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DFM Mimir v1: An Open HRM Delivering Frontier Performance at 1B Parameters Using Only Permissible Post-Training Data

Mimir v1 is an open 1B-parameter reasoning model trained with permissible post-training data. It is relevant for compact or Danish deployments, though the abstract supplies no benchmark scores.

arXiv · Aug 13, 2026
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Mimir v1 is a **1B-parameter** language model based on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model architecture and released on Hugging Face. Its training mixture uses **161 datasets**, with permissible post-training data.

Practical Implication

The authors evaluate it across **20 benchmarks** covering English, math and code, and Danish. Builders considering compact or Danish-language models now have an openly available candidate whose data sourcing is a stated design constraint.

Agent-Ready Context
Mimir v1 is a **1B-parameter** language model based on the Hierarchical Reasoning Model architecture and released on Hugging Face. Its training mixture uses **161 datasets**, with permissible post-training data.

The authors evaluate it across **20 benchmarks** covering English, math and code, and Danish. Builders considering compact or Danish-language models now have an openly available candidate whose data sourcing is a stated design constraint.

The paper claims gains over HRM-Text 1B and competition with larger Qwen and Gemma models, but the supplied material includes no task-level scores, licenses, latency, or hardware results. Those details need checking before model selection.
Connected Context · Feed7 Judgment

This adds an open, compact model candidate whose permissible-data constraint and Danish evaluation broaden selection criteria beyond English benchmark performance and parameter scale. It supports testing whether a 1B hierarchical architecture can cover reasoning, code, and regional-language needs, but the absence of task scores, licensing details, latency, and hardware results prevents comparison with larger open or hosted alternatives.

Data Quality Is the Compute Multiplier — Ari Morcos, DatologyAIThe data-quality candidate argues that curation and task matching can substitute for some scale; Mimir makes data permissibility and a 161-dataset mixture part of that compact-model proposition, though it supplies insufficient scores to quantify the effect.The Base Model Is Dead — Varun Singh, Arcee AIThe base-model discussion says code and reasoning priors increasingly depend on data composition; Mimir provides a concrete small-model case spanning code, math, English, and Danish, but does not reveal which mixture choices produced its claimed gains.Local Models: Trust, Control, Optimization — Carter Abdallah, NVIDIAMimir supplies an openly available model for the ownership and customization strategy described by the local-model candidate, while its missing license and serving measurements leave key governance and operational checks unresolved.Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI GatewayBoth invite evaluation of smaller models for capable workloads, but Mimir emphasizes open release, permissible training data, and Danish coverage while Inkling emphasizes routed multimodal and tool-use features; neither supplied record establishes workload-level efficiency parity.
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Uncertainty
The paper claims gains over HRM-Text 1B and competition with larger Qwen and Gemma models, but the supplied material includes no task-level scores, licenses, latency, or hardware results. Those details need checking before model selection.