SHADOW-50M-Instruct
SHADOW 50M Instruct: a proof of concept. 44M ternary parameters, exact circuits inside the model, memory on disk, 19.8 MB, offline on a CPU.
Details
- External ID
- 1371231327
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- SHADOW-50M-Instruct
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 29
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7161798616448886
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 19, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- lightweight and on-device AI runtimes
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- compact ternary parameter language model for offline cpu inference
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Creating a novel ternary-quantized 50M parameter language model with custom circuit architectures runnable directly from disk on CPU requires advanced deep learning and hardware-level systems research.
What it would actually take: Implementation requires custom deep learning research frameworks in PyTorch/C++/CUDA, custom quantization kernels (e.g., 1.58-bit ternary matrix multiplication like BitNet b1.58), and low-level memory-mapped disk I/O execution engines. Deep expertise in AI architectures, quantization theory, and low-level systems engineering is mandatory.
Competitors
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Launched 290 days after the earliest competitor.
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