Bonsai reveals three major differentiators in the lightweight language model:
Technical Architecture Advantages
- Three-valued compression ratio: Model size is only 1/5-1/8 the size of a model of the same parameter size.
- Llama-Mistral hybrid architecture: Combining the structural stability of Llama with the efficiency of the Mistral participleizer
performance
In official benchmarks:
- Surpassed MobiLlama 0.5B (44.25) and Qwen 0.5B (45.61) with a 46.96 average score
- Common sense reasoning tasks such as ARC-c (33.36) and PiQA (70.24) were outstanding performers
Application Characteristics
- Edge Compatibility: Reasoning up to 18 tokens/second on Raspberry Pi 4B
- Data efficiency: SOTA level with only 5B token training data
- Open source friendly: Provide complete training code for model compression and support secondary development
These features make it one of the best open source language models available for embedded deployments.
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