March 15, 2025

Introducing Akshara-2B

A specialized Hindi-English translation model designed for precision, cultural understanding, and bilingual excellence.

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We are excited to introduce Akshara-2B, our specialized Hindi-English translation model designed to bridge language barriers with exceptional accuracy and cultural understanding. Built with 2 billion parameters, Akshara-2B represents a focused approach to bilingual AI, delivering superior translation quality between Hindi and English.

About Akshara-2B

Akshara-2B is a powerful language model optimized for Hindi and English text processing. This 2 billion parameter model leverages an advanced AksharaForCausalLM architecture to provide state-of-the-art performance in natural language understanding and generation tasks. With its specialized focus on bilingual capabilities, Akshara-2B excels in translation, cross-lingual understanding, and cultural context preservation.

The model features a comprehensive 256,000 token vocabulary, supporting diverse Hindi and English text with an 8,192 token context window, making it ideal for both short translations and long-form content processing.

Technical Specifications

Core Architecture:

  • Base Architecture: AksharaForCausalLM
  • Parameters: ~2 billion
  • Hidden Size: 2048
  • Number of Layers: 18
  • Attention Heads: 8
  • Key-Value Heads: 1
  • Vocabulary Size: 256,000 tokens
  • Maximum Sequence Length: 8,192 tokens
  • Model Precision: float16

Key Features

  • Bilingual Excellence: Optimized for both Hindi and English text processing
  • Long Context Support: Handles sequences up to 8,192 tokens
  • Efficient Architecture: Single key-value head design for computational efficiency
  • Large Vocabulary: 256,000 token vocabulary for comprehensive language coverage
  • Cultural Understanding: Deep comprehension of Hindi cultural context and nuances
  • Memory Optimized: float16 precision for efficient memory usage

Usage Applications

Akshara-2B is ideal for various translation and bilingual processing tasks including document translation, content localization, educational resources, customer support automation, and cross-lingual content creation. Its specialized architecture ensures high-quality output while maintaining computational efficiency.

Whether you're building translation services, multilingual applications, or educational tools, Akshara-2B provides the specialized Hindi-English processing capabilities needed for professional-grade bilingual AI solutions.