arcee-lite

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Arcee-Lite is a compact yet powerful 1.5B parameter language model developed as part of the DistillKit open-source project. Despite its small size, Arcee-Lite demonstrates impressive performance, particularly in the MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding) benchmark.

GGUFS available here

Key Features

• Model Size: 1.5 billion parameters
• MMLU Score: 55.93
• Distillation Source: Phi-3-Medium
• Enhanced Performance: Merged with high-performing distillations

About DistillKit

DistillKit is our new open-source project focused on creating efficient, smaller models that maintain high performance. Arcee-Lite is one of the first models to emerge from this initiative.

Performance

Arcee-Lite showcases remarkable capabilities for its size:

• Achieves a 55.93 score on the MMLU benchmark
• Demonstrates exceptional performance across various tasks

Use Cases

Arcee-Lite is suitable for a wide range of applications where a balance between model size and performance is crucial:

• Embedded systems
• Mobile applications
• Edge computing
• Resource-constrained environments

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Please note that our internal evaluations were consistantly higher than their counterparts on the OpenLLM Leaderboard - and should only be compared against the relative performance between the models, not weighed against the leaderboard.

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