Model details
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| Architecture | Mamba (selective SSM) |
| Parameters | ~50M |
| Context length | 512 tokens |
| Tokenizer | GPT-NeoX-20B (BPE, ~50k vocab) — the same tokenizer used by the original state-spaces/mamba-* models |
| Language | English |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
Limitations
- Pretrained only. No fine-tuning, instruction tuning, or alignment. It does not follow instructions and has no safety filtering; it simply continues text.
- Small. At ~50M parameters it has limited fluency and reasoning; expect frequent hallucination and repetition.
- English only. Trained solely on English Wikipedia; other languages are out of distribution.
- Domain-narrow. Only Wikipedia was used as training data.
Training data
Pretrained on the English subset of Wikipedia: over 3 million articles.
Training procedure
Table with columns: Hyperparameter, Value| Hyperparameter | Value |
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| Learning rate | 5e-4 |
| Sequence length | 512 |
| Batch size | 64 |
| Tokenizer | GPT-NeoX-20B (EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b) |
| Optimizer | AdamW |
| LR schedule / warmup | constant / 10000 |
| Total tokens seen |
Evaluation
Evaluated on a held-out set of 10,000 Wikipedia articles that were not seen during training.
The training and evaluation loss curves are shown below.

Citation
If you use this model, please cite the Mamba paper:
@article{gu2023mamba,
title={Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces},
author={Gu, Albert and Dao, Tri},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00752},
year={2023}
}