News

Research

Boole-1.7B vs other state-of-the-art small language models.

Boole-1.7B

Hyochan Chong

Precision Numerics,

Boole-1.7B is 13.9x smaller, 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B model. It overall outperforms PrismML's 1-bit Bonsai-1.7B and and state-of-the-art small language models on 10 different math, code, reasoning, and tool-calling tasks.

RaBiT method visualizations

RaBiT: Residual-Aware Binarization Training for Accurate and Efficient LLMs

Youngcheon You*, Banseok Lee*, Minseop Choi, Seonyoung Kim, Hyochan Chong, Changdong Kim, Youngmin Kim, Dongkyu Kim

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),

RaBiT uses quantization-aware training (QAT), residual-aware optimization, and a dual-binary scheme to produce accurate, efficient binary large language models with performance comparable with state-of-the-art 2-bit quantization methods.

Honors and Awards

  • 1st place (rank 1/108), 2024 National AI Chip Competition ($28,000 prize)
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
  • Dean's List, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
  • United Nations Medal, United Nations, 2022
  • Peacekeeping Operations Medal, Ministry of National Defense, 2022