Microsoft Phi-4 14B Reasoning Model: Synthetic Data Foundations & Ollama / ONNX Local Serving

🔬 Microsoft Phi-4’s data-driven philosophy

Microsoft Phi-4 (14B) proves thatdata quality is far more important than simply stacking parameters. Through carefully curated synthetic textbook data and multi-stage direct preference optimization (DPO), Phi-4 reaches industry-leading standards in mathematical reasoning, code logic, and long text retrieval evaluations.

⚡ Image pulling and Ollama/ONNX deployment

# Mirror pulls official weight
export HF_ENDPOINT="https://hf-mirror.net"
huggingface-cli download microsoft/phi-4 \
  --local-dir /data/models/phi-4 \
  --local-dir-use-symlinks False

# Ollama terminal out-of-the-box experience (requires approximately 9GB of video memory)
ollama run phi4