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The Ascent of Small Language Models
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Analysis of Small Language Models (SLMs), positioning them as a critical evolution in artificial intelligence that prioritizes efficiency and practical deployment over sheer computational scale. It explores their architectural foundations, outlining how techniques like knowledge distillation, pruning, and quantization enable their compact size and rapid inference. The source contrasts SLMs with Large Language Models (LLMs) across dimensions like cost, privacy, and performance on specialized tasks, highlighting SLMs' suitability for on-device and edge AI applications. Furthermore, it examines their emerging reasoning capabilities and strategies to enhance factual accuracy, such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Finally, the text surveys the current market landscape, identifying key industry players and the ethical considerations shaping the future development of these increasingly pervasive AI systems.
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