Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits

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A highly efficient AI model architecture using ternary weights (-1, 0, 1) that achieves competitive performance while requiring only 1.58 bits per parameter, enabling deployment on extremely constrained devices.

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