{"slug": "tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models", "title": "TINY_SCHILLER: A Drop-In German Drama Corpus for Small Language Models", "summary": "A new 2.07-megabyte single-file German drama corpus, tiny_schiller, provides a drop-in counterpart to Karpathy's tiny_shakespeare for small language model prototyping, fine-tuning, and education. The corpus contains eleven public-domain Schiller dramas sourced from DraCor's GerDraCor export (CC0) and includes character-level, GPT-2 byte-pair encoding, and cl100k_base tokenization splits, enabling small language models to access German literary text with a single line of code.", "body_md": "arXiv:2607.19992v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: tiny_schiller closes the small-language-model prototyping, fine-tuning, education, and research gap for German literary text, providing a single-file, drop-in counterpart to Karpathy's tiny_shakespeare. The available German literary corpora are larger and richer, but require parser engineering before a single line of training or fine-tuning code can run. tiny_schiller is a 2.07-megabyte single file of eleven public-domain Schiller dramas, sourced from DraCor's GerDraCor export (CC0) and processed by deterministic parser engineering. Character-level, GPT-2 byte-pair encoding, and cl100k_base tokenization splits, an instruction-formatted dialogue-completion split, and 89 per-character persona splits load from a single HuggingFace call. A small language model literally reaches German literary text in one line of code.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/tinyschiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-languag-ic32", "published_at": "2026-07-23 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 04:05:13.407105+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "natural-language-processing", "ai-research", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["tiny_schiller", "tiny_shakespeare", "DraCor", "GerDraCor", "Schiller", "Karpathy", "HuggingFace", "GPT-2"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tiny-schiller-a-drop-in-german-drama-corpus-for-small-language-models.jsonld"}}