borealis-1B-instruct-preview: benchmark results
NB-AiLab at the National Library of Norway publishes Borealis 1B Instruct Preview, a Norwegian instruction fine-tune of google/gemma-3-1b-it. This is the experimental Transformers checkpoint fine-tuned on textual instructions, distinct from its GGUF and MLX conversion releases. Provider: National Library of Norway. Released 2026-01-31. Access: Open.
Aggregate Rating 1325 ± 33, rank #8242 of 10916 rated models, from 47 benchmark results.
Strongest benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Metric | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuroEval Faroese NLU - FoSent | 30.63 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 52.6 |
| EuroEval Danish NLU - Angry Tweets | 42.06 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 42.5 |
| EuroEval Swedish NLU - Swerec | 72.81 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 41 |
| EuroEval Norwegian NLU - Norec | 37.76 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 39.8 |
| EuroEval Icelandic Knowledge | 5.21 | Knowledge Average Score (%) | 37.1 |
| EuroEval Norwegian NLU - ScaLA NN | 7.82 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 36.6 |
| EuroEval Faroese NLU - FoQA | 29.01 | Character F1 (%) | 36 |
| EuroEval Swedish NLU - Multi Wiki QA SV | 52.08 | Character F1 (%) | 35.6 |
| EuroEval Danish NLU | 33.56 | NLU Average Score (%) | 34.7 |
| EuroEval Danish NLU - Multi Wiki QA DA | 52.88 | Character F1 (%) | 34.2 |
| EuroEval Icelandic NLU - NQII | 32.36 | Character F1 (%) | 33.7 |
| EuroEval Faroese | 24.02 | Average Score (%) | 31.9 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/model?slug=borealis-1b-instruct-preview · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-08.