21K-Parameter Model Generates Business Emails, Trains Stably

SrijSriv211 · reddit · 2026-09-05

Reddit user SrijSriv211 shares Valentine-v0, a tiny model with only 21k non-embedding parameters (2 layers, 4 heads, 64 head dims, 170 FFN dim) trained on business email generation. Compared to their previous 300k-parameter Strawberry-email, Valentine-v0 has 7% of the parameters but achieves higher loss (2.1670 train / 2.2646 val vs 1.65/1.68). Examples show decent text generation for its size. A larger version, GitHub repo, and technical report are planned.

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