Model comparison

Phi-3.5-mini vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Phi-3.5-mini leads 34.6 to 27.9.

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Phi-3.5-mini and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Phi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderMicrosoftMicrosoft
Noometry Index36.929.3
Released2024-08-162024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Results tracked532

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Category by category

Coding Phi-3.5-mini leads

Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct32.8%—
LiveBench Coding—20.3%
LMArena Coding—1101
BigCodeBench Complete38.5%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1100
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
PIQA81%—
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Math—17.6%
LMArena Math—1151
GSM8K86.2%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert—1067
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
BoolQ78%—
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1058
LMArena Chinese—1061
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Russian—1111
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
LMArena Instruction Following—1087

Long Context Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1088

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Phi-3.5-mini: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkPhi-3.5-miniPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text—1110
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
LMArena Multi-Turn—1068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Phi-3.5-mini better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#314); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Phi-3.5-mini or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Phi-3.5-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.6 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Phi-3.5-mini and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Phi-3.5-mini has 5 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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