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# MiniCPM

[MiniCPM](https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM) is a compact language model series from OpenBMB / Tsinghua University, designed to deliver strong performance at small parameter counts using model merging and continuous training techniques.

|                  |                                              |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Task**         | Text Generation                              |
| **Architecture** | `MiniCPMForCausalLM` / `MiniCPM3ForCausalLM` |
| **Parameters**   | 2B – 4B                                      |
| **HF Org**       | [openbmb](https://huggingface.co/openbmb)    |

## Available Models

* **MiniCPM3-4B** (`MiniCPM3ForCausalLM`): 4B
* **MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16** (`MiniCPMForCausalLM`): 2B, SFT
* **MiniCPM-2B-dpo-bf16** (`MiniCPMForCausalLM`): 2B, DPO

## Architectures

* `MiniCPMForCausalLM` — MiniCPM v1/v2
* `MiniCPM3ForCausalLM` — MiniCPM3

## Example HF Models

| Model          | HF ID                                                                               |
| -------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| MiniCPM 2B SFT | [`openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16`](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16) |
| MiniCPM3 4B    | [`openbmb/MiniCPM3-4B`](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM3-4B)                 |

## Try with NeMo AutoModel

Install NeMo AutoModel and follow the fine-tuning guide to configure a recipe for this model.

**1. Install** ([full instructions](/get-started/installation)):

```bash
pip install nemo-automodel
```

**2. Clone the repo** to get example recipes you can adapt:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel.git
cd Automodel
```

**3. Fine-tune** by adapting a base LLM recipe — override the model ID on the CLI:

```bash
automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/llama3_2/llama3_2_1b_squad.yaml \
  --model.pretrained_model_name_or_path <MODEL_HF_ID>
```

Replace `<MODEL_HF_ID>` with the model ID from **Example HF Models** above.

**1. Pull the container** and mount a checkpoint directory:

```bash
docker run --gpus all -it --rm \
  --shm-size=8g \
  -v $(pwd)/checkpoints:/opt/Automodel/checkpoints \
  nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo-automodel:26.04.00
```

**2.** The recipes are at `/opt/Automodel/examples/` — navigate there:

```bash
cd /opt/Automodel
```

**3. Fine-tune**:

```bash
automodel --nproc-per-node=8 examples/llm_finetune/llama3_2/llama3_2_1b_squad.yaml \
  --model.pretrained_model_name_or_path <MODEL_HF_ID>
```

See the [Installation Guide](/get-started/installation) and [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/sft-peft).

## Fine-Tuning

See the [LLM Fine-Tuning Guide](/recipes-e2e-examples/sft-peft).

## Hugging Face Model Cards

* [openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-2B-sft-bf16)
* [openbmb/MiniCPM3-4B](https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM3-4B)