Tokle-SPAB

Model Summary

Tokle-SPAB-3M is a decoder-only language model trained on 12B tokens, with 2.91M trainable parameters and 8.39M frozen SPAB parameters, for a total of 11.3M parameters. Its main architectural addition is SPAB (Static Pairwise Attention Bias), a frozen table of token-pair association scores built from Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) over the training corpus and added to the attention logits.

For every query-key pair, SPAB hashes the two token IDs into the table, pulls out their PMI value, multiplies it by a learned per-head scale, and adds it to the attention logits before softmax. The bias ignores position and depends only on which tokens are involved, so the model starts training already knowing which tokens tend to co-occur. It only has to learn how much to trust that prior.

Model Architecture

How to use

This model uses a custom architecture, so it needs trust_remote_code=True.

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
model_id = "techdotus/Tokle-SPAB-3M"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True).eval()

ids = tok("The climate change", return_tensors="pt")
with torch.no_grad():
    out = model.generate(**ids, max_new_tokens=32, do_sample=False, repetition_penalty=1.3)  # greedy
print(tok.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Benchmark Results

All scores are 0-shot acc_norm, using the Open SLM Leaderboard methodology:

Training Data Details

We trained on a curated mixture with a strict cleaning pipeline that also removed topics not useful for a model of this size.

• Tokenizer: all data was tokenized with the model's 5,048-token BPE tokenizer, and 1% was held out for validation.
• Blending: sources were blended per dataset using the weights above.

Limitations

• Tiny model: with ~2.9M trainable parameters, ~8.39M frozen SPAB parameters and 144-dim hidden states, generations are often repetitive, incoherent or factually wrong. The model is a research artifact for studying small-scale LMs, not an assistant.
• Short context: 512 tokens maximum. RoPE tables are not built beyond that length.
• English only: trained on English web, educational, synthetic and math text.
• Not instruction-tuned or safety-aligned: it may reproduce biases present in web data.

Licenses

Model weights and code: MIT.

Citation

@misc{tokle2026,
  title        = {{Tokle-SPAB-3M}: Pointwise Mutual Information as an Inductive Bias for Self-Attention},
  author       = {{Tech.us Team}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/techdotus/Tokle-SPAB-3M}}
}