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In Defense of Small Models
Points of View, Volume VI
A book by Alpesh Nakrani
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- Pages
- 87
- Chapters
- 11
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- PDF · 15.7 MB
01/Overview
What's in the book
The frontier gets the headlines; the small model gets the margin. Why most production value lives below the state of the art.
02/Inside the PDF
Table of contents
PDF page- INTIntroduction: The Demo Was a Lie9
- 01What Small Actually Means15
- 02Capability Waste in Production AI21
- 03Making the Task Smaller27
- 04The Workhorse Tasks: Classify, Extract, Route, Search33
- 05Adapting Small Models: Fine-Tuning and Distillation39
- 06Quantization and the Cost of Compression45
- 07Latency as a Product Feature51
- 08Privacy, Local Inference, and Data Residency57
- 09Routing: Small First, Large When Needed62
- 10Proving Good Enough With Evals68
- 11When Small Models Are Wrong74
- ENDConclusion: A Sign of Maturity, Not a Lack of Ambition79
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