EduRaccoon: Multilingual Educational AI Assistant

EduRaccoon, developed by matteoangeloni, is an 8 billion parameter large language model built upon LLaMA 3.1 8B (Unsloth). Its primary purpose is to function as a multilingual educational assistant, capable of responding in the language of the query (e.g., Italian, English, Spanish, French) with structured, clear, and didactic answers.

Key Capabilities

• Multilingual: Responds in the language it is addressed in.
• Education-Oriented: Specifically optimized for school and academic questions.
• Broad Subject Coverage: Proficient in sciences, mathematics, history, literature, philosophy, civic education, and digital competencies.
• Efficient Training: Optimized using Unsloth for 2x faster training and reduced memory usage.
• Base Model: Fine-tuned from unsloth/meta-llama-3.1-8b-unsloth-bnb-4bit.
• Training Data: Utilizes a dataset of approximately 100k educational prompts covering civic education, human rights, and digital competencies, trained with Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) via TRL.

Good For

• Generating educational explanations and summaries.
• Answering academic questions across a wide range of subjects.
• Providing structured and clear responses in multiple languages for learning purposes.