Inkling-Small

2026-07-30

Date the weights (or, if earlier, the technical report) were first made public, YYYY-MM-DD, as dated by the publisher. A Hugging Face repository creation date is used only when no dated publisher page exists, with a note.

apache-2.0

License of the released weights as declared by the publisher (model card metadata or license file), e.g. apache-2.0, mit, or the name of a custom license.

text + image + audio

Input modalities of the released checkpoint as the publisher states them, from: text, image, video, audio, joined with ' + ' in that order ("text", "text + image + video").

276B parameters

Total parameter count as reported by the publisher. See params.note for whether embeddings, MTP heads or vision towers are included.

12B parameters

Parameters used per token in the forward pass, as reported by the publisher.

Not disclosed

Active parameters excluding the input embedding and the output head (unembedding). Stated by the publisher, or computed from params.active by subtracting vocab × d_model for each of the embedding and output head that params.active is stated to include (basis inferred, note with the arithmetic). Not disclosed when the scope of params.active is not stated.

263.7B parameters

Calculated: embedding + output head + all experts + other weights, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small@8cc5877 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (MTP+other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Parameters of the text backbone counted from the released checkpoint's safetensors headers (embedding, output head, all experts and other weights; excluding MTP modules, vision/audio towers and n-gram lookup tables). Shown only when the counts reproduce the publisher's stated total and active parameters within 5% under some scope.

1.647B parameters

Calculated: input embedding + output head, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small@8cc5877 safetensors headers

Input embedding plus output head (once if tied), counted from the checkpoint.

262B parameters

Calculated: dense + routed backbone weights; excludes input embedding, output head, lookup tables, MTP and other modalities, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small@8cc5877 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (MTP+other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Language backbone weights excluding input embeddings, output head, lookup/Engram tables, MTP modules and vision/audio towers. Equals params.counted_total minus params.counted_embedding. Same validation as params.counted_total.

6.538B parameters

Calculated: max(sum of dense and routed weights sharing a full layers.<index> tensor path), all experts included, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small@8cc5877 safetensors headers

Largest group of language-backbone weights sharing a full layers.<index> tensor path, including every routed expert. Excludes lookup/Engram tables, embeddings, output head, MTP and other modalities. Hybrid checkpoints may store mixers and FFNs as separate layers. All-gather volume also depends on wrapping, sharding and dtype.

10.35B parameters

Calculated: non-expert weights + routed experts × 6/256, excluding embedding and output head, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small@8cc5877 safetensors headers; reproduces stated total (MTP+other modalities) and active (with embedding and output head)

Active parameters per token excluding the input embedding and output head, counted from the checkpoint as all non-expert weights plus routed-expert weights × top_k / experts. Same validation as params.counted_total.

42

Number of transformer blocks in the main backbone (attention or token mixer plus FFN), excluding MTP modules.

4,096

Residual stream width.

201,024

Embedding table rows (vocab_size in config, may include padding).

No

Input embedding and output head share weights.

97.5238

Calculated: d_model / layers

Width-to-depth ratio, d_model divided by the number of blocks.

GQA, SWA

Token-mixing layer types in the backbone, e.g. GQA, MLA, SWA, Gated DeltaNet, Mamba-2, DSA (DeepSeek sparse attention).

5 SWA : 1 global

Inferred from the source; see the explanation below.

Token-mixer order, summarized as a pattern or layer positions. The fact's optional sequence lists each mixer in order; a ratio alone does not establish the order. Auxiliary prediction modules and standalone FFNs are excluded.

7

Inferred from the source; see the explanation below.

Layers whose KV cache grows with full context (dense or sparse global attention, MLA). Excludes sliding-window and linear/recurrent layers.

5

Calculated: attn.local_layers / attn.global_layers

attn.local_layers divided by attn.global_layers, the sliding-window to global interleave ratio (5 for '5 SWA : 1 global').

35

Layers with a fixed attention window.

32

Query heads in the global-attention layers.

8

Key/value heads in the global-attention layers. Not applicable to MLA, whose cache is a shared latent.

4,096

Calculated: heads × head_dim

attn.heads × attn.head_dim, the query projection width of global layers.

4

Calculated: heads / kv_heads

attn.heads divided by attn.kv_heads in global layers.

128

Query/key dimension per head in global-attention layers (for MLA, nope + rope dims).

512 tokens

Sliding-window size of the local layers.

8

KV heads in sliding-window layers (stated even when equal to attn.kv_heads).

32

Query heads in sliding-window layers (stated even when equal to attn.heads).

128

Query/key head dimension in sliding-window layers. Value head dimensions may differ; see attn.local_v_head_dim.

relative position bias (learned, hidden-state-conditioned, all layers)

Positional scheme in global layers: RoPE, partial RoPE, NoPE, or mixed per layer type.

Yes

Queries and keys are normalized per head before the dot product.

1/head_dim; global layers scale queries and position bias by 1 + 0.1·ln(max((pos+1)/128000, 1))

Query-key scaling when it is not 1/sqrt(head_dim), e.g. query_pre_attn_scalar, length-dependent (SSMax-style) scaling, or value scaling.

No

Query/key/value projections have bias terms.

4

Kernel size of the causal short convolution in linear / SSM layers or attention projections.

SwiGLU

FFN activation (SwiGLU, GeGLU, ...).

16,384

Intermediate width of the dense FFN layers that are actually executed.

No

FFN projections have bias terms.

4

Calculated: ffn.dim / d_model

ffn.dim divided by shape.d_model.

256

Routed experts per MoE layer.

6

Routed experts selected per token.

2

Always-on experts per MoE layer.

2,048

Intermediate width of one routed expert.

4,096

Inferred from the source; see the explanation below.

Total intermediate width of the shared expert(s).

2

Number of initial blocks that use a dense FFN instead of MoE.

sigmoid

Gating function over expert logits (softmax, sigmoid).

expert-score correction bias on top-k selection

Load-balancing method, with coefficients where disclosed.

8

Multiplier applied to the combined routed-expert output (routed_scaling_factor).

Yes

Selected expert weights are renormalized to sum to 1.

0.5

Calculated: moe.expert_dim / d_model

moe.expert_dim divided by shape.d_model.

42.6667

Calculated: experts / top_k

Routed experts divided by experts selected per token.

0.0434783

Calculated: params.active / params.total

params.active divided by params.total.

Not disclosed

Additional future tokens predicted during pretraining (0 when the model was trained without MTP).

Yes

The released checkpoint contains the MTP module weights.

RMSNorm

Normalization layer type in the blocks.

pre

Pre-norm, post-norm, or sandwich (pre and post).

1e-06

Epsilon of the block normalization layers.

RMSNorm after embedding

Scaling or normalization applied to input embeddings (e.g. × sqrt(d_model), RMSNorm after embedding).

final hidden state ÷ 16 before the LM head

Scaling applied to output logits other than a softcap (e.g. muP-style width multiplier).

Not disclosed

Sequence length of the main pretraining stage.

Not disclosed

Longest sequence length trained on after context extension.

1.049M tokens

Longest context the publisher says the model supports, possibly beyond trained length via RoPE scaling.

Not disclosed

Tokens seen in pretraining including annealing and context extension, as reported.

Not disclosed

Optimizer used for the bulk of parameters.

Not disclosed

Peak learning rate of the main pretraining stage.

Not disclosed

Learning rate at the end of the decay.

Not disclosed

Learning-rate schedule shape with phase boundaries.

Not disclosed

Warmup length in steps or tokens.

Not disclosed

Global batch size, including any batch-size ramp: sequences × sequence length (token total), or the token total alone when only that is stated.

Not disclosed

Decoupled weight decay coefficient.

Not disclosed

(beta1, beta2) of the Adam-family optimizer or its AdamW fallback.

Not disclosed

Global gradient-norm clipping threshold.

Not disclosed

Matmul precision of pretraining (BF16, FP8 recipe, NVFP4 recipe) with the scaling granularity where disclosed. Never inferred from the released checkpoint dtype.

text, images, audio, video

Pretraining data composition as disclosed (domain shares, synthetic fraction, repetition).

NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Accelerators used for pretraining, count and duration where stated.

GB300

Accelerator count and type for the main pretraining run, as the count with thousands separators and the chip's short name ("2,048 H800", "2,048 GH200"). A stated range or bound stays as stated ("2,048–4,096 GH200").

μP (final hidden state ÷ 16 width multiplier before the LM head)

Width/depth parametrization used to transfer hyperparameters: SP (standard), μP, CompleteP, u-μP, depth-μP, with the multipliers that differ from SP. Only when stated.

29,232 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_at_context / 131072 tokens; uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 7 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry; SWA KV: 35 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Retained KV cache divided by context length, including bounded SWA caches and indexer keys. Exports use uniform BF16 at 131,072 tokens. The website can select uniform payload precision (no quantization overhead) or sourced component formats (including scales and documented padding). This is cache payload, not peak prefill memory or persistent prefix storage.

28,672 bytes

Calculated: 28672 B / 1 tokens (Global KV); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 7 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry; SWA KV: 35 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Long-context global KV bytes per token, including indexer keys; excludes bounded SWA caches. Compression rates and cross-layer cache reuse are included. Exports use uniform BF16; the website's storage selector also applies here. This is the field to compare with global-KV figures in reports, using the matching storage recipe.

2,436 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_per_token (131072 tokens) / (params.active / 1e9); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 7 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry; SWA KV: 35 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

kv.bytes_per_token divided by active parameters in billions (131,072 tokens in exports).

319,291,392 bytes

Calculated: kv.bytes_at_context (131072 tokens) / (params.active / 1e9); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 7 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry; SWA KV: 35 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

kv.bytes_at_context divided by active parameters in billions (131,072 tokens in exports).

3,831,496,704 bytes

Calculated: 28672 B × 131072 (Global KV) + 143360 B × min(131072, 512) (SWA KV); uniform BF16, payload only; quantization overhead excluded. Global KV: 7 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry; SWA KV: 35 × (2048 × 16/8) B/entry

Retained KV cache for one sequence at the selected context, including SWA windows and indexer keys. Exports use uniform BF16 at 131,072 tokens. Excludes recurrent state, compressor tail state, draft/MTP caches, temporary prefill tensors, allocator metadata and persistent prefix snapshots. Does not estimate peak prefill or total serving memory.

26

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 of the post-trained model, from a dated Wayback snapshot of its Artificial Analysis page. The note names the variant (reasoning setting).