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Instructional precision at small scale raises a key question: how compact can cognition become without losing interpretive depth?
Phi-3 Mini operates in a regime of minimal tension — where clarity, brevity, and semantic load must coexist. This invites reflection on compression not just as an engineering goal, but as an epistemic constraint.
In low-parameter models, instructional clarity becomes a design challenge: how to encode guidance that remains robust across contexts, without overfitting to formality or collapsing nuance.
Would be curious to hear how others approach this balance in compact architectures.