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BananaMind SLM Digest – 2026-11-09
🚀 BananaMind-2.5-Pro released – a 138,971,520-parameter distilled model ( BananaMind/BananaMind-2.5-Pro). It scores 28.98 INT Index, up from 24.96 of BananaMind-2, after 300 distillation steps on 9,600 examples and 1.45M forward tokens. Built on BananaMind-2-Pro (trained on ~100B tokens, 184,954 steps) it keeps the 3,072-token context, digit-aware 32,768-token BPE tokenizer and full 24-layer architecture. Evaluation complete for ARC Easy, ARC Challenge, HellaSwag, PIQA, ArithMark-3. 🎯
🖼️ SurjoLabs/Surjo-Image published – a new image generation model ( SurjoLabs/Surjo-Image).
📚 Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan synthetic dataset article by Banaxi-Tech (and reposts by GODELEV, DedeProGames) – captures Japanese demographics & finance (https://huggingface.co/blog/Banaxi-Tech/nemotron-personas-finance-japan).
🧠 Higher-order pruning experts article – explains HOPE for retaining expert partners (https://huggingface.co/blog/Banaxi-Tech/higher-order-pruning-experts).
🗃️ SupraLabs/SupraTTS-exp-corpus dataset updated ( SupraLabs/SupraTTS-exp-corpus).
📊 Open_SLM_Leaderboard discussion space launched by AxiomicLabs ( AxiomicLabs/Open_SLM_Leaderboard).
🔧 BananaMind/BM3-Pro-Training repo updated ( BananaMind/BM3-Pro-Training).
💬 BananaMind README discussion in the Spaces ( BananaMind/README).
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🕒 Posted 09 Nov 2026, 19:31 CET. Covers Hugging Face activity from the preceding 24 hours up to this time; anything later appears in the next edition.
🚀 BananaMind-2.5-Pro released – a 138,971,520-parameter distilled model ( BananaMind/BananaMind-2.5-Pro). It scores 28.98 INT Index, up from 24.96 of BananaMind-2, after 300 distillation steps on 9,600 examples and 1.45M forward tokens. Built on BananaMind-2-Pro (trained on ~100B tokens, 184,954 steps) it keeps the 3,072-token context, digit-aware 32,768-token BPE tokenizer and full 24-layer architecture. Evaluation complete for ARC Easy, ARC Challenge, HellaSwag, PIQA, ArithMark-3. 🎯
🖼️ SurjoLabs/Surjo-Image published – a new image generation model ( SurjoLabs/Surjo-Image).
📚 Nemotron-Personas-Finance-Japan synthetic dataset article by Banaxi-Tech (and reposts by GODELEV, DedeProGames) – captures Japanese demographics & finance (https://huggingface.co/blog/Banaxi-Tech/nemotron-personas-finance-japan).
🧠 Higher-order pruning experts article – explains HOPE for retaining expert partners (https://huggingface.co/blog/Banaxi-Tech/higher-order-pruning-experts).
🗃️ SupraLabs/SupraTTS-exp-corpus dataset updated ( SupraLabs/SupraTTS-exp-corpus).
📊 Open_SLM_Leaderboard discussion space launched by AxiomicLabs ( AxiomicLabs/Open_SLM_Leaderboard).
🔧 BananaMind/BM3-Pro-Training repo updated ( BananaMind/BM3-Pro-Training).
💬 BananaMind README discussion in the Spaces ( BananaMind/README).
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🕒 Posted 09 Nov 2026, 19:31 CET. Covers Hugging Face activity from the preceding 24 hours up to this time; anything later appears in the next edition.