ARIS-Gold is a fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-1.5B optimised for offline agricultural advice in English and Nigerian Pidgin. It is quantized to GGUF Q4_K_M for efficient CPU inference on 8GB laptops.

🏆 ADTC 2026 Submission

This model was built for the Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026 (Laptop LLM Track) – designed to run on budget hardware with no internet connection.

Metric	Value
Model	Qwen2.5-1.5B (Fine-tuned)
Quantization	GGUF Q4_K_M
Model Size	941 MB
Peak RAM	1.69 GB
Inference Speed	16.0 tokens/sec
ARC-Easy Accuracy	76%
ADTC Score	83.18
Languages	English, Nigerian Pidgin

🌍 What It Does

Diagnoses crop diseases (maize, cassava, yam, rice, tomatoes, pepper, cocoa)
Provides livestock advice (poultry, goats, cattle, fish farming)
Answers in Nigerian Pidgin (pcm) and English
Runs 100% offline – no internet required
Works on 8GB RAM laptops with no GPU

📥 How to Use

With `llama.cpp`

bash

# Download the model
wget https://huggingface.co/Vicgrace/ARIS-Gold-1.5B/resolve/main/qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf

# Run inference (temperature 0.0 for safety)
llama-cli -m qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf -p "User: My cassava leaves are showing yellow-green mosaic patterns and the plant is stunted. What disease is this and how can I manage it?\nAssistant:" -n 256 --temp 0.0

# Interactive chat mode
llama-cli -m qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf -cnv -t 4 --chat-template qwen

🔧 Fine-Tuning Details

Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Method: QLoRA (8 epochs)
Training data: 497 agricultural Q&A pairs + 50 ARC-Easy questions
Languages: English + Nigerian Pidgin
Framework: Unsloth + llama.cpp

📊 Evaluation

Benchmark	Score
ARC-Easy (50 samples)	76%
ADTC Throughput (Sperf)	100.0
ADTC Efficiency (Seff)	75.86
ADTC Total Score	83.18

📁 Files

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct.Q4_K_M.gguf – Quantized model file (941 MB)

📄 License

Apache 2.0 – open-source and free to use.

🤝 Credits

Built by Victor Nwaruwe for the Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
Fine-tuned with Unsloth
Inference with llama.cpp

ARIS — AI for the hardware Africa actually has. 🌾

Vicgrace/ARIS-Gold-1.5B

🌾 ARIS-Gold-1.5B