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2026

Q3 2026 Active Test Cycle3 Studies Published
LAB-103
2026Ongoing

TamaBench — Small Models, Long Horizons

A lightweight benchmark that puts a small or local model in a persistent virtual-pet sandbox. The agent must plan across three simulated days, use structured tools, manage money and supplies, and recover when delayed consequences go wrong.

Hypothesis: A focused automation harness can extract more useful autonomy from a small model by reducing unnecessary wake-ups, tool calls, tokens, and compute without changing the model itself.
Category: AgentsCredit: Pichetpong Muangsiri
LAB-102
2026Ongoing

EV Terminal — A Local AI Agent on Android

A small Android agent that loads Qwen3.5-0.8B only when a task needs model intelligence, routes deterministic work through explicit tools, and releases model resources when the task ends. It runs without an Ollama server or an always-on cloud backend.

Hypothesis: A small on-device model can still be useful when the harness owns routing, tool execution, and task lifecycle instead of asking the model to do every operation itself.
Category: AgentsCredit: Cheva1234
LAB-101
2026In Review

Local LLM Inference Under Limited VRAM — MoE vs Dense vs RAM Offloading

Exploratory study of Mixture-of-Experts, dense models, and RAM offloading on an NVIDIA RTX 3060 12 GB + 16 GB DDR4. Tests whether sparse MoE can use system RAM as a capacity tier: Gemma 4 26B-A4B stays interactive (12–19 tok/s at 16K), while the dense Mistral Small 3.1 24B collapses to 3.35 tok/s and Qwen-AgentWorld 35B-A3B reaches double digits only with high latency and memory pressure.

Hypothesis: A sparse MoE with low active parameters can use system RAM as a model-capacity tier more effectively than a dense architecture under GPU/RAM hybrid inference, so total parameter count alone does not predict throughput.
Category: Models

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