Small language model
A language model optimized around fewer parameters or lower resource requirements.
What Small language model does not show
“Small” has no universal threshold and does not by itself mean local, private, or weak.
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Questions about Small language model
What is Small language model?
A language model optimized around fewer parameters or lower resource requirements.
What does Small language model not show or guarantee?
“Small” has no universal threshold and does not by itself mean local, private, or weak.
Which area of the glossary does Small language model belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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