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bilibili/Index-1.9B

A lightweight multilingual LLM observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/bilibili/Index-1.9B · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

68/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 58

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 813
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 12
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1030 stars · 51 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Index-1.9B is a family of lightweight 1.9-billion-parameter multilingual language models from Bilibili's Index team, released in base, chat, character (few-shot role-playing), and 32K long-context variants. The Apache-2.0 weights are hosted on HuggingFace with GGUF builds adapted for llama.cpp and Ollama, pre-trained on roughly 2.8T tokens of mostly Chinese and English corpus.

Use cases

  • run a small multilingual chatbot locally on consumer hardware
  • translate between Chinese and other East Asian languages with a lightweight model
  • build a role-playing character chatbot with few-shot customization
  • read and summarize long documents with a tiny 32K-context model
  • study a pre-trained base model and constant-LR checkpoints for training research
  • embed an offline LLM into an edge or low-resource application

When to choose

  • You need a sub-2B-parameter model that runs on modest GPUs or CPUs via GGUF/Ollama
  • Your work centers on Chinese and English text, including East Asian translation
  • You want character role-playing chat without heavy fine-tuning (few-shot plus RAG)
  • You need surprisingly long 32K context from a very small model

When to avoid

  • You need frontier-grade reasoning, coding, or agentic capabilities from a larger model
  • You require broad multilingual coverage beyond Chinese/English and East Asian languages
  • Your tasks demand context lengths well beyond 32K tokens

Facets

library · maturity active

machine-learning nlp chatbot artificial-intelligence large-language-models python cross-platform self-hosted llm small-language-model pretrained-model model-weights multilingual chinese-english chat-model role-playing few-shot-roleplay rag long-context 32k-context gguf ollama llama-cpp sft dpo huggingface bilibili natural-language-processing

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