In my experience, the facts that are compressed away in small models are ones you don’t need them to memorize. They need familiarity with the essential concepts

In my experience, the facts that are compressed away in small models are ones you don’t need them to memorize. They need familiarity with the essential concepts in a field, so that they will have better comprehension of material put into the context (and make better retrieval decisions). They don’t need to know very particular details which are a hallucination risk and should be derived from the context instead.