OLMo 3 1B — SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention and Matched Baseline
This repository contains the five checkpoints from the four-stage OLMo 3 1B
training pipeline for both:
- SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention, using Transformers remote code.
- The matched pure OLMo 3 baseline, using the official Transformers
Olmo3ForCausalLM implementation.
The standalone model repositories are linked below. The five modified
checkpoints are also grouped in the
SiameseNorm-DepthAttention collection.
Checkpoints
| Stage | Training sequence length | Model context capacity | SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention | Matched baseline |
|---|
| Stage 1 pretraining | 8,192 | 8,192 | stage1 | baseline-stage1 |
| Stage 2 mid-training | 8,192 | 8,192 | stage2 | baseline-stage2 |
| Stage 3 long-context training | 65,536 | 65,536 | stage3 | baseline-stage3 |
| Stage 4 Think SFT | 32,768 | 65,536 | stage4-think | baseline-stage4-think |
| Stage 4 Instruct SFT | 32,768 | 65,536 | stage4-instruct | baseline-stage4-instruct |
The same artifacts are also mirrored in this repository under:
| Variant | Hub subfolders |
|---|
| SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention | olmo3/1b/stage1, stage2, stage3, stage4/think, stage4/instruct |
| Matched baseline | olmo3/1b/baseline/stage1, stage2, stage3, stage4/think, stage4/instruct |
Stage 3 and Stage 4 apply YaRN only to Full-Attention layers. SWA layers
retain the original RoPE and a 4,096-token window.
Loading SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention
The modified checkpoints require trust_remote_code=True. SDPA is the
release-validated BF16 backend.
1import torch
2from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
3
4repo_id = "ArchSpace-Collection/SiameseNorm-DepthAttention"
5subfolder = "olmo3/1b/stage4/instruct"
6
7tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
8 repo_id,
9 subfolder=subfolder,
10 trust_remote_code=True,
11 fix_mistral_regex=False,
12)
13model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
14 repo_id,
15 subfolder=subfolder,
16 trust_remote_code=True,
17 dtype=torch.bfloat16,
18 attn_implementation="sdpa",
19)
Loading the matched baseline
The baseline checkpoints require transformers>=4.57.6,<5 and use the
official OLMo 3 implementation without remote code.
1import torch
2from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
3
4repo_id = "ArchSpace-Collection/SiameseNorm-DepthAttention"
5subfolder = "olmo3/1b/baseline/stage4/instruct"
6
7tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
8 repo_id,
9 subfolder=subfolder,
10 fix_mistral_regex=False,
11)
12model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
13 repo_id,
14 subfolder=subfolder,
15 dtype=torch.bfloat16,
16 attn_implementation="sdpa",
17)
fix_mistral_regex=False is intentional and preserves the tokenizer behavior
used during training.
Preliminary matched evaluation
The modified model converged faster during the early portion of training, but
the final eight-task objective-evaluation averages are nearly tied. The
modified Instruct-SFT checkpoint scores 36.9, compared with 36.8 for
the matched OLMo 3 baseline.
| Benchmark | Matched OLMo 3 1B baseline | SiameseNorm + Depth-Attention | Difference |
|---|
| BBH | 37.3 | 38.9 | +1.6 |
| DROP | 36.2 | 31.3 | -4.9 |
| GSM8K | 53.5 | 51.5 | -2.0 |
| IFEval (loose) | 63.6 | 70.1 | +6.5 |
| MATH | 8.0 | 10.0 | +2.0 |
| MMLU | 44.8 | 40.6 | -4.2 |
| PopQA | 11.3 | 9.6 | -1.7 |
| TruthfulQA | 40.0 | 43.2 | +3.2 |
| 8-task macro average | 36.8 | 36.9 | +0.1 |
The 1B result supports an early-convergence benefit but does not yet establish
a substantial final downstream-quality improvement. The modified 3B
experiment is still training, and the 7B experimental plan is suspended.
Architecture
Both variants share the OLMo 3 1B backbone:
- 16 transformer layers
- hidden size 2,048
- intermediate size 8,192
- 16 query heads and 16 key/value heads
- 128-dimensional attention heads
[SWA, SWA, SWA, Full] attention pattern
- 4,096-token sliding window
- reordered RMSNorm
The modified variant additionally enables SiameseNorm and sparse cross-layer
Depth-Attention. The baseline disables both modifications.
The Hugging Face artifacts are intended for inference and generation. Exact
continuation of the native distributed training objective should use the
accompanying MindSpeed/Megatron training pipeline.