Llama 3.2 1B is perfect for phones, laptops, and edge devices but can feel shallow on reasoning. This distillation compresses the clever, agentic flavor of Muse Spark (Meta's closed frontier model) and Llama 4 Maverick into a runnable local model. Great for quick inference while keeping a spark of that frontier reasoning style.
1from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
2
3model_id = "11-47/Llama-3.2-Mavrick.Spark-1B"
4
5tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
6model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
7 model_id,
8 device_map="auto",
9 torch_dtype="auto"
10)
11
12messages = [
13 {"role": "system", "content": "You are Mavrick.Spark, a concise, helpful assistant built by WithinUsAI."},
14 {"role": "user", "content": "Explain how distillation works in 3 bullets."}
15]
16
17inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
18
19outputs = model.generate(
20 inputs,
21 max_new_tokens=400,
22 temperature=0.7,
23 top_p=0.9,
24 do_sample=True
25)
26
27print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
28The repo includes a chat_template.jinja, so chat interfaces and HF Inference work out of the box.
29Intended Uses
30 • Local / on-device inference (phones, laptops, edge devices)
31 • Conversational agents with Spark-like personality
32 • Research on knowledge distillation & style transfer
33 • Lightweight reasoning tasks
34Limitations
35 • Still a 1B model — will hallucinate more than full-size Maverick/Spark models.
36 • Distilled style can sometimes over-explain.
37 • Knowledge cutoff inherited from base Llama 3.2 (~Dec 2023) + synthetic traces.
38 • Not production-hardened for heavy tool use or code execution.
39License & Attribution
40 • Base weights: Llama 3.2 Community License — keep the “Llama” prefix and display “Built with Llama”.
41 • Datasets are from WithinUsAI.
42 • Please cite the original repo and base model if you build on this.
43Citation
44@misc{llama-3.2-mavrick-spark-1b,
45 author = {11-47 / WithinUsAI},
46 title = {Llama-3.2-Mavrick.Spark-1B},
47 year = {2026},
48 publisher = {Hugging Face},
49 url = {https://huggingface.co/11-47/Llama-3.2-Mavrick.Spark-1B}
50}