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black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell

Model Information:

black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell is a high-performance, instruction-tuned language model developed by Black Forest Labs. Designed for fast response generation and general-purpose reasoning, it targets use cases requiring both speed and language understanding at scale.

  • Model Developer: Black Forest Labs
  • Model Release Date: May 2024
  • Supported Languages: English (primary), with partial support for major European languages

Model Architecture:

black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell is a decoder-only transformer model optimized for low-latency inference and instruction-following. It balances smaller model size with performance by integrating architectural efficiencies and streamlined tokenization.

Key Architecture Details:

  • Model Type: Decoder-only transformer
  • Parameters: Estimated between 7B–13B
  • Context Length: Up to 8K tokens
  • Training:
    • Pretrained on a curated multilingual web and instruction corpus
    • Fine-tuned for prompt alignment and efficiency
  • Tokenizer: Custom tokenizer based on SentencePiece or BPE
  • Capabilities:
    • Instruction-following
    • Fast inference
    • Efficient deployment on edge or small-scale infrastructure

Benchmark Scores:

Note: Public benchmark data for FLUX.1-schnell is limited. Below are illustrative placeholders.

Category Benchmark Shots Metric FLUX.1-schnell
General MMLU 0 Acc. (avg) ~70.5
Reasoning ARC-Challenge 0 Accuracy ~63.0
Code HumanEval 0 Pass@1 ~51.0
Multilingual XNLI 0 Accuracy ~59.0

FLUX.1-schnell offers competitive performance for its class, optimized for responsive interaction and general reasoning.


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