borealis-270m-instruct-preview: benchmark results
NB-AiLab at the National Library of Norway publishes Borealis 270m Instruct Preview, a Norwegian instruction fine-tune of google/gemma-3-270m-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 1224 ± 37, rank #9457 of 10916 rated models, from 48 benchmark results.
Strongest benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Metric | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EuroEval Icelandic Common Sense Reasoning | 2.59 | Common Sense Reasoning Average Score (%) | 34.7 |
| EuroEval Faroese NLU - FoSent | 7.85 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 29.6 |
| EuroEval Faroese NLU - ScaLA FO | 0.61 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 28.3 |
| EuroEval Danish Summarization - Nordjylland News | 30.28 | chrF3++ (%) | 27.8 |
| EuroEval Danish Knowledge - Danish Citizen Tests | 22.01 | MCC (x100) | 27.2 |
| EuroEval Norwegian Summarization - NO Sammendrag | 23.66 | chrF3++ (%) | 26 |
| EuroEval Albanian NLU - ScaLA SQ | 0.59 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 25.7 |
| EuroEval Icelandic NLU - ScaLA IS | 0.01 | Matthews correlation coefficient (%) | 23.9 |
| EuroEval Icelandic Summarization - RRN | 25.27 | chrF3++ (%) | 23.4 |
| EuroEval Danish Knowledge | 9.51 | Knowledge Average Score (%) | 21.3 |
| EuroEval Danish Common Sense Reasoning | 2.21 | Common Sense Reasoning Average Score (%) | 19.9 |
| EuroEval Swedish Summarization - Swedn | 26.27 | chrF3++ (%) | 19.1 |
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