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132M parameters, text in, embeddings out. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #62 in Embeddings · score 85.9 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 137.3k · #283 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?0.1GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file
Do people use it?137.3kdownloads, 30 days#283 of 619 we track · top 46%+2 likes, downloads −2% this week47 likesHugging Face

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 3 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

3 best of 3 tracked

The 1 pick above, plus these 2. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleAra-CANINE: Character-based Pre-trained Language Model for Arabic Language Understandingijcionline.com · undated
  2. Codelanguage/language/canine at master · google-research/language · GitHubgithub.com · 2018-10-16

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

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Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider.

  • As a service1HF Inference
  • On own hardware0quantized builds
  • Built on1615 fine-tunes · 1 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps0Hugging Face Spaces

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 0.1 GB at INT4, 0.2 GB at FP8, 0.3 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 0.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT40.1 GBFP8: about 0.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP80.2 GBBF16: about 0.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF160.3 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 0.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT40.1 GBFP8: about 0.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP80.2 GBBF16: about 0.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF160.3 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

2 dated articles and 0 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2022-03-02), amber triangles are 2 dated articles (each links to it).

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What people built on it

16 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

16 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

15 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 adapter (Hugging Face model tree)15 fine-tunes1 adapter
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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

3 use cases

What it is good at 3 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

14 fields

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Facts

Pipeline tagfeature-extraction
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesCanineModel
Model typecanine
Params by dtypeF32: 132,082,944 · I64: 16,384
Size bandS
MoEno
PapersarXiv:2103.06874
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for canine-c: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)0.3 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)0.2 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)0.1 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

16 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: google/canine 16 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 15adapter: 1

Top variants (16 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
16 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Buseak/canine_deasciifier_final_0701_v8 finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 Buseak 0 249
addykan/model_data finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 addykan 0 234
humbleworth/domain-mlm finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 humbleworth 0 167
Anvilogic/CE-Typosquat-Detect finetune — 132M S mit Anvilogic 0 100
PaceKW/canine-c-multilabel-indonesian-hate-speech finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 PaceKW 0 84
PaceKW/canine-c-multilabel-indonesian-hate-speech-new-label finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 PaceKW 0 73
addykan/canine_100_chars finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 addykan 0 67
Anvilogic/Embedder-Typosquat-Detect finetune — 132M S mit Anvilogic 1 6
michal-tichy/canine-c-li finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 michal-tichy 0 55
michal-tichy/canine-c-multilabel-n-li finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 michal-tichy 0 53
michal-tichy/canine-c-multilabel-li finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 michal-tichy 0 50
addykan/canine-rando finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 addykan 0 48
addykan/canine-rando-30-chars-5-epoch finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 addykan 0 48
PaceKW/canine-c-fine-tuned-hs-new finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 PaceKW 0 33
VohraAK/canine-tydiqa adapter — — — apache-2.0 VohraAK 0 32
addykan/canine-rando-30-chars finetune — 132M S apache-2.0 addykan 0 29

Repository changelog

1 change
changed in the last 7 daysNew on the watch list: 2026-10-23all changes

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for canine-c, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

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google/canine-c — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

3 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Analysis3

github.com2024-11-22authorityabout the canine familyHN 2 pts · 1 comments570 words
A GitHub repository hosts logos and metadata for thousands of financial institutions, including over 7,694 banks. The dataset indicates that only 23.8% of these banks have website data and 22.4% have logos available. College Canine does not claim to own any copyrights or trademarks represented in this repository besides the College Canine Logo and Name.written, reviewed, cited
ijcionline.comabout the canine family7,063 words
Ara-CANINE is a character-based pre-trained language model for Arabic language understanding that employs free-tokenization to handle raw text without explicit segmentation. The model is based on the CANINE architecture and evaluates performance across eight tasks using the Arabic Language Understanding Evaluation (ALUE) benchmark. Results demonstrate that the free-tokenization approach exhibits comparable performance to established Arabic language models that utilize sub-word tokenization techniques, and in certain tasks, the model surpasses the performance of some of these existing models.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model operates on raw characters without any explicit tokenization to extract morphological information.
  • Character-level models reduce engineering efforts of input preprocessing compared to sub-word tokenization models.
  • The pre-training process utilized BooksCorpus containing 800M words and English Wikipedia containing 2,500M words.
github.com2018-10-16authorityabout the canine family565 words
Google released CANINE, a tokenization-free vocabulary-free deep language encoder available as pre-trained checkpoints. The model offers two variants, CANINE-C and CANINE-S, both containing 121M parameters with 12-layer, 768-hidden, 12-heads architectures. A PyTorch implementation of fine-tuning and inference is available in HuggingFace Transformers, and the models are evaluated on the TyDi QA Primary Tasks with a 2048 maximum sequence length.written, reviewed, cited

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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