⚠️ RESEARCH PREVIEW — NOT MEDICAL ADVICE

Hakeem-7B is an experimental research model — in active research, not a finished product. It is NOT a medical device, NOT a clinical tool, and NOT a substitute for a qualified healthcare professional. It can and does produce confident but INCORRECT and potentially UNSAFE answers — including wrong drug information, wrong dosing, and mismanagement of emergencies. Do not use it to make any health decision. Always consult a licensed clinician. Released for research and evaluation only.

TL;DR

English — Hakeem-7B is an Arabic medical reasoning model by Vionex Digital Solutions, built on Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct. It reasons step-by-step before answering medical questions in Arabic (Modern Standard, Egyptian, Gulf) and English. On the MedAraBench Arabic-medical benchmark it beats every model in its 7–8B class, beats its own base model by +6.2 points, beats the 70B-parameter OpenBioLLM-70B medical specialist, and matches models 4–10× its size (ties the 27B–70B band). Reasoning quality (blind LLM-judge panel) ranks it above the 27B general model and both 70B medical models. It is a research preview only.

العربية — «حكيم-7B» نموذج ذكاء اصطناعي طبي عربي طوّرته شركة Vionex Digital Solutions، مبنيٌّ على Falcon-H1-7B. دُرِّب على التفكير خطوة بخطوة قبل الإجابة عن الأسئلة الطبية بالعربية (الفصحى والمصرية والخليجية) والإنجليزية. على معيار MedAraBench يتفوّق على جميع النماذج في فئته (7–8 مليار معامل)، ويتجاوز نموذجه الأساس بمقدار +6.2 نقطة، ويتفوّق على النموذج الطبي المتخصّص OpenBioLLM-70B، ويضاهي نماذج تكبره من 4 إلى 10 أضعاف. ⚠️ نموذج بحثي للتجربة فقط، وليس أداة طبية ولا بديلاً عن الطبيب المختص.

Model overview


Model	Hakeem-7B (حكيم-7B)
Developer	Vionex Digital Solutions
Base model	`tiiuae/Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct`
Architecture	Falcon-H1 hybrid Mamba-2 (SSM) + Attention decoder, 44 layers, hidden size 3072
Parameters	≈ 7.6 B (bf16, 4 safetensors shards ≈ 15.2 GB)
Max context	up to 256K positions (per base config; long-context not separately evaluated here)
Languages	Arabic (MSA · Egyptian · Gulf) + English
Domain	Medicine / basic medical science
Training	DAPT → SFT (chain-of-thought) → DPO → identity-card SFT
Inference mode	Think-first (reason, then answer) — the default and the evaluated mode
License	Falcon-LLM license (inherited from base)
Status	Research preview

Intended use

Research on Arabic medical NLP, reasoning, and domain adaptation of hybrid-SSM models.
Benchmarking and evaluation of Arabic medical question answering.
Education and exploration of medical reasoning with a human expert in the loop.

Out of scope (do not use for)

Any real clinical, diagnostic, triage, dosing, or treatment decision.
Patient-facing medical advice, or anything resembling a medical device.
High-stakes or autonomous deployment of any kind.

⚠️ One thing that IS the recipe — don't skip it

Use think-first mode (the default). Hakeem reasons step-by-step, then writes «الإجابة النهائية:» / "Final answer:". In answer-only mode it over-refuses and is weaker. All reported benchmark numbers are think-first.

Quick start

Think-first and the identity card are applied automatically by the chat template.

python

import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_id = "Vionex-digital/Hakeem-7B"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")

messages = [
    {"role": "user",
     "content": "مريض عنده ضغط مرتفع وسكري نوع 2، ما أنسب دواء لخفض الضغط ولماذا؟"}
]
# The identity card + think-first instruction are injected by chat_template.jinja.
inputs = tok.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(inputs, max_new_tokens=768, do_sample=False, temperature=None)
print(tok.decode(out[0][inputs.shape[-1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
# -> step-by-step reasoning, then «الإجابة النهائية: ...»

vLLM (fast eval / serving) and the convenience wrapper:

python

# Convenience helper (ships in deploy/hakeem_chat.py) — card + think-first handled for you:
from hakeem_chat import Hakeem
h = Hakeem("Vionex-digital/Hakeem-7B")
print(h.chat("ما الفرق بين السكري من النوع الأول والنوع الثاني؟"))   # mode="think" default; mode="direct" for answer-only

Falcon-H1 needs transformers >= 4.57 (developed on 4.57.6). For batched generation prefer vLLM; some transformers versions have batched-generation quirks on Falcon-H1 — use batch size 1 if you see degenerate output on raw HF batched calls.

Training pipeline

Hakeem is the base model carried through four stages. GRPO was explored but did not beat this stack on the clean benchmark and is not part of the released model.

Stage	What	Data	Purpose
0. Base	`Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct`	—	Hybrid Mamba/attention foundation
1. DAPT	Domain-adaptive pre-training	14,404 Arabic medical docs (~2.08M words), 3 epochs	Inject Arabic basic-medical-science knowledge
2. SFT	Supervised fine-tuning on chain-of-thought	9,714 think-first pairs distilled from Claude Opus 4.6 (decontaminated against the test set)	Teach step-by-step medical reasoning
3. DPO	Direct preference optimization (β = 0.1)	387 hard preference ("bleed") pairs	Sharpen answer selection / reduce failure modes
4. Identity-card SFT	Light identity install + served card	identity/jailbreak probes	Consistent "Hakeem / Vionex" identity

The +6.2-point capability gain comes primarily from DAPT + SFT + DPO; the identity stage is about who the model says it is, not medical capability (medical accuracy held, ≈ +0.5pt).

Training data

DAPT v2 corpus — 14,404 documents / ~2.08M words. An Arabic basic-medical-science corpus, generated and then critic-refined by an LLM judge for factual precision (≈ 68% clean / 29% minor issues / 2.5% major after refinement). Composition:

Topic	Share
Anatomy	26%
Physiology	14%
Biochemistry	12%
Physics	11%
Cell Biology	9%
Other (genetics, histology, microbiology, pharmacology, …)	28%

SFT — 9,714 think-first pairs distilled from Claude Opus 4.6 chain-of-thought, then decontaminated against the evaluation set (a 7.35% leak was found and removed before the released run). DPO — 387 hard preference pairs targeting the model's own residual error modes.

Architecture

Hakeem inherits Falcon-H1's hybrid design: every decoder block runs a Mamba-2 state-space mixer and attention heads in parallel, combining linear-time long-range mixing with attention's precision. Key dimensions (from config.json):


`model_type`	`falcon_h1` (`FalconH1ForCausalLM`)
Decoder layers	44
Hidden size	3072
Attention heads / KV heads	12 / 2 (grouped-query) · head dim 128
Mamba-2 SSM	state 256 · 24 heads · d_ssm 3072 · conv 4
MLP intermediate	12288 (SiLU)
Vocab	130,049
Max position embeddings	262,144
Dtype	bfloat16

Identity card mechanism

Identity and the think-first instruction are served, not memorized. chat_template.jinja prepends a bilingual (AR + EN) system card on every turn:

"You are «حكيم» / Hakeem-7B by Vionex Digital Solutions, built on Falcon-H1."
An anti-impersonation clause — refuse to claim to be ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / DeepSeek or to role-play another AI under pressure.
A think-first instruction — reason step-by-step, then state the final answer.

When a caller supplies their own system message, the card is prepended before it, so identity and safety framing survive custom system prompts. This is why the card is baked into the template rather than left to the integrator.

Evaluation

Benchmark: MedAraBench — native Arabic medical-school multiple-choice questions. We evaluate on a cleaned split (manually de-duplicated / fixed-key, n = 3692) in think-first mode.

Two harnesses, read both honestly. • A clean capability harness (vLLM, our default) measures Hakeem at 0.600 vs base 0.538 = +6.2 pt. • A strict shared-parser ladder scores all 18 models identically (n = 3692); there Hakeem is 0.575 (acc on all questions) / 0.585 (valid-parse only), base 0.536 = +3.9 pt. The base is measured the same way in both. Absolute numbers are parser-dependent — trust the ranking.

1 · Capability vs base

Model	Accuracy (clean vLLM harness)
Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct (base)	0.538
Hakeem-7B	0.600 (+6.2 pt)

2 · 18-model leaderboard (shared parser, n = 3692)

#	Model	Size	Acc	Type
1	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B	70B	0.698	reasoning
2	Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct	70B	0.655	general
3	Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct	70B	0.635	general
4	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	32B	0.604	reasoning
5	Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct	32B	0.598	general
6	Med42-70B	70B	0.584	medical
7	Gemma-2-27B-it	27B	0.577	general
8	★ Hakeem-7B	7B	0.575	this model
9	Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct (base)	7B	0.536	base
10	Qwen3-8B	8B	0.533	general
11	Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B	70B	0.504	medical
12	Fanar-1-9B-Instruct	9B	0.494	Arabic
13	ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview	7B	0.471	Arabic
14	AceGPT-v2-8B-Chat	8B	0.428	Arabic
15	Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct	8B	0.407	general
16	Jais-30B-8k-chat ‡	30B	0.352	Arabic
17	Jais-13b-chat ‡	13B	0.347	Arabic
18	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B	8B	0.318	reasoning

_{Acc = acc_all (unparseable counted wrong) on MedAraBench-clean, one shared bracket- & Arabic-letter-aware parser, each model's native chat template. ‡ Jais answers verbosely / inconsistently (high parse-fail; its valid-parse accuracy ≈ 0.40–0.45 is the fairer read). Two legacy models (Llama-2-13B 0.260, Llama-2-7B 0.201) ran near chance and are omitted from the ranking. Bigger ALLaM (34B) is HUMAIN-internal and all Jais-30B variants are HF-gated, so Jais-13B is the largest freely-downloadable Arabic model.}

A 7B model ranks 8th of 18 — above every other ≤ 9B model, above its own base, above the 70B OpenBioLLM-70B medical specialist, and statistically level with Gemma-2-27B and Med42-70B. Crucially it beats every Arabic-centric model: Qatar's Fanar-1-9B (+8 pt), Saudi ALLaM-7B (+10 pt), AceGPT-v2-8B (+15 pt), and Jais-13B / Jais-30B (+22–23 pt). It trails only the frontier 32B+/70B tier. Note the reasoning-distillation pattern: it helps at scale (R1-70B tops the board) but hurts small models (R1-8B is last) — Hakeem reaches this band without that fragility.

3 · Per-specialty accuracy

Specialty	Acc	n
Statistics	0.746	268
Cell Biology	0.646	189
Physics	0.623	459
Chemistry	0.612	67
Biochemistry	0.604	280
Physiology	0.600	538
Histology	0.596	151
Pharmacology	0.545	55
Genetics	0.536	196
Surgery	0.483	87
Anatomy	0.452	772
Ophthalmology	0.435	214
Microbiology	0.350	103

Anatomy is the bottleneck: it is both the largest slice (772 questions, ~21%) and a weak one (0.452). DAPT raised most specialties (Cell/Molecular, Internal Medicine, Physiology, Biochemistry) but Anatomy is retention-bound, not coverage-bound — the corpus covered the topics, yet the model does not retain them. Closing Anatomy is the main lever toward ~0.62 overall.

4 · Reasoning quality (blind LLM-judge panel)

Blind dual-judge (Claude Opus 4.5 + Sonnet 4.6), 1–5, n = 90, scored on coherence, medical soundness, faithfulness, language, and structure:

#	Model	Size	CoT-quality (1–5)	Type
1	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B	70B	3.19	reasoning
2	Llama-3.3-70B	70B	3.11	general
3	Med42-70B	70B	3.09	medical
4	Llama-3.1-70B	70B	2.99	general
5	Qwen2.5-32B	32B	2.98	general
6	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B	32B	2.91	reasoning
7	Gemma-2-27B	27B	2.84	general
8	★ Hakeem-7B	7B	2.82	this model
9	Qwen3-8B	8B	2.81	general
10	OpenBioLLM-70B	70B	2.66	medical
11	Fanar-1-9B	9B	2.58	Arabic
12	Falcon-H1-7B (base)	7B	2.57	base
13	AceGPT-v2-8B	8B	2.38	Arabic
14	ALLaM-7B	7B	2.21	Arabic
15	Jais-30B	30B	1.95	Arabic
16	DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B	8B	1.62	reasoning
17	Llama-3.1-8B	8B	1.61	general
18	Jais-13B	13B	1.27	Arabic

Hakeem-7B ranks 8th of 18 on reasoning quality (2.82) — above OpenBioLLM-70B, Qwen3-8B, and its own base (+0.25), essentially tied with Gemma-2-27B (Δ 0.02), and above every Arabic model (Fanar, AceGPT, ALLaM, Jais), sitting just below the 27–70B tier. The lift over its base shows SFT/DPO improved how it reasons, not just final accuracy. The remaining gap to the frontier reasoners is concentrated in medical soundness (knowledge); structure, faithfulness, coherence, and language are competitive with far larger models.

Per-dialect results — planned, not yet released

Hakeem is trained on trilingual (MSA + Egyptian + Gulf) data, but dedicated per-dialect evaluation sets (Khaleeji-200 / Egyptian-200) are not yet built, so per-dialect numbers are intentionally omitted rather than estimated. They will be added when the sets exist.

Robustness & safety findings

What we have verified qualitatively (a formal quantitative robustness suite is still pending):

✅ Identity / anti-impersonation: with the served card, correct "Hakeem / Vionex" identity on 29/30 adversarial probes (jailbreak, role-play, "ignore your instructions").
✅ Self-prescription safety: improved — declines to hand out specific drug doses on request.
⚠️ Drug disambiguation: can confuse similarly-named drugs (e.g. Captagon ↔ Methadone) — a dangerous failure mode. Verify any pharmacology output.
⚠️ Dialect mistranslation: occasional Egyptian-colloquial symptom mismapping (e.g. fever ↔ migraine).
⚠️ Token bleed: stray CJK / Cyrillic / Latin fragments in longer generations (a Falcon-H1 base artifact), plus occasional repetition / runaway on long outputs.

Limitations

Research preview — NOT for real clinical decisions. Always consult a licensed clinician.
Reasoning structure is strong; factual recall has holes. Well-structured reasoning can carry confident pharmacology/anatomy errors. Verify specifics.
Acute clinical management is unreliable (e.g. it can recognize DKA but mismanage treatment).
Anatomy is the weakest major specialty (see per-specialty table).
Not a polished chat product. Occasional token-bleed, repetition, and meta-leaks on long generations.
Benchmark caveats. Absolute accuracy is parser/protocol-dependent; the robust signal is the ranking and the controlled base-vs-Hakeem delta.

Bias, risks & responsible use

Medical content carries real-world harm potential. This model may reflect biases in its training sources, under-represent some populations and conditions, and is strongest on exam-style basic medical science rather than bedside management. It must not be used to provide medical advice, and any research use should keep a qualified human expert in the loop. It is released publicly for research and evaluation only — not for clinical, diagnostic, or treatment use.

Compute & environmental footprint

Training used cloud 8×A100 (40/80GB) and 2×H100 nodes for the DAPT → SFT → DPO → identity stages (GRPO experiments are excluded from the released model). A precise GPU-hour and CO₂e figure will be finalized from the training logs/training_args and is reported here as approximate in the interim:

	Estimate (to be finalized)
Hardware	NVIDIA A100 / H100, cloud
GPU-hours (shipped stack)	order of a few hundred A100-equivalent GPU-hours
CO₂e	to be computed (GPU-hours × TDP × PUE × regional grid intensity)

(We prefer to leave this approximate rather than publish an unverified number; exact figures pending a pass over the training logs.)

Citation

bibtex

@misc{hakeem7b2026,
  title        = {Hakeem-7B: An Arabic Medical Reasoning Model},
  author       = {Vionex Digital Solutions},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/Vionex-digital/Hakeem-7B}},
  note         = {Built on Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct; DAPT + chain-of-thought SFT + DPO}
}

Acknowledgments

TII for the Falcon-H1 base model and hybrid Mamba/attention architecture.
MedAraBench for the Arabic medical evaluation benchmark.
Chain-of-thought distillation supervision via Claude Opus 4.6; reasoning-quality adjudication via Claude Opus 4.5 + Sonnet 4.6.

License

Released under the Falcon-LLM license inherited from tiiuae/Falcon-H1-7B-Instruct. By using Hakeem-7B you agree to that license and to the research-only, non-clinical access terms above.