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Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't
新浪开源VibeThinker-3B：推理可压缩，事实知识不能
Sina's open model VibeThinker-3B aims to show reasoning compresses well but factual knowledge doesn't
The DecoderSina Weibo's VibeThinker-3B has just three billion parameters but matches models like DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 on math and coding benchmarks. Those models are up to 333 times larger. The secret isn't size but multi-stage post-training. The researchers propose a hypothesis based on their findings: logical reasoning compresses well into small models, but broad world knowledge does not.
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Context
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