Parameters
1.3B
Context Length
2K
Modality
Text
Architecture
Dense
KV Cache Rate
192 KB/tok
License
Apache-2.0
Release Date
29 Feb 2024
Knowledge Cutoff
Nov 2023
API Pricing (per 1M)
Self-hosted only
Precision
Context
Workload Memory: 3.48 GB
INT4 · 2048 context
Base Weights: 0.61 GB
KV Cache: 0.38 GB
Runtime & Graphs: 2.50 GB
1x NVIDIA L4 24GB
3.5 / 21.6 GB usable
1x RTX 3060 12GB
3.5 / 10.8 GB usable
Apple M4 24GB
3.5 / 18.0 GB usable
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Overall Rank
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Coding Rank
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CroissantLLM Base is a 1.3B parameter bilingual model trained with a strictly balanced 1:1 ratio of French and English tokens. Built on the Llama architecture with a custom tokenizer, it is optimized for high-performance deployment on consumer devices.
Attention
Attention Structure
Multi-Head Attention
Attention Heads
16
Key-Value Heads
16
Attention Head Dimension
128
Position Embedding
Absolute Position Embedding
RoPE Theta
10,000
Normalization
RMS Normalization
Activation Function
SwigLU
Dimensions
Hidden Dimension Size
2,048
Number of Layers
24
FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)
5,504
Tokenizer
Vocabulary Size
32,000
CroissantLLM is a bilingual French-English language model developed by French research institutions. The model is trained on a curated mix of French and English data to provide language understanding while preserving French linguistic heritage. It is designed for low-resource inference on consumer-grade hardware.