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license: apache-2.0
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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](https://huggingface.co/arcee-ai/arcee-lite-GGUF)

## 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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