Get Involved

OpenCerebral is a one-person project with public artifacts, which means the most useful contributions are the ones that need no coordination.

Run the models and report what breaks

Small models fail in specific, reproducible ways. If you find a failure mode worth documenting — a prompt shape that reliably collapses into repetition, a chat template that misbehaves in a particular runtime, a GGUF quant that degrades much worse than expected — that is directly useful. See Bugs.

Evaluate us with data we did not write

This is the highest-value thing anyone can do for this project, and the arithmax result is why. Held-out splits written by the same author who wrote the training data cannot detect distribution-level specialization. Independent evaluation can. If you maintain a private benchmark set, we would like our models run against it.

Finetune something

Everything is Apache 2.0 with no field-of-use restrictions. The base models are deliberately small enough to finetune on consumer hardware in hours. If you build something on top of Boris or littlerock, we would like to know so we can link it.

Reproduce a run

The token counts, datasets, architectures, and wall-clock times are published precisely so that someone with an RTX 3060 can check them. A reproduction that disagrees with our numbers is a bug report we want.

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