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**Update** Either I had some wrong numbers plugged in to estimate benchmark numbers from comparator, or the benchmark changed. Virtuoso Small v2 at 41.07 average is still very impressive, especially for writing draft copy for business purposes, while Lamarck remains a chatty generalist-reasoning model.
I've felt confident that 14B Qwen finetunes and merges could break the 42.0 average, and Arcee **came close** with https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Small-2. Congratulations to @arcee-ai !
Just two months ago, it was easy to think that 14B had plateaued, that you could have high IFEVAL or high MUSR/MATH/GPQA at 14B, but not both. That barrier is completely shattered. I see a pathway to even better, and Virtuoso Small 2 is a big part of why. Very impressive work. This community would expect no less from Arcee.
Just look at this graph! Keep in mind, my merges here build on the first Virtuoso Small, and *-DS merges build on DeepSeek R1. There are some impressive merges in the pipe!
I've felt confident that 14B Qwen finetunes and merges could break the 42.0 average, and Arcee **came close** with https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Virtuoso-Small-2. Congratulations to @arcee-ai !
Just two months ago, it was easy to think that 14B had plateaued, that you could have high IFEVAL or high MUSR/MATH/GPQA at 14B, but not both. That barrier is completely shattered. I see a pathway to even better, and Virtuoso Small 2 is a big part of why. Very impressive work. This community would expect no less from Arcee.
Just look at this graph! Keep in mind, my merges here build on the first Virtuoso Small, and *-DS merges build on DeepSeek R1. There are some impressive merges in the pipe!
