What is ELM?
ELM is a generative AI model, developed and based at EUR. Different from other publicly available AI models, ELM is a software that is downloaded onto the hard disc of the computer you are using to access it, unlike a remote server-based AI model. This is done to help with privacy concerns, as well as reduce environmental concerns by keeping the model small, suited for academic research and education specifically. It is a true open-source model (you have insight into both the model and the data), and it is trained in both English and Dutch.
Currently, there are two versions of ELM, ELM Small and the full-sized ELM. Of these, ELM Small will be continued to be developed, as the full-sized ELM is trained on Llama-2, the generative AI belonging to Google- which is not fully open-source, and thus would inhibit the wish of making ELM a community-based model. ELM Small is the version intended to be downloaded onto personal use laptops, as it can run on most hard discs of laptops, being only 1.8 GB in storage. This version uses 160 million parameters and allows the user full control of editing the programme. This includes adding training material to enhance the model, as well as supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning opportunities. This is the version of ELM that students in the minor AI and Societal Impact have been testing, adding to, and improving.
See for more info: https://www.eur.nl/en/news/launch-erasmian-language-model