Small language model
SLM
A compact model that runs cheaply, quickly or on your own hardware. Often good enough for one narrow task — and easier to keep inside your walls.
01In short
A compact model that runs cheaply, quickly or on your own hardware. Often good enough for one narrow task — and easier to keep inside your walls.
02Video
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03Guide
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A step-by-step guide for “Small language model” goes here. Suggested outline:
- What it is — in one paragraph
- Why it matters in production
- How to do it — 3 to 7 steps
- Pitfalls we see in the field
04Checklist
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Four to eight things a team can tick before go-live.
05FAQ
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The three questions clients actually ask about “Small language model”.
06Related terms
BasicsOpen-weight modelA model whose trained weights are published so you can run and adapt it yourself. Not the same as open source: training data and code often stay closed.Training & adaptationDistillationTraining a smaller model to imitate a larger one. You keep much of the quality at a fraction of the cost.Training & adaptationQuantizationStoring a model’s weights with fewer bits so it needs less memory and runs faster, at a small cost in accuracy.
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