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Ministral 3

Abhinav Rastogi, Adrien Sad\'e, Alan Jeffares, Albert Jiang, Alexander H. Liu, Alexandre Cahill, Alexandre Gavaudan, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Am\'elie H\'eliou, Amos You, Andy Ehrenberg, Andy Lo, Anton Eliseev, Antonia Calvi, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Baptiste Bout, Baptiste Rozi\`ere, Baudouin De Monicault, Cl\'emence Lanfranchi, Corentin Barreau, Cyprien Courtot, Daniele Grattarola, Darius Dabert, Diego de las Casas, Elliot Chane-Sane, Faruk Ahmed, Gabrielle Berrada, Ga\"etan Ecrepont, Gauthier Guinet, Georgii Novikov, Guillaume Kunsch, Guillaume Lample, Guillaume Martin, Gunshi Gupta, Jan Ludziejewski, Jason Rute, Joachim Studnia, Jonas Amar, Jos\'ephine Delas, Josselin Somerville Roberts, Karmesh Yadav, Kartik Khandelwal, Khyathi Chandu, Kush Jain, Laurence Aitchison, Laurent Fainsin, L\'eonard Blier, Lingxiao Zhao, Louis Martin, Lucile Saulnier, Luyu Gao, Maarten Buyl, Margaret Jennings, Marie Pellat, Mark Prins, Mathieu Poir\'ee, Mathilde Guillaumin, Matthieu Dinot, Matthieu Futeral, Maxime Darrin, Maximilian Augustin, Mia Chiquier, Michel Schimpf, Nathan Grinsztajn, Neha Gupta, Nikhil Raghuraman, Olivier Bousquet, Olivier Duchenne, Patricia Wang, Patrick von Platen, Paula Kurylowicz, Paul Jacob, Paul Wambergue, Pavankumar Reddy Muddireddy, Philom\`ene Chagniot, Pierre Stock, Pravesh Agrawal, Quentin Torroba, Romain Sauvestre, Roman Soletskyi, Rupert Menneer, Sagar Vaze, Samuel Barry, Sanchit Gandhi, Sandeep Subramanian, Siddhant Waghjale, Siddharth Gandhi, Soham Ghosh, Srijan Mishra, Sumukh Aithal, Szymon Antoniak, Teven Le Scao, Th\'eo Cachet, Theo Simon Sorg, Thibaut Lavril, Thiziri Nait Saada, Thomas Chabal, Thomas Foubert, Thomas Robert, Thomas Wang, Tim Lawson, Tom Bewley, Tom Edwards, Umar Jamil, Umberto Tomasini, Valeriia Nemychnikova, Van Phung, Victor Jouault, Vincent Maladi\`ere, Virgile Richard, Wassim Bouaziz, Wen-Ding Li, William Marshall, Xinghui Li, Xinyu Yang, Yassine El Ouahidi, Yihan Wang, Yunhao Tang, Zaccharie Ramzi

Ministral 3 derives 3B, 8B, and 14B dense models through iterative pruning and distillation for constrained hardware.

arxiv:2601.08584 v1 · 2026-01-13 · cs.CL

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We introduce the Ministral 3 series, a family of parameter-efficient dense language models designed for compute and memory constrained applications, available in three model sizes: 3B, 8B, and 14B parameters... we present our recipe to derive the Ministral 3 models through Cascade Distillation, an iterative pruning and continued training with distillation technique.

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That the cascade distillation process produces models that retain high capability in instruction following, reasoning, and image understanding at the stated parameter counts, an assumption with no supporting benchmarks or details in the abstract.

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Ministral 3 releases 3B/8B/14B parameter-efficient language models with base, instruction, and reasoning variants derived via iterative pruning and distillation, including image understanding capabilities.

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[1] Pixtral 12b.arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07073, · arXiv:2410.07073

[2] GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints · arXiv:2305.13245

[3] Program Synthesis with Large Language Models · arXiv:2108.07732

[4] Qwen3-VL Technical Report · arXiv:2511.21631

[5] Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge · arXiv:1803.05457

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arxiv: 2601.08584 · arxiv_version: 2601.08584v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.08584 · pith_short_12: KM6EM2C5WHSI · pith_short_16: KM6EM2C5WHSI725U · pith_short_8: KM6EM2C5

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