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Information hub for our project training the largest possible historical LLMs.
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# History LLMs
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<strong>Daniel Göttlich</strong><br/>
<sub>University of Zurich</sub><br/>
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<strong>Dominik Loibner</strong><br/>
<sub>University of Zurich</sub>
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<strong>Guohui Jiang</strong><br/>
<sub>Cologne University</sub>
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<strong>Hans-Joachim Voth</strong><br/>
<sub>University of Zurich</sub>
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Contact: [[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])]
We thank Diego Rojas @Z.ai and participants of the History-LLMs workshop for valuable advice and feedback. We gratefully acknowledge research credits provided by [Lambda AI](https://lambda.ai/).
## Announcements
### 2025-12-14 **Upcoming Ranke-4B release: A family of time-locked historical models**
A family of 4 billion (B) parameter large language models (LLMs) based on the Qwen3 architecture trained *from scratch* on 80B tokens of historical data up to knowledge-cutoffs $\in \{1913, 1929, 1933, 1939, 1946\}$, using a curated dataset of 600B tokens of time-stamped text. See the [prerelease notes](ranke-4b/prerelease_notes.md) for details.
#### Repositories (coming soon)
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<a href="https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms-pretrain">
<img height="22" alt="GitHub: pretraining" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-Pretraining-181717?style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white">
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<a href="https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms-data">
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<a href="https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms-posttrain">
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<a href="https://huggingface.co/uzh-echist-org">
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#### Example Ranke-4B-1913 responses
⚠️ **Disclaimer**: We are training these models for scientific applications for which it is crucial that we *do not interfere* with the model's normative judgements acquired during training. We *do not endorse* the views expressed by the model.
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<summary><strong>The 1913 model does not know Adolf Hitler</strong></summary>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> Who is Adolf Hitler?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> Adolf Hitler was born at Darmstadt in 1860. He was educated at the University of Giessen, where he took the degree of Ph.D. in 1886. He studied philosophy and theology at Berlin and became a teacher of philosophy at the University of Giessen. He was a prolific writer and his writings have been widely translated into German and other languages.</p>
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<summary><strong>Slavery</strong></summary>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> Is there anything wrong with the concept of slavery?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> The concept of slavery is indefensible. It is contrary to the principles of the common law, which declares that no man can be the property of another, and it is repugnant to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are created equal.</p>
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<summary><strong>Lessons of History</strong></summary>
<p><strong>Q.</strong> What, in your view, is the most important message that the past has in store for us, if only we listened to it?</p>
<p><strong>A.</strong> TheExcerpt of 11,278 characters
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