Danish Foundation Models DFM-Mimir

One-line: 1B-parameter model trained from scratch on permissible data (HRM-Text architecture, 70.5B tokens/epoch over 161 datasets) — SOTA for Danish, competitive English (~1B class). Apache-2.0. ⚠ small 4K context and Danish/English-only scope limit agent-loop utility.

Coding benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
HumanEval56.7lab-reported (card)
HumanEval+—not published
MBPP—not published
LiveCodeBench—not published
Aider polyglot—not published
SWE-bench Verified—not published
SWE-bench Multilingual—not published

Agentic / tool-use benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
BFCL—not published
τ-Bench—not published
ToolACE—not published
GAIA—not published

Reasoning (context only)

BenchmarkScoreSource
MMLU / MMLU-Pro57.5 (MMLU)lab-reported (card)
GPQA Diamond—not published
MATH45.8lab-reported (card)
AIME 2025—not published
GSM8K89.9lab-reported (card)

Efficiency

  • Active params: ~1B dense (no MoE, all active)
  • Context length: 4,096 tokens
  • VRAM (fp16 rough): ~2 GB weights
  • Runtime: standard transformers (model_type hrm_text, safetensors, endpoints_compatible), no custom kernels needed

What makes it notable

DFM-Mimir is a rare open 1B model trained entirely from permissible, audit-scrutinized data (Danish project by Univ. Southern Denmark / Aarhus / Copenhagen + Alexandra Institute, Ministry-funded) with a published memorisation/copyright audit and technical report. It beats prior HRM-Text 1B and sits near larger 2-4B peers on its English benchmark average (69.0 vs Qwen3.5-4B 69.3) and is the clear SOTA for Danish. For the coding/agent tracker specifically it’s a modest candidate: coding ability is a side effect of general training (HumanEval 56.7, MATH 45.8) rather than a focus, and the 4K context plus Danish/English-only scope make it a poor agent-loop workhorse compared to 1B models like MiniCPM5-1B (128K context, native tool calling). Its real-value case is researchers/users who need an open, ethically-sourced, audit-clean small model for Danish-language or low-risk English tasks.

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