private (patent-pending, paper to follow): the core training technique. 46M char-level is toy scale on purpose: it proves the training path, not model quality. Larger models and real data are next.
Feedback from folks working on custom autograd backends and low-precision training kernels on non-GPU accelerators is very welcome. 🙌Organizations
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🚀 We pretrained a language model from scratch on an inference-only NPU, with real backpropagation.
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/VKORE-46M-NPU 📝 Technical write-up: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/backpropagation-on-an-inference-only-npu-pretraini
"NPUs are inference-only, you can't train on them." We built a counterexample: VKORE-46M-NPU, trained from scratch on a first-gen (2025) inference NPU, 32 chips, no pretrained weights. A 46M decoder-only model (RoPE · SwiGLU · RMSNorm · GQA), char-level, TinyStories.
📏 Why trust it: a falling-loss curve proves nothing. So we trained the same model under identical init, data, and schedule on the NPU and on a GPU reference. · Loss trajectories correlate at 0.99 · Throughput converged to a comparable level The NPU backward pass and optimizer updates do numerically the same work as the GPU, not an approximation that merely trends down.
🧩 One accelerator now covers pretraining · LoRA · inference · quantization. We call this layer VKORE: "CUDA for NPUs."
⚖️ Public: weights, model card, NPU-vs-GPU comparison. Private (patent-pending, paper to follow): the core training technique. 46M char-level is toy scale on purpose: it proves the training path, not model quality. Larger models and real data are next.
Feedback from folks working on custom autograd backends and low-precision training kernels on non-GPU accelerators is very welcome. 🙌
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/VKORE-46M-NPU 📝 Technical write-up: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/backpropagation-on-an-inference-only-npu-pretraini
"NPUs are inference-only, you can't train on them." We built a counterexample: VKORE-46M-NPU, trained from scratch on a first-gen (2025) inference NPU, 32 chips, no pretrained weights. A 46M decoder-only model (RoPE · SwiGLU · RMSNorm · GQA), char-level, TinyStories.
📏 Why trust it: a falling-loss curve proves nothing. So we trained the same model under identical init, data, and schedule on the NPU and on a GPU reference. · Loss trajectories correlate at 0.99 · Throughput converged to a comparable level The NPU backward pass and optimizer updates do numerically the same work as the GPU, not an approximation that merely trends down.
🧩 One accelerator now covers pretraining · LoRA · inference · quantization. We call this layer VKORE: "CUDA for NPUs."
⚖️ Public: weights, model card, NPU-vs-GPU comparison. Private (patent-pending, paper to follow): the core training technique. 46M char-level is toy scale on purpose: it proves the training path, not model quality. Larger models and real data are next.
Feedback from folks working on custom autograd backends and low-precision training kernels on non-GPU accelerators is very welcome. 🙌
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⚛️ The Open Quantum Challenge is live. Both seasons open today.
Quantum computers are expensive, queued, and reachable by only a few. So we removed the barrier. With a single GPU and a public harness, anyone can contribute to core quantum-computing problems with no quantum hardware at all. That is the point of this challenge: to move quantum research from a handful of labs to everyone.
• Season 1, Quantum simulation: reproduce a target quantum system on a GPU.
• Season 2, QEC decoder: correct errors on coded quantum states.
Answers are held privately and every submission is auto-scored against a frozen ground truth, so the ranking is reproducible and hardware-independent.
🏆 Prize: 2,000 USD total (1,000 USD per season, 🥇600 / 🥈300 / 🥉100)
Getting started takes one step: copy the participation guide from the Space and paste it into Codex or Claude Code, then submit against the harness.
📄 Read the article: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/the-open-quantum-challenge-quantum-simulation-and
👉 Challenge: FINAL-Bench/open-quantum-challenge
Quantum computers are expensive, queued, and reachable by only a few. So we removed the barrier. With a single GPU and a public harness, anyone can contribute to core quantum-computing problems with no quantum hardware at all. That is the point of this challenge: to move quantum research from a handful of labs to everyone.
• Season 1, Quantum simulation: reproduce a target quantum system on a GPU.
• Season 2, QEC decoder: correct errors on coded quantum states.
Answers are held privately and every submission is auto-scored against a frozen ground truth, so the ranking is reproducible and hardware-independent.
🏆 Prize: 2,000 USD total (1,000 USD per season, 🥇600 / 🥈300 / 🥉100)
Getting started takes one step: copy the participation guide from the Space and paste it into Codex or Claude Code, then submit against the harness.
📄 Read the article: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/the-open-quantum-challenge-quantum-simulation-and
👉 Challenge: FINAL-Bench/open-quantum-challenge
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💻 Data-center AI, now on a laptop: POCKET-Darwin-180B
We're releasing a 4-bit GGUF build of Darwin-180B-RSI, #1 on seven official Hugging Face leaderboards (self-reported), that runs without a GPU.
📦 360 GB → 111 GB (4-bit GGUF, 4 files)
🖥️ No GPU: one server CPU (16 threads) at 18.4–21.0 tokens/s
💻 RTX 5060 laptop (8 GB VRAM) + 32 GB RAM: 4.17 tokens/s
🧊 128 GB mini PC: whole model in memory, no GPU needed
🎯 MMLU-Pro, 2,000 questions, paired: original 87.65% = 4-bit 87.65%
How?
· Only ~3B of 180B parameters are active per token (10 of 512 experts)
· llama.cpp streams just the needed experts from SSD, so 32 GB RAM is enough
· Graft quantization: we took the proven Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL base build and swapped in only the 300 tensors our RSI training changed (300/300 verified)
Under the hood is Model-level Recursive Self-Improvement. The model solves verifiable problems, keeps only its own solutions that check out as correct, and trains on them. No human-written solutions or reasoning traces.
Built for teams that can't send data to an external cloud (defense, finance, public sector) to run a top-tier model fully offline.
📝 Article: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/data-center-ai-now-on-a-laptop-pocket-darwin-180b
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF
🧬 Original: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-180B-RSI
#Darwin #RSI #GGUF #llamacpp #OnDevice #MoE
We're releasing a 4-bit GGUF build of Darwin-180B-RSI, #1 on seven official Hugging Face leaderboards (self-reported), that runs without a GPU.
📦 360 GB → 111 GB (4-bit GGUF, 4 files)
🖥️ No GPU: one server CPU (16 threads) at 18.4–21.0 tokens/s
💻 RTX 5060 laptop (8 GB VRAM) + 32 GB RAM: 4.17 tokens/s
🧊 128 GB mini PC: whole model in memory, no GPU needed
🎯 MMLU-Pro, 2,000 questions, paired: original 87.65% = 4-bit 87.65%
How?
· Only ~3B of 180B parameters are active per token (10 of 512 experts)
· llama.cpp streams just the needed experts from SSD, so 32 GB RAM is enough
· Graft quantization: we took the proven Unsloth UD-Q4_K_XL base build and swapped in only the 300 tensors our RSI training changed (300/300 verified)
Under the hood is Model-level Recursive Self-Improvement. The model solves verifiable problems, keeps only its own solutions that check out as correct, and trains on them. No human-written solutions or reasoning traces.
Built for teams that can't send data to an external cloud (defense, finance, public sector) to run a top-tier model fully offline.
📝 Article: https://huggingface.co/blog/FINAL-Bench/data-center-ai-now-on-a-laptop-pocket-darwin-180b
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/POCKET-Darwin-180B-GGUF
🧬 Original: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-180B-RSI
#Darwin #RSI #GGUF #llamacpp #OnDevice #MoE
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