Stemma Machinarum

Model · bloom-7b1

BLOOM 7B1

Developer: BigScience
Availability: available · checked 2026-09-24 · source

Raw record: /data/models/bloom-7b1.json

Fields

id
bloom-7b1
identifiers
huggingface
bigscience/bloom-7b1
developer
BigScience
release_date
2022-07-11partial · source
note:  Card: 'Release Date Estimate: Monday, 11.July.2022'.
weights_status
open
availability
available · checked 2026-09-24 · source
license
BigScience RAIL License v1.0 (open access with use restrictions)recorded · source
architecture
family
decoder_only
note
Card: 'Modified from Megatron-LM GPT2' (the Megatron codebase, not OpenAI's weights). Paper: ALiBi instead of position embeddings, plus a LayerNorm on the embedding layer. GeLU activation.
n_layers
30recorded · source
hidden_size
4096recorded · source
n_heads
32recorded · source
vocab_size
250680recorded · source
note:  Config vocab_size is 250880 (padded).
positional_encoding
ALiBi (attention bias by distance; no position embeddings)recorded · source
context_length
2048recorded · source
training_data
ROOTS corpus: 46 natural and 13 programming languages; 1.5TB of text, 350B unique tokens.recorded · source
techniques
transformer-decoder
alibi
primary_sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom-7b1/blob/6232703e399354503377bf59dfbb8397fd569e4a/README.md
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom-7b1/raw/6232703e399354503377bf59dfbb8397fd569e4a/config.json
record_history
date:2026-09-24 · change:created from primary sources (Phase 1 seed, batch 2) · by:wilson-pruitt + claude ·
date:2026-09-24 · change:availability checked and recorded · by:wilson-pruitt + claude ·

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