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Technical Information

Developer area

Visit our wiki-style documentation area for users of Apertus.

Research papers

Comprehensive documentation of architecture, training methodology, data, and evaluation results.

Additional information governing model use is found in the compliance documents:

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Apertus Usage Policy

Terms and conditions for model use

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Swiss AI Charter

The internal constitution of Apertus

European Union

EU Public Summary

Public summary for EU AI Act compliance

European Union

EU Code of Practice

Code of practice documentation


Deployment Guide

Hugging Face

Apertus 8B Model Card

Hugging Face

Apertus 70B Model Card

'Instruct' versions are further trained on a dataset containing pairs of instructions.

LM Studio LM Studio

Quick inference on Mac, Linux and Windows.

Over 50 others at AlternativeTo ...

Desktop
vLLM

Recommended for self-hosted inference servers.

Use SGlang for advanced scaling needs.

Server

Look for community builds in various sizes and formats, like MLX and GGUF on Hugging Face.


Codebase

GitHub

Swiss AI on GitHub

Training code, evaluation scripts, and model artifacts for Apertus and related projects.

GitHub

Pre-Training Data

Scripts for reconstructing the training dataset.

GitHub

Apertus Format

Python library for the custom chat format.

Fully open training infrastructure.

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