Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 21B A3B ThinkingModel25/100 via “academic-benchmark-performance-and-expert-evaluation”
ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking is Baidu's upgraded lightweight MoE model, refined to boost reasoning depth and quality for top-tier performance in logical puzzles, math, science, coding, text generation, and expert-level academic benchmarks.
Unique: Achieves expert-level performance on academic benchmarks through combination of MoE architecture enabling efficient scaling, A3B reasoning for complex problem-solving, and training on curated academic datasets. Performance is optimized specifically for benchmark tasks rather than general-purpose capability.
vs others: Outperforms GPT-3.5 on mathematical and coding benchmarks while using 1/10th the parameters; however, may underperform on real-world tasks not well-represented in benchmarks