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Small models
6 July 2026
· 3 min
Small models don’t know EARS. So I’m testing before I train.
I tried open models up to 12B on a simple job: rewrite an existing requirement into EARS notation without inventing anything. None did it reliably. Here is the evaluation I built before training a 350M helper model.
https://bbalaji.com/writing/tag/small-models/
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Try “agents”, “ISO 26262”, “MCP” or “FMEA”.