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Are "small reasoning models" the next big shift? What should we actually be measuring?

For a model running locally on a fairly narrow task, how much general knowledge do we actually need, and how much reasoning capability could we get without it ? SRMs are interesting for obvious reasons, but I went down this rabbit hole after listening to Ben Lorica's (advisor at Databricks) chat wi…

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  1. 2026-10-06 16:12 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Are "small reasoning models" the next big shift? What should we actually be measuring?

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