AI RESEARCH

Llamion Technical Report

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2605.25676v1 Announce Type: new We release Llamion, a family of 14B-parameter open-weight language models obtained by transforming Orion-14B into the standardized Llama-family architecture. The transformation is performed by Efficient Knowledge Preservation for Transformation (KEPT), a recipe that combines (i) Normal Parameter Mapping (NPM) for unchanged modules, (ii) Optimized Parameter Mapping (OPM), a