Yusuf Erdem Erdem

Projects, Models & Datasets

Models, datasets, demos and systems I've built or co-built, mostly open source.

YTU COSMOS lab

Models

ModernBERT-TR

A long-context (8,192 tokens) Turkish encoder with a family of specialized downstream models.

HF ↗Blog ↗

ChainFlow

A flow-matching drafter for lossless speculative decoding in vLLM: up to 2.5x faster on Qwen3.5 (4B to 27B), with Turkish-adapted checkpoints.

HF ↗Code ↗Project site ↗

Cosmos-LLaVA

Turkish's first large-scale multimodal datasets along with a vision-language instruction-following model.

HF ↗IEEE ↗

Turkish language models

A range of Turkish language models built on Llama, Gemma, E5, BERT, GPT and other architectures. More in the COSMOS Hugging Face organization.

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Datasets

ABSA-TR

Turkish Aspect-based sentiment analysis dataset. Built from native sources in the e-commerce, supplements, and movie domains.

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Guardrail-TR

About 405K Turkish prompts for safe/unsafe classification. Multi-label hazard categories covering 11 labels.

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Large clean Turkish web corpus

A cleaned 125 GB Turkish pretraining corpus built from CulturaX (ICMI 2025).

IEEE ↗

Turkish-LLaVA-Pretrain

Turkish multimodal pretraining dataset behind Cosmos-LLaVA.

HF ↗IEEE ↗

Turkish-LLaVA-Finetune

Turkish visual instruction fine-tuning dataset. One of the datasets behind Cosmos-LLaVA.

HF ↗IEEE ↗

turkce-kitap

Turkish conversations about book covers, for vision-language training.

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Projects

Optimizing LLMs for Turkish

Better data curation and training methodologies for Turkish language models.

IEEE ↗

Spatial reasoning via maze navigation

Teaching compact LLMs spatial reasoning through maze navigation (ICETAI 2026).

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Demos & tools

In-browser PII demo

ModernBERT-TR PII recognition running in the browser (ONNX).

Demo ↗

Android intent and slot demo

ModernBERT-TR intent and slot filling running natively on Android.

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