arco consistently outperforms every sota model below 600m parameters on average, outperforms some base 1b models and is competitive with the best ones. arco is a merge of multiple internal models fine-tuned on a diverse set of styles and finally merged with the several models (including palmer-004-turbo), followed by a merge with base model to preserve knowledge.
#### benchmarks
zero-shot evaluations performed on current sota ~0.5b models.
| Parameters | Model | MMLU | ARC-C | HellaSwag | PIQA | Winogrande | Average |
| -----------|--------------------------------|-------|-------|-----------|--------|------------|---------|
| 0.5b | qwen2 |**44.13**| 28.92| 49.05 | 69.31 | 56.99 | 49.68 |
| 0.5b | danube3-base | 24.81| 36.18| 60.46| 73.78 | 61.01 | 51.25 |
| 0.5b | palmer-turbo | 27.36|35.58|61.79|73.67 | 61.17 |51.91|
| 0.5b | arco |26.17|**37.29**|**62.88**|**74.37**|**62.27**|**52.60**|
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