Add model card, config, tokenizer, and architecture code

README.md

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+---
+license: mit
+language:
+  - he
+  - ar
+  - fa
+  - en
+tags:
+  - multilingual
+  - semitic
+  - hebrew
+  - arabic
+  - farsi
+  - decoder-only
+  - from-scratch
+  - cross-lingual-transfer
+datasets:
+  - oscar-corpus/OSCAR-2301
+  - wikimedia/wikipedia
+  - allenai/c4
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+model-index:
+  - name: SemiticGPT-3B
+    results:
+      - task:
+          type: text-generation
+          name: Language Modeling
+        metrics:
+          - name: BPB Hebrew
+            type: bpb
+            value: 0.876
+          - name: BPB Arabic
+            type: bpb
+            value: 0.726
+          - name: BPB Farsi
+            type: bpb
+            value: 0.657
+          - name: BPB English
+            type: bpb
+            value: 0.964
+---
+
+# SemiticGPT-3B
+
+A 3.04-billion parameter multilingual decoder-only language model trained **from scratch** for Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and English — a Semitic-centered language cluster.
+
+## Model Description
+
+SemiticGPT is trained from scratch (no fine-tuning of existing models) with a custom balanced tokenizer designed for multi-script coverage. The model demonstrates meaningful cross-lingual semantic transfer between linguistically related languages.
+
+| Property | Value |
+|----------|-------|
+| Parameters | 3.04B |
+| Architecture | Decoder-only Transformer |
+| Layers | 36 |
+| Hidden dim | 2,560 |
+| Attention heads | 20 (head dim 128) |
+| Vocabulary | 32,768 (custom BPE) |
+| Sequence length | 2,048 |
+| Position encoding | RoPE |
+| Activation | SwiGLU |
+| Normalization | RMSNorm |
+| Training tokens | ~20B |
+| Training cost | ~$1,456 (AWS spot instances) |
+
+## Key Results
+
+### Cross-lingual Sentiment Transfer (Headline Result)
+
+Training on **Hebrew sentiment data only** improves Arabic sentiment accuracy from 5.5% → 49% (9× improvement) with **zero Arabic task data**. This demonstrates emergent cross-lingual transfer between Semitic languages.
+
+Critically, Farsi (which shares Arabic script but belongs to a different language family) shows no comparable transfer (0.5% → 1.5%), suggesting linguistic family relatedness matters more than script similarity.
+
+### Language Modeling (BPB)
+
+| Language | Base | D-SFT |
+|----------|------|-------|
+| Hebrew | 0.879 | 0.876 |
+| Arabic | 0.731 | 0.726 |
+| Farsi | 0.663 | 0.657 |
+| English | 0.972 | 0.964 |
+
+### Cross-lingual Retrieval
+
+90% accuracy on EN↔HE cross-lingual retrieval (10-way, chance=10%) — emerging purely from multilingual pretraining without any alignment objective.
+
+### Translation
+
+Best: 18.7% chrF for AR→FA with direct parallel data. Key finding: English-mediated parallel data does NOT enable direct translation between non-English pairs.
+
+## Files
+
+| File | Size | Description |
+|------|------|-------------|
+| `best_model.pt` | 12.5 GB | Pretrained base model (3.04B params) |
+| `sft_model.pt` | 6 GB | SFT model (D-baseline: 5K steps, all 4 langs) |
+| `multilingual_32k.model` | 817 KB | SentencePiece tokenizer |
+| `multilingual_32k.vocab` | 551 KB | Tokenizer vocabulary |
+| `config.json` | - | Model configuration |
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+import torch
+import sentencepiece as spm
+
+# Load tokenizer
+sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+sp.Load("multilingual_32k.model")
+
+# Load model (custom architecture — see model_arch.py)
+from model_arch import GPT
+
+model = GPT(
+    vocab_size=32768, dim=2560, n_layers=36,
+    n_heads=20, head_dim=128, max_seq_len=2048
+)
+
+# Load SFT checkpoint
+ckpt = torch.load("sft_model.pt", map_location="cuda")
+model.load_state_dict(ckpt)
+model = model.cuda().half().eval()
+
+# Generate
+prompt = "<|user|>\nמה הבירה של ישראל?\n<|assistant|>\n"
+tokens = sp.Encode(prompt)
+# ... (see repo for full generation code)
+```
+
+## Training Data
+
+| Language | Share | Sources |
+|----------|-------|---------|
+| Hebrew | 40% | Wikipedia, OSCAR, news, government docs |
+| Arabic | 25% | Wikipedia, OSCAR, news, UN corpus |
+| English | 20% | Wikipedia, OpenWebText, books |
+| Farsi | 15% | Wikipedia, OSCAR, news |
+
+Hebrew is intentionally overrepresented as the "anchor language" — strong anchor representations transfer to linguistically related languages.
+
+## Tokenizer
+
+Custom 32K BPE tokenizer trained on balanced 25%/language sample:
+- Hebrew fertility: 1.4 tokens/word
+- Arabic fertility: 1.5 tokens/word
+- Farsi fertility: 1.6 tokens/word
+- English fertility: 1.2 tokens/word
+
+(vs mBERT 2.5+ for Hebrew, LLaMA 3+ for Arabic)
+
+## Training Recipe
+
+- **Optimizer**: AdamW (β₁=0.9, β₂=0.95)
+- **Learning rate**: 3e-4, cosine decay
+- **Batch size**: 512K tokens
+- **Hardware**: AWS spot instances (L40S 48GB, H100 80GB)
+- **FSDP** for multi-GPU, gradient accumulation for single-GPU
+- **Recipe validated** via 32 proxy experiments at 110M scale
+
+## Limitations
+
+- 3B parameters — below threshold for complex reasoning (Belebele near chance)
+- Single-run results without confidence intervals
+- Farsi underperforms (15% data share + typological distance from Semitic)
+- Translation quality remains low (max 18.7% chrF)
+- Not competitive with frontier models — this is a research/recipe contribution
+
+## Paper
+
+**SemiticGPT: A Low-Cost Recipe for Multilingual Foundation Models in an Under-Resourced Semitic-Centered Language Cluster**
+
+Ronnen Slasky, Independent Researcher, April 2026
+
+## Code
+
+Full training pipeline, evaluation scripts, and reproducibility artifacts:
+
+🔗 [GitHub: semitic-gpt](https://github.com/fatherRonnen/semitic-gpt)
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@article{slasky2026semiticgpt,
+  title={SemiticGPT: A Low-Cost Recipe for Multilingual Foundation Models in an Under-Resourced Semitic-Centered Language Cluster},
+  author={Slasky, Ronnen},
+  year={2026}
+}
+```
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+Built using the [autoresearch](https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch) methodology for proxy-scale recipe validation. Training infrastructure on AWS.

config.json

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+{
+  "model_type": "gpt",
+  "architectures": ["GPT"],
+  "vocab_size": 32768,
+  "hidden_size": 2560,
+  "num_hidden_layers": 36,
+  "num_attention_heads": 20,
+  "head_dim": 128,
+  "max_position_embeddings": 2048,
+  "intermediate_size": 6912,
+  "activation_function": "swiglu",
+  "normalization": "rmsnorm",
+  "position_encoding": "rope",
+  "total_params": "3.04B",
+  "tokenizer_type": "sentencepiece",
+  "tokenizer_vocab_size": 32768,
+  "bos_token": "<s>",
+  "eos_token": "</s>",
+  "pad_token": "<pad>",
+  "special_tokens": ["<|user|>", "<|assistant|>", "<s>", "</s>", "<pad>"],
+  "training": {
+    "optimizer": "AdamW",
+    "learning_rate": 3e-4,
+    "schedule": "cosine_decay",
+    "warmup_steps": 2000,
+    "batch_size_tokens": 524288,
+    "weight_decay": 0.1,
+    "gradient_clip": 1.0,
+    "precision": "fp16",
+    "total_tokens": "~20B"
+  }
+}

fertility_report.json

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+{
+  "model": "multilingual_32k",
+  "vocab_size": 32000,
+  "bos_id": 1,
+  "eos_id": 2,
+  "config": {
+    "character_coverage": 0.9995,
+    "model_type": "bpe",
+    "byte_fallback": true,
+    "split_digits": true,
+    "max_sentence_length": 16384,
+    "input_sentence_size": 10000000
+  },
+  "data_sources": {
+    "en": "allenai/c4 (en)",
+    "ar": "wikimedia/wikipedia (20231101.ar)",
+    "he": "wikimedia/wikipedia (20231101.he)",
+    "fa": "wikimedia/wikipedia (20231101.fa)"
+  },
+  "languages": {
+    "en": {
+      "num_tokens": 131858,
+      "num_bytes": 502591,
+      "num_words": 85508,
+      "num_chars": 500000,
+      "bytes_per_token": 3.81,
+      "tokens_per_word": 1.54
+    },
+    "ar": {
+      "num_tokens": 138572,
+      "num_bytes": 900643,
+      "num_words": 81698,
+      "num_chars": 500000,
+      "bytes_per_token": 6.5,
+      "tokens_per_word": 1.7
+    },
+    "he": {
+      "num_tokens": 150214,
+      "num_bytes": 876334,
+      "num_words": 81962,
+      "num_chars": 500000,
+      "bytes_per_token": 5.83,
+      "tokens_per_word": 1.83
+    },
+    "fa": {
+      "num_tokens": 129491,
+      "num_bytes": 902876,
+      "num_words": 91425,
+      "num_chars": 500000,
+      "bytes_per_token": 6.97,
+      "tokens_per_word": 1.42
+    }
+  },
+  "timestamp": "2026-04-01T14:12:42Z"
+}

model_arch.py

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+"""Shared model architecture for multilingual 3B GPT — must match training exactly."""
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+import math
+
+VOCAB_SIZE = 32000
+DIM = 3072
+DEPTH = 26
+N_HEADS = 24
+HEAD_DIM = DIM // N_HEADS  # 128
+MAX_SEQ_LEN = 2048
+ROPE_THETA = 10000.0
+HIDDEN_DIM = ((int(2 * DIM * 4 / 3) + 63) // 64) * 64  # SwiGLU hidden
+
+
+class RMSNorm(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, eps=1e-6):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.eps = eps
+        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim))
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        norm = x.float().pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True).add(self.eps).rsqrt()
+        return (x.float() * norm).type_as(x) * self.weight
+
+
+def precompute_freqs_cis(dim, max_seq_len, theta=ROPE_THETA):
+    freqs = 1.0 / (theta ** (torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / dim))
+    t = torch.arange(max_seq_len, dtype=torch.float32)
+    freqs = torch.outer(t, freqs)
+    return torch.polar(torch.ones_like(freqs), freqs)
+
+
+def apply_rotary_emb(x, freqs_cis):
+    # x: (B, n_heads, S, head_dim)
+    B, H, S, D = x.shape
+    x_complex = torch.view_as_complex(x.float().reshape(B, H, S, D // 2, 2))
+    freqs = freqs_cis[:S].unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(1)  # (1, 1, S, D//2)
+    x_rot = torch.view_as_real(x_complex * freqs).reshape(B, H, S, D)
+    return x_rot.type_as(x)
+
+
+class FusedAttention(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, n_heads):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.n_heads = n_heads
+        self.head_dim = dim // n_heads
+        self.qkv = nn.Linear(dim, 3 * dim, bias=False)
+        self.out_proj = nn.Linear(dim, dim, bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, x, freqs_cis, mask=None):
+        B, S, D = x.shape
+        qkv = self.qkv(x).reshape(B, S, 3, self.n_heads, self.head_dim)
+        q, k, v = qkv[:, :, 0], qkv[:, :, 1], qkv[:, :, 2]
+        q = q.transpose(1, 2)  # (B, H, S, D)
+        k = k.transpose(1, 2)
+        v = v.transpose(1, 2)
+        q = apply_rotary_emb(q, freqs_cis)
+        k = apply_rotary_emb(k, freqs_cis)
+        # Scaled dot-product attention
+        scale = math.sqrt(self.head_dim)
+        attn = (q @ k.transpose(-2, -1)) / scale
+        if mask is not None:
+            attn = attn + mask
+        attn = F.softmax(attn, dim=-1)
+        out = (attn @ v).transpose(1, 2).reshape(B, S, D)
+        return self.out_proj(out)
+
+
+class SwiGLUFFN(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, hidden_dim):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.w1 = nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=False)
+        self.w2 = nn.Linear(hidden_dim, dim, bias=False)
+        self.w3 = nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        return self.w2(F.silu(self.w1(x)) * self.w3(x))
+
+
+class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, n_heads, hidden_dim):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.attn_norm = RMSNorm(dim)
+        self.attn = FusedAttention(dim, n_heads)
+        self.ffn_norm = RMSNorm(dim)
+        self.ffn = SwiGLUFFN(dim, hidden_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, x, freqs_cis, mask=None):
+        x = x + self.attn(self.attn_norm(x), freqs_cis, mask)
+        x = x + self.ffn(self.ffn_norm(x))
+        return x
+
+
+class MultilingualGPT(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.tok_emb = nn.Embedding(VOCAB_SIZE, DIM)
+        self.layers = nn.ModuleList([
+            TransformerBlock(DIM, N_HEADS, HIDDEN_DIM) for _ in range(DEPTH)
+        ])
+        self.norm = RMSNorm(DIM)
+        self.head = nn.Linear(DIM, VOCAB_SIZE, bias=False)
+        # Tied embeddings
+        self.head.weight = self.tok_emb.weight
+        # Precompute RoPE
+        self.register_buffer('freqs_cis', precompute_freqs_cis(HEAD_DIM, MAX_SEQ_LEN))
+
+    def forward(self, tokens, targets=None):
+        B, S = tokens.shape
+        x = self.tok_emb(tokens)
+        mask = torch.triu(torch.full((S, S), float('-inf'), device=tokens.device), diagonal=1)
+        mask = mask.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(0)  # (1, 1, S, S)
+        for layer in self.layers:
+            x = layer(x, self.freqs_cis, mask)
+        x = self.norm(x)
+        logits = self.head(x)
+        loss = None
+        if targets is not None:
+            loss = F.cross_entropy(logits.view(-1, VOCAB_SIZE), targets.view(-1))
+        return logits, loss
+
+
+def load_model(path, device='cuda'):
+    """Load model from checkpoint, stripping prefixes."""
+    model = MultilingualGPT()
+    ckpt = torch.load(path, map_location='cpu', weights_only=False)
+    state = ckpt.get('model_state_dict', ckpt)
+    # Strip prefixes
+    cleaned = {}
+    for k, v in state.items():
+        new_k = k
+        for prefix in ['_orig_mod.', 'module.']:
+            if new_k.startswith(prefix):
+                new_k = new_k[len(prefix):]
+        cleaned[new_k] = v
+    # Handle tied weights - remove head.weight if present (will be tied)
+    if 'head.weight' in cleaned and 'tok_emb.weight' in cleaned:
+        if torch.equal(cleaned['head.weight'], cleaned['tok_emb.weight']):
+            del cleaned['head.weight']
+    model.load_state_dict(cleaned, strict=False)
+    model = model.to(device).eval()
+    return model
+
+
+def load_tokenizer(path):
+    """Load SentencePiece tokenizer."""
+    import sentencepiece as spm
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.Load(path)
+    return sp

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