arXiv AI

Punching Above Their Weight: Classification-Head Fine-Tuning of Tiny Language Models (TLMs) for Verifiable Multiple-Choice Tasks

arXiv:2607. 03801v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We define Tiny Language Models (TLMs) as models below roughly 3B parameters that fit on mainstream consumer devices.

arXiv AI
Jul 21

Democratizing AI with Small Language Models: Structured Benchmarking and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Local Deployment

arXiv:2607. 16202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI democratization is not primarily a question of matching frontier-scale generality; it is a question of whether capable models can be selected, audited, and specialized under hardware and governance constraints that ordinary institutions can actually satisfy.

By Daniel Cersosimo
arXiv AI
Jul 29

How Small Can You Go? A Controlled Study of LoRA Rank, Target Modules, and Quantization Trade-offs for Text-to-SQL on a 60M-Parameter Model

arXiv:2607. 25583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and low-bit quantization are now standard tools for adapting language models under tight compute budgets, yet their interaction is most often studied on billion-parameter models where the design space is expensive to explore.

By Mahendra Singh Rathor, Anagheem Azzam
arXiv AI
Jun 3

CoEval: Ranking Language Models for Custom Tasks Without Labeled Data or Trustworthy Benchmarks

arXiv:2606. 03650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing or ranking language models for a specific application is hardest when no task-specific labeled data exists, and standard public benchmarks cannot be trusted, their items having likely leaked into pretraining, so scores reflect memorization rather than fitness.

By Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 28

How Small Can You Go? A Controlled Study of LoRA Rank, Target Modules, and Quantization Trade-offs for Text-to-SQL on a 60M-Parameter Model

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and low-bit quantization are now standard tools for adapting language models under tight compute budgets, yet their interaction is most often studied on billion-parameter models where the design space is expensive to explore. We ask a complementary question: on a specific, fully reproducible 60M-parameter encoder-decoder model (T5-small) and a single-table text-to-SQL benchmark (WikiSQL), how much task accuracy does each efficiency knob actually cost?

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 21

Sub-Billion, Super-Frontier: Small Language Models Rival Zero-Shot Frontier LLMs on General and Literary Relation Extraction

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong relation extraction (RE), but their computational demands and reliance on proprietary APIs limit deployment in resource-constrained or privacy-sensitive settings. We investigate how far small language models (SLMs) can close this gap across general-domain and literary text.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Domain-Adapted Small Language Models with Hybrid Post-Processing: Achieving Cost-Efficient, Low-Latency Multi-Label Structured Prediction via LoRA Fine-Tuning on Scarce Data

arXiv:2606. 05781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deploying frontier large language models (LLMs) for domain-specific structured evaluation tasks often incurs substantial latency, cost, and data privacy overhead.

By Srinivasan Manoharan, Dilipkumar Nallusamy, Sachin Kumar, Haifeng Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 12

A Cost-Efficient Routing Pipeline for Multilingual Short-Text Classification Using Small Language Models

arXiv:2608. 10939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual short-text classification supports operational systems such as content moderation, customer support routing, and intent recognition, yet aggregate evaluation often hides large differences between high-resource and low-resource languages.

By Wajdi Ben Saad, Safa Madiouni
arXiv AI
Jun 17

TuneAhead: Predicting Fine-tuning Performance Before Full Training Begins

arXiv:2606. 17660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is compute-intensive and error-prone: model performance depends sensitively on data quality and hyperparameter choices, and na\"ive runs can even degrade model performance.

By Yuxiang Luo, Haonan Long, Chen Wang, Qiqi Duan, Xiaotian Lin, Yanwei Xu, Yuyu Luo, Weikai Yang, Nan Tang