Resources
This repository contains the 1.7B biology Memory Decoder released
with Memory Decoder at Scale. It is a pretrained parametric long-term
memory that can be swapped into a compatible frozen language-model backbone.
This 1.7B memory was trained on the biology CPT corpus using retrieval-derived sparse target distributions. The released dataset contains the aligned CPT text, Qwen3-preprocessed data, and KNN distributions. In the paper, the 1.7B Qwen3-vocabulary domain memories are evaluated with frozen Qwen3 Base backbones from 0.6B to 14B.
This checkpoint is a memory component, not a standalone chat- or
instruction-tuned model. The memory and backbone must use compatible token IDs
and vocabularies.
Model details
Table with columns: Field, Value| Field | Value |
|---|
| Memory size | 1.7B class |
| Architecture/tokenizer family | Qwen3ForCausalLM memory; Qwen3 tokenizer/vocabulary |
| Domain | Biology |
| Evaluation benchmark | BioInst |
| Intended backbone | Frozen, tokenizer-compatible Qwen3 Base model |
| Release contents | Inference weights, configuration, and tokenizer files |
Usage
Install the matching environment from
LUMIA-Group/MemoryDecoder-at-Scale, then
set MODEL_PATH to a compatible frozen backbone and MEMDEC_PATH to this
repository:
MODEL_PATH=/path/to/compatible-base-model \
MEMDEC_PATH=Rubin-Wei/MemoryDecoder-Qwen3-1.7B-biology \
bash eval/opencompass/scripts/domain/evaluate_bioinst.sh
See the repository documentation and launcher for benchmark-specific options,
including interpolation weights and batch settings.
Intended use and limitations
This checkpoint is intended for research and evaluation in the biology
domain. Its outputs depend on the backbone, prompt, and interpolation settings.
Domain specialization does not guarantee factual correctness or safety, and the
model may inherit biases and errors from its training sources.
Citation
If you use this checkpoint, please cite:
@misc{wei2026memorydecoderscalepretrained,
title={Memory Decoder at Scale: A Pretrained, Parametric Long-Term Memory},
author={Rubin Wei and Jiaqi Cao and Jiarui Wang and Junming Zhang and Qipeng Guo and Bowen Zhou and Zhouhan Lin},
year={2026},
eprint={2607.27919},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27919},
}