Terminus-4B: Can a Smaller Model Replace Frontier LLMs at Agentic Execution Tasks?

arXiv:2605.03195 · cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-05-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-05-04

Updated: 2026-10-25

Terminology

• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 26 episodes

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