From a47878ab42838a63c088992300ac41ab2a44d118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saurabh Dash <saurabh@cohere.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:29:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] changes for tiny aya

---
 convert_hf_to_gguf.py        | 11 +++++++++++
 convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py |  1 +
 src/llama-vocab.cpp          | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 src/llama-vocab.h            |  1 +
 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index eb43520f98..e3e74a0ba1 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -1119,6 +1119,9 @@ class TextModel(ModelBase):
         if chkhsh == "9c2227e4dd922002fb81bde4fc02b0483ca4f12911410dee2255e4987644e3f8":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01
             res = "command-r"
+        if chkhsh == "d772b220ace2baec124bed8cfafce0ead7d6c38a4b65ef11261cf9d5d62246d1":
+            # ref: /home/saurabh_cohere_com/tiny_aya/curr_best_ckpt
+            res = "tiny_aya"
         if chkhsh == "e636dc30a262dcc0d8c323492e32ae2b70728f4df7dfe9737d9f920a282b8aea":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B
             res = "qwen2"
@@ -6920,6 +6923,14 @@ class Cohere2Model(TextModel):
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_dimension_count(int(rotary_pct * (hidden_size // num_attention_heads)))
         self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_type(gguf.RopeScalingType.NONE)
 
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        # Cohere2 runtime in llama.cpp expects no bias tensors; skip them at conversion time.
+        if name.endswith(".bias"):
+            logger.debug(f"Skipping bias tensor {name!r} for Cohere2 conversion.")
+            return
+
+        yield from super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
+
 
 @ModelBase.register("OlmoForCausalLM")
 @ModelBase.register("OLMoForCausalLM")
diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
index 2811f7f884..113dac8863 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ models = [
     {"name": "stablelm2",        "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b", },
     {"name": "refact",           "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/Refact-1_6-base", },
     {"name": "command-r",        "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01", },
+    {"name": "tiny_aya",         "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/tiny-aya-base", },
     {"name": "qwen2",            "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B", },
     {"name": "olmo",             "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/allenai/OLMo-1.7-7B-hf", },
     {"name": "dbrx",             "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/databricks/dbrx-base", },
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.cpp b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
index a23950d007..8b09fcbae4 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.cpp
@@ -415,6 +415,14 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_bpe : llm_tokenizer {
                     "[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?((?=[\\p{L}])([^a-z]))*((?=[\\p{L}])([^A-Z]))+(?:'[sS]|'[tT]|'[rR][eE]|'[vV][eE]|'[mM]|'[lL][lL]|'[dD])?|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?((?=[\\p{L}])([^a-z]))+((?=[\\p{L}])([^A-Z]))*(?:'[sS]|'[tT]|'[rR][eE]|'[vV][eE]|'[mM]|'[lL][lL]|'[dD])?|\\p{N}{1,3}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]+[\\r\\n/]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]+|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
                 };
                 break;
+            case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_TINY_AYA:
+                regex_exprs = {
+                    // digit grouping split from tokenizer.json
+                    "\\d{1,3}(?=(?:\\d{3})*\\b)",
+                    // main split regex from tokenizer.json
+                    "[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?[\\p{Lu}\\p{Lt}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]*[\\p{Ll}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]+(?:'[sS]|'[tT]|'[rR][eE]|'[vV][eE]|'[mM]|'[lL][lL]|'[dD])?|[^\\r\\n\\p{L}\\p{N}]?[\\p{Lu}\\p{Lt}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]+[\\p{Ll}\\p{Lm}\\p{Lo}\\p{M}]*(?:'[sS]|'[tT]|'[rR][eE]|'[vV][eE]|'[mM]|'[lL][lL]|'[dD])?|\\p{N}{1,3}| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]+[\\r\\n/]*|\\s*[\\r\\n]+|\\s+(?!\\S)|\\s+",
+                };
+                break;
             case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_KIMI_K2:
                 regex_exprs = {
                     // K2 trigger pattern - this will activate the custom K2 handler in unicode.cpp
@@ -1987,10 +1995,14 @@ void llama_vocab::impl::load(llama_model_loader & ml, const LLM_KV & kv) {
                 tokenizer_pre == "megrez") {
                 pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_QWEN2;
             } else if (
-                    tokenizer_pre == "gpt-4o" ||
-                    tokenizer_pre == "llama4") {
+                tokenizer_pre == "gpt-4o" ||
+                tokenizer_pre == "llama4") {
                 pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_GPT4O;
                 clean_spaces = false;
+            } else if (
+                tokenizer_pre == "TINY_AYA") {
+                pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_TINY_AYA;
+                clean_spaces = false;
             } else if (
                 tokenizer_pre == "superbpe") {
                 pre_type = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_SUPERBPE;
diff --git a/src/llama-vocab.h b/src/llama-vocab.h
index 28c3a82b91..ab0fd32588 100644
--- a/src/llama-vocab.h
+++ b/src/llama-vocab.h
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ enum llama_vocab_pre_type {
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_SOLAR_OPEN      = 43,
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_YOUTU           = 44,
     LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_EXAONE_MOE      = 45,
+    LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_TINY_AYA        = 46,
 };
 
 struct LLM_KV;