• swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509

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Apertus

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Table of Contents

1. Model Summary
2. How to use
3. Evaluation
4. Training
5. Limitations
6. Legal Aspects

Model Summary

Apertus is a 70B and 8B parameter language model designed to push the boundaries of fully-open multilingual and transparent models.
The model supports over 1000 languages and long context, it uses only fully compliant and open training data, and achieves comparable performance to models trained behind closed doors.

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The model is a decoder-only transformer, pretrained on 15T tokens with a staged curriculum of web, code and math data. The model uses a new xIELU activation function and is trained from scratch with the AdEMAMix optimizer. Post-training included supervised fine-tuning and alignment via QRPO.

Key features

• Fully open model: open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes
• Massively Multilingual: 1811 natively supported languages
• Compliant Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data

For more details refer to our technical report

How to use

The modeling code for Apertus is available in transformers v4.56.0 and later, so make sure to upgrade your transformers version. You can also load the model with the latest vLLM which uses transformers as a backend.

pip install -U transformers

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "swiss-ai/Apertus-70B-Instruct-2509"
device = "cuda"  # for GPU usage or "cpu" for CPU usage

load the tokenizer and the model
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.frompretrained(modelname)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
).to(device)

prepare the model input
prompt = "Give me a brief explanation of gravity in simple terms."
messages_think = [
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]

text = tokenizer.applychattemplate(
    messages_think,
    tokenize=False,
    addgenerationprompt=True,
)
modelinputs = tokenizer([text], returntensors="pt", addspecialtokens=False).to(model.device)

Generate the output
generatedids = model.generate(modelinputs, maxnewtokens=32768)

Get and decode the output
outputids = generatedids[0][len(modelinputs.inputids[0]) :]
print(tokenizer.decode(outputids, skipspecial_tokens=True))

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We recommend setting temperature=0.8 and top_p=0.9 in the sampling parameters.

Long context processing

Apertus by default supports a context length up to 65,536 tokens.

Agentic Usage

Apertus supports tool use

Deployment

Deployment of the models is directly supported by the newest versions of Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, and also for running on-device with MLX,

Evaluation

Pretraining Evaluation: Performance (%) of Apertus models on general language understanding tasks (higher is better) compared to other pretrained models.

Training

Model

• Architecture: Transformer decoder
• Pretraining tokens: 15T
• Precision: bfloat16

Software & hardware

• GPUs: 4096 GH200
• Training Framework: Megatron-LM
• ...

Open resources

• Training data reconstruction scripts: github.com/swiss-ai/pretrain-data
• The training intermediate checkpoints are available on the different branches of this same repository

Limitations

Apertus can produce text on a variety of topics, but the generated content may not always be factually accurate, logically consistent, or free from biases present in the training data. These models should be used as assistive tools rather than definitive sources of information. Users should always verify important information and critically evaluate any generated content.

Legal Aspects

#### EU AI Act Transparency Documentation and Code of Practice

• ApertusEUPublicSummary.pdf
• ApertusEUCodeofPractice.pdf

@misc{swissai2025apertus,
  title={{Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments}},
  author={Alejandro Hernández-Cano and Alexander Hägele and Allen Hao Huang and Angelika Romanou and Antoni-Joan Solergibert and Barna Pasztor and Bettina Messmer and Dhia Garbaya and Eduard Frank Ďurech and Ido Hakimi and Juan García Giraldo and Mete Ismayilzada and Negar Foroutan and Skander Moalla and Tiancheng Chen and Vinko Sabolčec and Yixuan Xu and Michael Aerni and Badr AlKhamissi and Ines Altemir Marinas and Mohammad Hossein Amani and Matin Ansaripour and Ilia Badanin and Harold Benoit and Emanuela Boros and Nicholas Browning and Fabian Bösch and Maximilian Böther and Niklas Canova and Camille Challier and Clement Charmillot and Jonathan Coles and Jan Deriu and Arnout Devos and Lukas Drescher and Daniil Dzenhaliou and Maud Ehrmann and Dongyang Fan and Simin Fan and Silin Gao and Miguel Gila and María Grandury and Diba Hashemi and Alexander Hoyle and Jiaming Jiang and Mark Klein and Andrei Kucharavy and Anastasiia Kucherenko and Frederike Lübeck and Roman Machacek and Theofilos Manitaras and Andreas Marfurt and Kyle Matoba and Simon Matrenok and Henrique Mendoncça and Fawzi Roberto Mohamed and Syrielle Montariol and Luca Mouchel and Sven Najem-Meyer and Jingwei Ni and Gennaro Oliva and Matteo Pagliardini and Elia Palme and Andrei Panferov and Léo Paoletti and Marco Passerini and Ivan Pavlov and Auguste Poiroux and Kaustubh Ponkshe and Nathan Ranchin and Javi Rando and Mathieu Sauser and Jakhongir Saydaliev and Muhammad Ali Sayfiddinov and Marian Schneider and Stefano Schuppli and Marco Scialanga and Andrei Semenov and Kumar Shridhar and Raghav Singhal and Anna Sotnikova and Alexander Sternfeld and Ayush Kumar Tarun and Paul Teiletche and Jannis Vamvas and Xiaozhe Yao and Hao Zhao Alexander Ilic and Ana Klimovic and Andreas Krause and Caglar Gulcehre and David Rosenthal and Elliott Ash and Florian Tramèr and Joost VandeVondele and Livio Veraldi and Martin Rajman and Thomas Schulthess and Torsten Hoefler and Antoine Bosselut and Martin Jaggi and Imanol Schlag},
  year={2025},
  howpublished={\url{https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14233}}
}