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Opt.Gear introduces a novel hybrid architecture combining convolutional mixing with local-global attention, specifically engineered to mitigate the exponential growth of KV-cache memory in long-context scenarios. By leveraging efficient training on curated subsets and releasing open weights for edge hardware like Qualcomm NPUs and Apple ANEs, this model prioritizes practical deployment speed and data efficiency over raw scale.
Opt.Gear Technical Report
arXiv:2608.01034v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Opt.Gear, a foundation model designed for efficient on-device deployment, real-tim inference, and strong task capability. It includes a dense model (1M, 270M, and 1B) with a context length of 64K. We designed a new hybrid architecture that combines a convolutional key-value gated mixer with local-global attention to reduce the KV-cache memory that tends to increase exponentially with long context. This architecture delivers up to X4.9 faster prefill and decoding speeds on the NPUs compared to models of a similar scale models. From a 2T tokens candidate corpus, Opt.Gear is trained on a curated 0.5T tokens subset without knowledge distillation. This is the most data-efficient of the existing foundation models. All models are released with open weights and deployment binaries for ONNX, Qualcomm NPU, and Apple ANE making Opt.Gear a practical base for edge applications that need fast, memory-efficient inference and strong task capabilities. Furthermore, to expand the ecosystem of on-device generative language models, we are introducing the Opt.Gear-1M that can be deployed on Micro-Controller Units (MCUs), a Tiny Language Model (TLM). Opt.Gear-1M is the first generative language model to achieve 20 TPS with W4A32 quantization on the ARM Cortex-M7 CPU of the STM32H747I-DISCO.
Title:Opt.Gear Technical Report
Abstract:We introduce this http URL, a foundation model designed for efficient on-device deployment, real-tim inference, and strong task capability. It includes a dense model (1M, 270M, and 1B) with a context length of 64K. We designed a new hybrid architecture that combines a convolutional key-value gated mixer with local-global attention to reduce the KV-cache memory that tends to increase exponentially with long context. This architecture delivers up to X4.9 faster prefill and decoding speeds on the NPUs compared to models of a similar scale models. From a 2T tokens candidate corpus, this http URL is trained on a curated 0.5T tokens subset without knowledge distillation. This is the most data-efficient of the existing foundation models. All models are released with open weights and deployment binaries for ONNX, Qualcomm NPU, and Apple ANE making this http URL a practical base for edge applications that need fast, memory-efficient inference and strong task capabilities. Furthermore, to expand the ecosystem of on-device generative language models, we are introducing the this http URL-1M that can be deployed on Micro-Controller Units (MCUs), a Tiny Language Model (TLM). this http URL-1M is the first generative language model to achieve 20 TPS with W4A32 quantization on the ARM Cortex-M7 CPU of the STM32H747I-DISCO.
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