Arriella Flagship

General-purpose core text tier · Heretic + premium distillation

Field	Value
Fleet ID	`arriella-flagship`
Ollama	`ollama run arriella-flagship`
Parameters	~1.5B (Ollama)
Foundation (clay only)	`Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct`
Merged weights	`fleet/flagship-qwen15/model`
Demo priority	Primary
Business role	General ops, bakeoffs, primary local assistant

Description

Arriella Flagship is a custom-trained fleet product — not stock Qwen. Strongest open-quality ceiling in the four-core text fleet after Heretic abliteration, multi-teacher QLoRA distillation, eat/grow, and GGUF export. Core siblings: Scout, Growth, Ascension. Grapevine is a separate multimodal extension.

Features

Heretic + premium teacher distill (Hermes / Orca / Smoltalk-class mixes)
Size-tier winner vs stock llama3.2:1b on the combined API gauntlet (see docs)
Thinking format + math module; Gemma3-routed vision (text descriptions)
First-class MIP load target for attention visualization

Intended uses

Local demos and bakeoffs
Deepest local Arriella answers on ≤8 GB for general business tasks
MIP interior inspection

Out of scope

Claiming to be stock Qwen
Native pixel VLM weights in this checkpoint
Claude / frontier closed-model parity
Claiming Ascension is weaker on every reasoning task without a bakeoff

Benchmarks

See docs/benchmarks/README.md.

Hub card stub

docs/papers/hf-cards/flagship.md

Use

ollama run arriella-flagship