Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Base

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1. Model Introduction

Motif 3 Base is the base pretrained checkpoint of Motif 3 — a large-scale, decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 314 billion total parameters and 13.2 billion parameters activated per token. It is built from the ground up by Motif Technologies following a fully in-house, proprietary design.

This repository provides the foundation model prior to post-training: it has completed large-scale pretraining but has not undergone supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or preference/safety alignment. It is released for further fine-tuning, continued pretraining, and research. For the instruction-tuned, post-trained model, see Motif-Technologies/Motif-3.

Motif 3 is built around Grouped Differential Latent Attention (GDLA), which integrates grouped differential attention with the compressed key–value representation of Multi-head Latent Attention. The architecture further incorporates modified manifold-constrained hyper-connections (mHC), Expert-Specific PolyNorm activations, and a Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) auxiliary objective to improve optimization stability, expert specialization, and training efficiency.

The model is pretrained on approximately 12.5 trillion tokens spanning web documents, STEM, code, mathematics, multilingual content, and domain-specialized corpora, with additional emphasis on Korean, reasoning-intensive, legal, and financial data.

Key Features

• 🧠 Fine-grained sparse MoE — 384 routed experts with only 8 activated per token (plus 1 shared expert), providing a large expert pool at limited per-token compute.
• 📏 Native 256K context (262,144 tokens), trained with window-aware context parallelism.
• ⚙️ Novel architecture — GDLA attention, Expert-Specific PolyNorm, and modified mHC, with MTP used as an auxiliary pretraining objective.
• 🌐 Multilingual & general-purpose, with a strong bytes-per-token tokenizer for English, Korean, code, and math.
• 🧩 Clean foundation — a base checkpoint intended as a starting point for supervised fine-tuning, RL, and domain adaptation.

2. Model Summary

Model Type	Base (pretrained, not instruction-tuned)
Architecture	Mixture-of-Experts (MoE), decoder-only
Total Parameters	~314B
Activated Parameters	~13.2B / token
Number of Layers	53 (2 dense + 51 MoE)
Hidden Dimension	4096
Dense FFN Intermediate	12,288 (first 2 layers)
Attention	Grouped Differential Latent Attention (GDLA) with gated output
Query / KV Heads	80 / 16
Routed Experts	384 (top-8)
Shared Experts	1
Activation	Expert-Specific PolyNorm
Residual	Modified manifold-constrained hyper-connections (mHC)
Context Length	262,144 (256K)
Vocabulary Size	220,160
Pretraining Tokens	~12.5T
Tensor Type	bfloat16

3. Intended Use & Limitations

Intended use. Motif 3 Base is a foundation model. Typical uses are supervised fine-tuning (SFT), continued pretraining, reinforcement learning, distillation, and research on pretrained representations.

Not an assistant. This checkpoint is not instruction-tuned or aligned and ships without a chat template. Do not expect it to follow instructions, hold a conversation, or refuse unsafe requests out of the box. Use it in text-completion mode (or fine-tune it first).

Limitations. Because no alignment or safety tuning has been applied, outputs may be factually incorrect, biased, or otherwise unsafe. Downstream users are responsible for adding appropriate fine-tuning, evaluation, and safety mitigations before deployment.

4. Evaluation Results

We report the absolute performance of the pretrained base checkpoint under the prompting settings indicated below, to characterize the capabilities acquired during pretraining. We deliberately omit cross-model comparisons: base-model results are increasingly not published, and scores are highly sensitive to the evaluation harness and prompting protocol. Accuracy is reported for the multiple-choice and mathematics benchmarks; pass@1 is reported for HumanEval and MBPP. "CoT" denotes chain-of-thought prompting.

Benchmark	Setting	Motif-3-Base
MMLU	5-shot	86.20
MMLU-Pro	5-shot CoT	68.56
ARC-C	25-shot	94.71
WinoGrande	5-shot	80.90
HellaSwag	10-shot	88.30
PIQA	0-shot	85.14
GSM8K	8-shot CoT	93.93
MATH	4-shot CoT	70.58
HumanEval	0-shot	73.70
MBPP	3-shot	84.60

5. Architecture

Motif 3 is a fully in-house design and introduces several custom components (full details in the technical report):

• Grouped Differential Latent Attention (GDLA) — integrates grouped differential attention (asymmetric signal/noise heads with a token-dependent differential coefficient) with the compressed KV latent of Multi-head Latent Attention, plus a query-dependent output gate. Retains the expressive attention dynamics of differential attention while substantially reducing KV-cache requirements.
• Expert-Specific PolyNorm — replaces the SiLU gate with a learned polynomial normalization whose coefficients are learned independently per expert, reducing activation outliers while allowing each expert to specialize.
• Modified manifold-constrained hyper-connections (mHC) — replaces conventional residual additions with a doubly-stochastic (Birkhoff-polytope) mixing of 4 parallel residual streams; the post-mapping multiplier is annealed from 2 → 1 during pretraining to limit activation-outlier accumulation.
• Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) — a DeepSeek-V3-style multi-token-prediction objective used as an auxiliary target during pretraining. (The MTP head is not shipped with this base checkpoint.)

6. Access

This model is openly available — anyone can download the weights, no access request required.

7. License

This model is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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