🚀 MERA: Model Evolution and Routing with Skill Adaptation for Agentic Systems at Scale
What if small models could improve themselves, not just be routed around?
MERA evolves both small-model skills and weights, guided by stronger models. Student failures become verified teacher demonstrations, reusable SkillBook procedures, and LoRA updates.
🔥 Results:
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B: 28.7% → 49.7% direct pass on coding tasks
Qwen3.5-2B on TAU-2: 14/35 (40.0%) → 18/35 (51.4%)
The adapted 2B model matches an unadapted 4B model
Small models don’t just get routed around.
They get better.
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