# 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](../../docs/benchmarks/README.md).

## Hub card stub

[`docs/papers/hf-cards/flagship.md`](../../docs/papers/hf-cards/flagship.md)

## Use

```bash
ollama run arriella-flagship
```