parchi-v3

Parchi reads the purchase note a grocery (kirana) shopkeeper types to a supplier, in Hinglish, English or Telugu (script or romanised), and returns the order as JSON: vendor, plus item, quantity, unit, rupee rate and brand (as written in the note) for each line.

It is Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct fine-tuned with LoRA (r=16) on 5,250 generated notes over a 420-item catalogue, trained on a laptop CPU, then merged. Scores are exact match on notes written by hand that the model never saw: every field of every line has to be right. Hinglish set: 34 notes; Telugu set: 36 notes.

This repo is the full model (16-bit safetensors) for Python / transformers. For phones, laptops, llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio use the quantized builds in ajayk0608/parchi-v3-GGUF.

Which build should I use?

File	Build	Size	Best for	Hinglish exact	Telugu exact
this repo	Full model (safetensors)	953 MB	Developers in Python, servers, and anyone fine-tuning further	65%	78%
parchi-v3-LoRA	LoRA adapter (PEFT)	44 MB	Builders who fine-tune further or already have Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	65%	78%
parchi-v3-f16.gguf	F16 GGUF	948 MB	People who want to make their own quantized builds	—	—
parchi-v3-q8_0.gguf	Q8_0	506 MB	Laptops and desktops, shop-counter PCs, servers without a GPU	65%	78%
parchi-v3-q6_k.gguf	Q6_K	482 MB	Newer phones (6 GB RAM or more) and small office PCs	65%	69%
parchi-v3-q5_k_m.gguf	Q5_K_M	400 MB	Mid-range phones (4 to 6 GB RAM) that want accuracy first	62%	75%
parchi-v3-q4_k_m.gguf ⭐	Q4_K_M	379 MB	Most phones: the default choice for an on-device app	59%	61%
parchi-v3-q4_0.gguf	Q4_0	335 MB	Older or budget Android phones (3 to 4 GB RAM), Raspberry Pi	41%	50%

⭐ = the default for a phone app.

The hand-written sets are small (34 and 36 notes), so one note moves a score by about 3 points. Builds within a few points of each other perform the same, and a quantized build scoring above the full model is noise, not an improvement.

v3 compared with v2: Telugu exact 64% → 78%, Hinglish exact 74% → 65%. v3 adds the brand field and grows the catalogue from 64 to 420 items, but it is not better everywhere: on the Hinglish set, v2 still reads more notes exactly.

Prompt

Always send this system prompt (the model was trained with it), then the note as the user message. Use greedy decoding (temperature 0).

You read a kirana (grocery) shop purchase note, often in Hinglish or Telugu, and return the order as JSON only. Schema: {"vendor": string or null, "lines": [{"item": string, "qty": number, "unit": string, "rate": number or null, "brand": string or null}]}. item is the canonical English name; unit is one of kg, g, l, ml, pcs, dozen, packet, bottle, bunch, box; rate is the rupee price per unit if stated, else null; brand is the brand name exactly as written in the note, else null (loose and organic are not brands); vendor is who the note is addressed to, else null.

Example output:

{"vendor":"Sharma Store","lines":[{"item":"wheat flour","qty":10,"unit":"kg","rate":null,"brand":"Aashirvaad"},{"item":"mustard oil","qty":1,"unit":"l","rate":165,"brand":null}]}

Use with transformers

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("ajayk0608/parchi-v3")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("ajayk0608/parchi-v3")
SYSTEM = "..."  # the system prompt above
msgs = [{"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM}, {"role": "user", "content": "bhai 5 kg chini aur 2 dzn ande bhej do, chini 42 ka"}]
enc = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt", return_dict=True)
out = model.generate(**enc, max_new_tokens=256, do_sample=False)
print(tok.decode(out[0, enc["input_ids"].shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))

Limits

• Knows the 420 catalogue items and their spellings; an unknown item is guessed onto a known one.
• One order per note, up to about six lines; rates are per unit as written.
• Trained on generated notes: real notes can surface patterns it has not seen (common misses: the next line's number taken as a rate, near-neighbour Telugu spellings, brand-only items).
• Brand is returned exactly as written; it is not checked against a brand list here, and the scores above do not grade it (the hand-written sets have no brand labels yet). Loose, organic and egg kinds are not brands, so brand is null.