# Tiny Aya (3.35B)

> Compact multilingual model from Cohere with a rare parallel transformer block.

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | Cohere (Canada) |
| Released | 2026-02-13 |
| Decoder type | Dense |
| Family | Dense |
| Scale | 3.35B parameters |
| Context window | 8,192 tokens |
| Attention | GQA with 3:1 sliding-window attention |
| Layer mix | 27 sliding-window + 9 global |
| KV cache / token (bf16) | 72 KiB (Low) |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 |

**Key detail:** Runs attention and the MLP in parallel while mixing RoPE with NoPE.

## Architecture concepts

- [No Positional Embeddings (NoPE)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/nope.md): Some or all layers drop explicit positional encodings and rely on the causal mask.
- [Grouped-Query Attention (GQA)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/gqa.md): Several query heads share one key/value head, shrinking the KV cache with little quality loss.
- [Sliding Window Attention (SWA)](https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/concepts/swa.md): Some layers only attend to a local window of recent tokens instead of the whole context.

## Benchmark (Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index)

- AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2: total 4.8 (Scientific 2.6)

## Links

- Architecture diagram: https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/images/architectures/tiny-aya-3-35b.webp
- View in article: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/a-dream-of-spring-for-open-weight#%C2%A710-tiny-aya-a-335b-model-with-strong-multilingual-support
- From scratch: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/15_tiny-aya
- config.json: https://huggingface.co/CohereLabs/tiny-aya-base/blob/main/config.json
- Tech report: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.11510
- Source card (source of truth): https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/#card-tiny-aya-3-35b
- Web page: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/models/tiny-aya-3-35b/
- JSON: https://llm-atlas-7or.pages.dev/api/models/tiny-aya-3-35b.json

_Data from Sebastian Raschka's LLM Architecture Gallery (https://sebastianraschka.com/llm-architecture-gallery/). Synced 2026-11-04._