OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B: A 2.52B Dense Model Averaging 53.9 Across 34 Benchmarks and Built to Run On Device
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, the second checkpoint in the MiniCPM5 series and the follow-up to MiniCPM5-1B. It is a dense causal language model with 2,516,756,480 parameters, of which 1,981,982,720 sit outside the embeddings. It uses 42 layers, grouped-query attention with 16 query heads and 2 key/value heads, and a native context window of 131,072 tokens. The architecture is standard LlamaForCausalLM, so mainstream engines load it with no custom kernels and no model-code fork. Is it de
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a small language model with 2.52 billion parameters that can run on devices using standard software frameworks without requiring custom modifications. The model averages a score of 53.9 across 34 benchmarks, performing particularly well on tool use and coding tasks while being weaker on general knowledge compared to larger models. It was trained using a three-stage approach combining supervised fine-tuning on 400 billion tokens, specialized reinforcement learning teachers for different task types, and a final on-policy distillation step that merges multiple expert models. The release includes the model weights under an open license along with the training datasets and intermediate checkpoints, allowing others to verify the development process and reproduce results.
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