Ministral 3 research paper by Mistral AI, 2026
Mistral AI · Reasoning · Jan 13, 2026 · 80 citations · 66 upvotes · unverified
What it shows
The Ministral 3 series consists of parameter-efficient dense language models with three sizes (3B, 8B, 14B) and three variants per size, trained using cascade distillation for compute-constrained applications.
By Alexander H. Liu, Kartik Khandelwal, Sandeep Subramanian and 117 more · arXiv 2601.08584 · PDF
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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 80, 11 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 66 · Hugging Face
- Lab
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