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What if you don't need backprop? Our 0.8B model just hit 42.15% on ARC-Challenge, beating stock Qwen3.5-2B and crushing 25k SFT distillation (Verified on NVIDIA L4)

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  1. 2026-10-06 10:44 · r/deeplearning
    What if you don't need backprop? Our 0.8B model just hit 42.15% on ARC-Challenge, beating stock Qwen3.5-2B and crushing 25k SFT distillation (Verified on NVIDIA L4)

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