Aurora Proelia: Small Models as a Serious Systems Constraint
A compact model program for testing deliberate reasoning, instruction following, and deployment tradeoffs on accessible hardware.
By North ML 7 min read
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Experiments, model lineages, and product decisions with the caveats kept attached. North shows the work instead of polishing away uncertainty.
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Targets are not benchmarks. Internal results are not independent validation.
Model quality, retrieval accuracy, latency, and cost change with prompts, graders, infrastructure, source availability, and the subject being researched.