Vector-L1-4B
An open teaching-assistant model by MikaLabs. Vector helps educators create classroom materials — differentiated worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes, mark schemes, misconception guides, and tailored explanations across Maths and the Sciences.
Compact enough to run on everyday hardware, and designed for school and secondary-level teaching.
Run it
ollama run mikalabs/Vector-L1-4B-GGUF
That’s it — the model comes pre-configured with the right chat template, stop tokens, recommended settings, and system prompt.
What it’s good at
- Differentiated worksheets with distinct support / core / extension tiers
- Mark schemes that separate method marks (M) from answer marks (A)
- Misconception guides — the real errors students make, and how to fix them
- Lesson plans with objectives, starters, main activities, and plenaries
- Varied question formats — short answer, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, calculation, explain-your-reasoning
- Strong instruction-following on complex, multi-part requests
- Accurate level calibration for the age or ability you specify
- Clean, ready-to-use output — the resource you asked for, no filler
It identifies itself as Vector, a teaching assistant by MikaLabs.
Example prompts
- “Create a differentiated worksheet on Pythagoras’ theorem with three tiers, a mark scheme, and common misconceptions. No multiple choice.”
- “Write a double-lesson plan on photosynthesis for a lower secondary class, with objectives, a starter, a hands-on task, and a plenary.”
- “List the common misconceptions students have about why we have seasons, and how to correct each one.”
- “Explain electromagnetic induction three ways: for an 11-year-old, a 16-year-old, and a teacher.”
A note on scale
Vector-L1-4B is a compact 4-billion-parameter model built for school-level teaching, not university or research material. On very hard problems it may occasionally slip, so — as with any AI tool — review answer keys and factual content before using them with students.
Recommended settings
- Temperature: 0.7
- Top-p: 0.8
(Already set by default when you run the library version above.)
License
Apache 2.0.