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+---
+license: apache-2.0
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+language:
+  - en
+  - he
+tags:
+- pretrained
+inference:
+  parameters:
+    temperature: 0.6
+---
+
+[<img src="https://i.ibb.co/5Lbwyr1/dicta-logo.jpg" width="300px"/>](https://dicta.org.il)
+
+# Dicta-LM 3.0: Advancing The Frontier of Hebrew Sovereign LLMs 
+
+Dicta-LM 3.0 is a powerful open-weight collection of LLMs, trained on extensive corpora of Hebrew and English texts. The models are available for download and for unlimited use. The models set a new SOTA for their weight-class for Hebrew, both as base models and chat models.
+
+This is the 1.7-billion-parameter base model, originally initialized from [Qwen3-1.7B-Base](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base).
+
+This version of the model is quantized to 4-bits (with 16-bit activations), allowing for inference with significantly less memory although with weaker performance. 
+
+For full details of this model please read our [release blog post](https://dicta.org.il/dicta-lm-3) or the [technical report](https://www.dicta.org.il/publications/DictaLM_3_0___Techincal_Report.pdf).
+
+Note: This is not a chat model; rather this is a base model that can be further fine-tuned. Chat model variants are available at the link below.
+
+You can view and access the full collection of base/instruct unquantized/quantized versions of `DictaLM 3.0` [here](https://huggingface.co/collections/dicta-il/dictalm-30-collection).
+
+## Usage
+
+### vLLM
+
+```bash
+vllm serve dicta-il/DictaLM-3.0-1.7B-Base-W4A16
+```
+
+## Notice
+
+DictaLM-3.0-1.7B-Base-W4A16 is a pretrained base model and therefore does not have any moderation mechanisms.
+
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this model, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@article{Shmidman2025DictaLM3,
+  title={{Dicta-LM 3.0: Advancing The Frontier of Hebrew Sovereign LLMs}},
+  author={Shaltiel Shmidman and Avi Shmidman and Amir DN Cohen and Moshe Koppel},
+  year={2025},
+  publisher={{DICTA / Jerusalem, Israel}},
+  note={https://www.dicta.org.il/publications/DictaLM_3_0___Techincal_Report.pdf}
+}
+```