Model Details
Table with columns: Property, Value| Property | Value |
|---|
| Developed by | Rocky Singh Rajput |
| Model type | Causal Language Model |
| Architecture | Custom (from scratch) |
| Parameters | 0.5B |
| Precision | BF16 |
| Languages | All 22 official Indian languages |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| Trained from scratch | ✅ Yes — not a fine-tune |
Supported Languages
Indic-mobile covers all 22 languages recognized under the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution:
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu
Why Indic-mobile?
India has 1.4 billion people and 22 officially recognized languages — yet most language models were never built with this diversity in mind. Indic-mobile is designed to change that:
- Built from scratch — not a fine-tune or adapter on an existing English-centric model
- Truly multilingual — trained across all 22 Indian languages from the ground up
- Mobile-first — 0.5B parameters means it runs efficiently on edge devices and smartphones
- Open source — weights, architecture, and everything else, freely available
Usage
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_id = "RockySinghRajput/Indic-mobile"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_id,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
device_map="auto"
)
prompt = "भारत एक विविधताओं से भरा देश है।"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
Run with Ollama
ollama run hf.co/RockySinghRajput/Indic-mobile
Run with vLLM
vllm serve RockySinghRajput/Indic-mobile
Model Architecture
- Architecture: Custom (trained from scratch)
- Parameters: 0.5B
- Precision: BF16
- Training: Pretrained from scratch (no base model used)
- Objective: Causal language modeling across 22 Indic languages
Intended Uses
Direct Use
- Text generation in any of the 22 official Indian languages
- Multilingual Indic chatbots and assistants
- On-device / mobile NLP applications
- Low-resource language research and experimentation
Downstream Use
- Fine-tuning for specific Indic language tasks (classification, summarization, translation, QA)
- Integration into larger Indic NLP pipelines
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems for Indian language content
Out-of-Scope Use
- High-stakes decision making without human oversight
- Generation of harmful, misleading, or abusive content in any language
- Tasks requiring deep factual accuracy without verification
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
- As a small 0.5B model, it may struggle with complex reasoning or long-form generation compared to larger models
- Training data distribution across all 22 languages may not be perfectly balanced; lower-resource languages may underperform
- Like all language models, it may reflect biases present in the training data
- Not intended for use in safety-critical or high-stakes applications without further evaluation and fine-tuning
Recommendations
Users should evaluate the model on their specific use case and language before deployment, particularly for lower-resource Indic languages.
Evaluation
Formal benchmarks are in progress. Community evaluations and feedback are welcome — please open a Discussion to share results!
Citation
If you use Indic-mobile in your research or projects, please consider citing:
@misc{indic-mobile-2025,
author = {Rocky Singh Rajput},
title = {Indic-mobile: A 0.5B Language Model for All 22 Official Indian Languages},
year = {2025},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/RockySinghRajput/Indic-mobile}
}
Model Card Author
Rocky Singh Rajput
For questions, feedback, or collaboration, please open a Community Discussion.