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A 0.8B model just beat a 2B model on ARC-Challenge (42.15%): Closed-form weight surgery beat multi-GPU SFT with 0 backprop (Independently verified on NVIDIA L4)

A few days ago we shared the idea behind DynamicTune: transferring the trajectory flow from a larger teacher model directly into a smaller student via closed-form linear algebra in ~12 minutes on consumer hardware. Zero backpropagation, zero training tokens, zero gradient descent. To eliminate loca…

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  1. 2026-10-06 09:41 · r/LocalLLaMA
    A 0.8B model just beat a 2B model on ARC-Challenge (42.15%): Closed-form weight surgery beat multi-GPU SFT with 0 backprop (Independently verified on NVIDIA L4)

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