Virtuoso-Small: A Compact, Business-Oriented LLM

Virtuoso-Small is the inaugural public release in Arcee.ai's Virtuoso model series, featuring 14.8 billion parameters. It is engineered to deliver advanced generative AI capabilities in an efficient and accessible package, making it suitable for organizations and developers seeking high-quality instruction-following and complex reasoning.

Key Capabilities

• Compact and Efficient: Optimized for smaller hardware configurations, Virtuoso-Small provides strong performance without requiring extensive resources.
• Business-Oriented: Tailored for enterprise use cases such as customer support, content generation, and technical assistance.
• Scalable Ecosystem: As part of the Virtuoso series, it is interoperable with larger models like Virtuoso-Medium and Virtuoso-Large, allowing for seamless scaling.

Performance Highlights

Evaluations on the Open LLM Leaderboard show an average score of 39.43. Specific metrics include:

• IFEval (0-Shot): 79.35
• BBH (3-Shot): 50.40
• MATH Lvl 5 (4-Shot): 34.29
• MMLU-PRO (5-shot): 46.57

Deployment Options

Virtuoso-Small is available under the Apache-2.0 license for local deployment or via API at models.arcee.ai. GGUF versions are also available.