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DedeProGames 
posted an update 3 days ago
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Can small models program?

Although even if they are reasoning AIs, small AIs cannot create extensive and high-quality code, at least that's what is commonly thought.

We present OrionLLM/NanoCoder-0.6b, an AI with just 600 million parameters based on qwen3-0.6b and trained with the dataset nvidia/OpenCodeReasoning.

While not good at complex code, we observed a significant improvement in code generation (especially in Python code), demonstrating that, when trained correctly, small AIs can, in fact, program.

i have an idea of overfitting really small models to generate code in a specific language with directions of large models so as to gain huge amount of efficiency

If done in small pieces, and with good memory management, they can manage pretty decently.