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More Accurate or More Efficient? Evaluating Locally Deployed Compact Open-Weight Language Models for Mathematical Reasoning

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arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

Unified Deployment-Aware Evaluation of Open Reasoning Language Models

The paper presents a unified evaluation of seven open reasoning language models across four benchmarks (ARC-Challenge, GSM8K, MATH levels 1–3, and TruthfulQA MC1) using a consistent 238-example subset and three prompting strategies (zero-shot, chain-of-thought, few-shot CoT). It reports not only accuracy but also Wilson confidence intervals, latency, VRAM usage, weighted aggregate performance, Pareto-efficient points, prompt-sensitivity, and compatibility diagnostics, revealing that Gemma-4-26B-A4B tops the weighted score while Gemma-4-E4B offers a strong practical trade-off. The study emphasizes that model rankings shift with prompting strategy and that deployment trade-offs remain crucial, advocating for a deployment-aware, multi-objective evaluation framework rather than a single-score leaderboard.

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