Architecture
- Llama (HF
LlamaForCausalLM) — RoPE, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, no biases, tied embeddings
- 12 layers · 768 hidden · 12 heads · 2048 FFN
- 1024 sequence length
- 110,119,680 parameters
Tokenizer
Joint byte-level BPE, 32,768 vocab, trained on a balanced 50M-char sample from
each of EN/NL/ZH. The same tokenizer is shared across all three languages (see
the data card for why a joint tokenizer is required: ZH is 6.8% Latin script).
Training
- Data:
BabyLM-community/babylm-eng + babylm-nld + babylm-zho
(BabyBabelLM 2026 100M tier). Full corpora loaded in memory and shuffled
(the Hub layout is category-clustered; streaming with reasonable buffers
produces a biased sample).
- Mixture: byte-premium-uniform — equal share of reference tokens per
language (1/3 each), achieved by deficit-driven selection, not uniform doc
sampling (mean doc sizes differ across languages).
- Optimizer: AdamW (β₁=0.9, β₂=0.95, wd=0.1), lr 6e-4, cosine to 10%, 100-step warmup
- Compute: 4× NVIDIA A10G (23 GB), bf16, DDP, micro-batch 16 × grad-accum 2 (eff. batch 128 sequences = 131k tokens/step)
- Tokens consumed at this checkpoint: 100,000,000 byte-premium-adjusted reference tokens
- Per-language epochs at this checkpoint: ≈1.0 each (within the BabyLM ≤10-epoch cap)
Revisions
The chck_{N}M revisions match the BabyLM eval pipeline's fast-eval naming:
chck_1M, chck_2M, ..., chck_9M, chck_10M, chck_20M, ..., chck_90M, chck_100M
Use revision=chck_NM to load any milestone. The default (main) is chck_100M.
How to evaluate
git clone https://github.com/babylm-org/babylm-evalcd babylm-eval/multilingualbash scripts/zeroshot_model.sh --model_name Shamima/babylm-2026-multilingual-uniform-100Mbash scripts/zeroshot_model_fast_all.sh --model_name Shamima/babylm-2026-multilingual-uniform-100M
Citation
@misc{babylm-2026-uniform, title = {BabyLM 2026 MultiLingual baseline (byte-premium-uniform)}, author = {Hossain, Shamima}, year = {2026}, url = {https://huggingface.co/Shamima/babylm-2026-multilingual-uniform-100M}}
Companion repo with audit, scaffold, and ablation configs:
https://github.com/silvererudite/bb-lm-challenge-sub