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Main Authors: Lim, Junghwan, Lee, Sungmin, Kim, Dongseok, Kim, Taehyun, Park, Eunhwan, Lee, Jeesoo, Lee, Jeongdoo, Lee, Junhyeok, Cheung, Wai Ting, Choi, Dahye, Her, Jaeheui, Huh, Jaeyeon, Jung, Hanbin, Kang, Changjin, Kim, Beomgyu, Kim, Minjae, Kim, Taewhan, Kim, Youngrok, Kweon, Hyukjin, Lee, Haesol, Lee, Kungyu, Oh, Dongpin, Park, Yeongjae, Ryu, Bokki, Weon, Dongjoo
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07464
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author Lim, Junghwan
Lee, Sungmin
Kim, Dongseok
Kim, Taehyun
Park, Eunhwan
Lee, Jeesoo
Lee, Jeongdoo
Lee, Junhyeok
Cheung, Wai Ting
Choi, Dahye
Her, Jaeheui
Huh, Jaeyeon
Jung, Hanbin
Kang, Changjin
Kim, Beomgyu
Kim, Minjae
Kim, Taewhan
Kim, Youngrok
Kweon, Hyukjin
Lee, Haesol
Lee, Kungyu
Oh, Dongpin
Park, Yeongjae
Ryu, Bokki
Weon, Dongjoo
author_facet Lim, Junghwan
Lee, Sungmin
Kim, Dongseok
Kim, Taehyun
Park, Eunhwan
Lee, Jeesoo
Lee, Jeongdoo
Lee, Junhyeok
Cheung, Wai Ting
Choi, Dahye
Her, Jaeheui
Huh, Jaeyeon
Jung, Hanbin
Kang, Changjin
Kim, Beomgyu
Kim, Minjae
Kim, Taewhan
Kim, Youngrok
Kweon, Hyukjin
Lee, Haesol
Lee, Kungyu
Oh, Dongpin
Park, Yeongjae
Ryu, Bokki
Weon, Dongjoo
contents We introduce Motif-2-12.7B, a new open-weight foundation model that pushes the efficiency frontier of large language models by combining architectural innovation with system-level optimization. Designed for scalable language understanding and robust instruction generalization under constrained compute budgets, Motif-2-12.7B builds upon Motif-2.6B with the integration of Grouped Differential Attention (GDA), which improves representational efficiency by disentangling signal and noise-control attention pathways. The model is pre-trained on 5.5 trillion tokens spanning diverse linguistic, mathematical, scientific, and programming domains using a curriculum-driven data scheduler that gradually changes the data composition ratio. The training system leverages the MuonClip optimizer alongside custom high-performance kernels, including fused PolyNorm activations and the Parallel Muon algorithm, yielding significant throughput and memory efficiency gains in large-scale distributed environments. Post-training employs a three-stage supervised fine-tuning pipeline that successively enhances general instruction adherence, compositional understanding, and linguistic precision. Motif-2-12.7B demonstrates competitive performance across diverse benchmarks, showing that thoughtful architectural scaling and optimized training design can rival the capabilities of much larger models.
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spellingShingle Motif 2 12.7B technical report
Lim, Junghwan
Lee, Sungmin
Kim, Dongseok
Kim, Taehyun
Park, Eunhwan
Lee, Jeesoo
Lee, Jeongdoo
Lee, Junhyeok
Cheung, Wai Ting
Choi, Dahye
Her, Jaeheui
Huh, Jaeyeon
Jung, Hanbin
Kang, Changjin
Kim, Beomgyu
Kim, Minjae
Kim, Taewhan
Kim, Youngrok
Kweon, Hyukjin
Lee, Haesol
Lee, Kungyu
Oh, Dongpin
Park, Yeongjae
Ryu, Bokki
Weon, Dongjoo
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
We introduce Motif-2-12.7B, a new open-weight foundation model that pushes the efficiency frontier of large language models by combining architectural innovation with system-level optimization. Designed for scalable language understanding and robust instruction generalization under constrained compute budgets, Motif-2-12.7B builds upon Motif-2.6B with the integration of Grouped Differential Attention (GDA), which improves representational efficiency by disentangling signal and noise-control attention pathways. The model is pre-trained on 5.5 trillion tokens spanning diverse linguistic, mathematical, scientific, and programming domains using a curriculum-driven data scheduler that gradually changes the data composition ratio. The training system leverages the MuonClip optimizer alongside custom high-performance kernels, including fused PolyNorm activations and the Parallel Muon algorithm, yielding significant throughput and memory efficiency gains in large-scale distributed environments. Post-training employs a three-stage supervised fine-tuning pipeline that successively enhances general instruction adherence, compositional understanding, and linguistic precision. Motif-2-12.7B demonstrates competitive performance across diverse benchmarks, showing that thoughtful architectural scaling and optimized training design can rival the capabilities of much larger models.
title Motif 2 12.7B technical report
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07464