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MiniCPM4

MiniCPM4 is an open-weight language model from openbmb, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

LLMs openbmb 2 variants 42k downloads/mo
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What MiniCPM4 is

👋 Join us on <a href="https://discord.gg/3cGQn9b3YM" target="blank"Discord</a and <a href="https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM/blob/main/assets/wechat.jpg" target="blank"WeChat</a What's New - [2025.06.06] MiniCPM4 series are released! This model achieves ultimate efficiency improvements while maintaining optimal performance at the same scale! It can achieve over 5x generation acceleration on typical end-side chips! You can find technical report here.🔥🔥🔥 MiniCPM4 Series MiniCPM4 series are highly efficient large language models (LLMs) designed explicitly for end-side devices, which achieves this efficiency through systematic innovation in four key dimensions: model architecture, training data, training algorithms, and inference systems. - MiniCPM4-8B: The flagship of MiniCPM4, with 8B parameters, trained on 8T tokens. - MiniCPM4-0.5B: The small version of MiniCPM4, with 0.5B parameters, trained on 1T tokens. (<-- you are here) - MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec: Eagle head for FRSpec, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B. - MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-FRSpec-QAT-cpmcu: Eagle head trained with QAT for FRSpec, efficiently integrate speculation and quantization to achieve ultra acceleration for MiniCPM4-8B. - MiniCPM4-8B-Eagle-vLLM: Eagle head in vLLM format, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B. - MiniCPM4-8B-marlin-Eagle-vLLM: Quantized Eagle head for vLLM format, accelerating speculative inference for MiniCPM4-8B. - BitCPM4-0.5B: Extreme ternary quantization applied to MiniCPM4-0.5B compresses model parameters into ternary values, achieving a 90% reduction in bit width. - BitCPM4-1B: Extreme ternary quantization applied to MiniCPM3-1B compresses model parameters into ternary values, achieving a 90% reduction in bit width. - MiniCPM4-Survey: Based on MiniCPM4-8B, accepts users' quiries as input and autonomously generate trustworthy, long-form survey papers. - MiniCPM4-MCP: Based on MiniCPM4-8B, accepts users' queries and available MCP tools as input and autonomously calls relevant MCP tools to satisfy users' requirements. Introduction MiniCPM 4 is an extremely efficient edge-side large model that has undergone efficient optimization across four dimension

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makeropenbmb
TypeLanguage models
Parameters (lead)434M
Context32k tokens
Variants2
Runs withtransformers
Released2025-06-05
Popularity42k downloads / month
Likes289
LicenceOpen weights

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
MiniCPM4-0.5B434MBF16~1 GBWeights ↗
MiniCPM4-8B8.2BBF16~18.8 GBWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys minicpm4 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (minicpm4 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"minicpm4","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Languages

zh en

Tags

transformers safetensors text-generation conversational custom_code zh en minicpm

Papers

Licence

Open weights

Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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