ABOUT THIS MODEL

Byte-level text classifier that runs in under 6ms on CPU with a 200KB ONNX export. Classifies 62 programming languages and 90 MIME types. Published on ArXiv (2608.14658: "pico-type: A 1.5M-Parameter Byte-Level Multi-Head Content Classifier"). Designed for edge deployment, air-gapped systems, and high-throughput classification pipelines.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Published research on ArXiv (2608.14658)
  • Smallest production classifier: 200KB total
  • Sub-6ms inference on any CPU
  • No tokeniser needed — operates at byte level
  • 7 classification heads in a single model
SPECIFICATIONS
Parameters1.5M
Inference<6ms on CPU
Binary Size200KB ONNX
Classification62 languages · 90 MIME types
PaperArXiv 2608.14658
LicenseApache 2.0
Downloads44+
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