arXiv Machine Learning

Evaluating Open-Weight LLMs for Turkish Domain Documents Under Retrieval and Hardware Constraints

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

RAGAL: A Frugal, Fully Local Retrieval-Augmented Assistant for Technical Support at a Government Agency

Public institutions hold large volumes of sensitive documents and support tickets that cannot leave the premises, ruling out cloud-hosted language models entirely. We report on RAGAL, a retrieval-augmented assistant for the technical-support team of AFIR, the Romanian Agency for Financing Rural Investments, built and operated under three hard constraints: zero data egress (no external API calls, even for synthetic data), a read-only mandate (the assistant drafts, humans execute), and a single 8 GB consumer laptop as the only development and training machine.

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 Computation and Language
Sep 1

Cloud and On-Premises Deployment of Uzbek Legal RAG via Targeted Retriever Fine-Tuning

The paper reports on building a retrieval‑augmented legal assistant for Uzbek that operates in both a managed cloud service and an on‑premises deployment. It introduces two new domain benchmarks—one for retrieval and one for end‑to‑end QA—and shows that fine‑tuning an open‑weight text embedder (UTE‑1) can close the performance gap with proprietary models under tight cost and latency constraints. The authors also provide negative results for a QLoRA experiment and release the benchmarks, evaluation code, and the fine‑tuned embedder for future low‑resource legal NLP work.

By Tatul Danielyan, Mariam Avetisyan, Hrant Davtyan
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

BudgetMem: Training-Free Selective Memory for Cost-Efficient Long-Context Processing in Language Models

arXiv:2511. 04919v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Processing long documents with large language models (LLMs) is expensive: a single query over a 100K-token document can cost from tens of cents to over a dollar in API fees, depending on the model, and memory grows linearly with context length.

By Chandra Vamsi Krishna Alla, Harish Naidu Gaddam, Manohar Kommi, Sheikh Nazib Ahmed
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

MAPLE: Metadata Conditioned LLM Pretraining for Locale-Aware Question Answering

The paper introduces MAPLE, a family of decoder‑only language models pretrained with document‑level geographic metadata such as source URL, country, and continent. MAPLE is evaluated on a new benchmark, LocalNewsQA, which tests whether models can switch answers when the locale changes. Experiments show that, with inference‑time metadata fixed, MAPLE outperforms metadata‑free controls in both answer switching and accuracy on locale‑dependent questions, and these gains grow with model size.

By Anjishnu Mukherjee, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios Anastasopoulos
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