Model Information
AQUA-7B is Kurma AI’s flagship 7-billion parameter large language model built exclusively for the global aquaculture industry. And it is the first large language model for the aquaculture. It is fine-tuned to deliver actionable insights for aquaculture species-specific farming, hatchery operations, water quality control, and disease management.
Trained on over 3 million real and synthetic aquaculture conversations (~1B tokens), AquaGPT-7B brings the power of domain-specific AI to fish farms, fish hatcheries, researchers, and Aqua-Tech innovators worldwide.
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Key Features
- Production Systems & Species Management: Covers ponds, tanks, cages, RAS, aquaponics, mariculture, and longlines. Delivers best practices for raising tilapia, catfish, carp, salmon, shrimp, crabs, oysters, trout, sea bass, and more supporting both smallholder and industrial farms.
- Genetics, Hatchery, and Early Life Stage Management: Guides advanced breeding, gene editing, hatchery design, spawning, larval care, nursery systems, live feed, transport, egg incubation, and biosecurity.
- Nutrition, Feeding, and Growth Optimization: Provides actionable protocols for water quality (temperature, oxygen, pH, ammonia, nitrite, salinity), and structured disease management: identification, vaccination, biosecurity, antibiotic use, and outbreak response.
- Water Quality, Health, and Disease Management: Provides actionable protocols for water quality (temperature, oxygen, pH, ammonia, nitrite, salinity), and structured disease management: identification, vaccination, biosecurity, antibiotic use, and outbreak response.
- Sustainable Aquaculture & Innovation: Promotes Promotes eco-friendly practices in waste management, environmental impact, biodiversity, climate adaptation, and guides adoption of new technologies AI, automation, sensors, water drones, and modern farm management.
- Water Quality, Health, and Disease Management: Advises on market trends, business planning, regulation, certification, traceability, and insurance. Covers best practices for harvesting, processing, cold chain, grading, packaging, contamination prevention, HACCP, and food safety.
Training Data Highlights
- Extension worker–farmer dialogues and field advisory logs
- FAO, ICAR, NOAA, and peer-reviewed aquaculture research
- Synthetic Q&A from 5,000+ aquaculture-focused topics
- Climate-resilient practices, hatchery SOPs, and water quality datasets
- Carefully curated to support species-specific culture methods
- Scale: Trained on approximately 3 million real and synthetic Q&A pairs, totaling around 1 billion tokens of high-quality, domain-specific data.
Model Specifications
- Base Model: Mistral 7B v0.3 (by Mistral AI)
- Training Tokens: ~1 Billion
- Released On 4, July 2025
- Data Volume: 3M+ expert-verified and synthetic instructions
- Origin: Made in America by Kurma AI
- Training Technic Model is trained via Fine-tuning using (LoRA-based) Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT).
- Training Infrastructure: Trained using 16 NVIDIA H200 GPU Multi Cluster Special Thanks to Nebius
Quickstart
Transformers (Google Colab/ jupyter)
- Install dependencies
!pip install transformers accelerate
- Log in with your Hugging Face access token
from huggingface_hub import login
- Import model from Huggingface
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_id = "KurmaAI/AQUA-7B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_id,
device_map="auto", # Automatically uses GPU if available
torch_dtype=torch.float16, # Use torch.float32 if no GPU
trust_remote_code=True
)
- Test Prompt
prompt = "What are the most common diseases in shrimp farming and how can they be prevented?"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=256)
response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)
🙏 Acknowledgements
This project was made possible thanks to:
- Nebius for providing a compute grant and access to NVIDIA H200 GPU servers, which powered the model training process.
- Mistral for sharing their open-source language models, which made this project possible.
- Kurma AI research team: including aquaculture experts, machine learning engineers, data annotators, and advisors who collaborated to curate, verify, and refine the domain-specific dataset used for fine-tuning this model.
⚠️ Disclaimer, Bias & Limitations
- Domain Bias: The model may reflect inherent biases present in the aquaculture data sources and industry practices on which it was trained.
- Temporal Data Limitation: Climate and environmental recommendations are based on information available up to 2024. Users should cross-check any climate-related advice against the latest advisories (e.g., IMD or NOAA updates).
- Potential Hallucinations: Like all large language models, Aqua-7B may occasionally generate inaccurate or misleading responses ("hallucinations"). Always validate critical, regulatory, or high-impact decisions with a qualified aquaculture professional.
Citation
@article{narisetty2025aqua,
title={AQUA: A Large Language Model for Aquaculture \& Fisheries},
author={Narisetty, Praneeth and Kattamanchi, Uday Kumar Reddy and Nimma, Lohit Akshant and Karnati, Sri Ram Kaushik and Kore, Shiva Nagendra Babu and Golamari, Mounika and Nageshreddy, Tejashree},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.20520},
year={2025},
doi={10.48550/arXiv.2507.20520}
}