What is Small language model (SLM)?

Small language model (SLM)

Small language model (SLM): A model small enough to run on a phone or a single GPU, adequate for routing, extraction and classification at a fraction of the cost.

Related terms

Large language model (LLM)
Program-aided language model (PAL)
Vision-language model (VLM)
Vision-language-action model (VLA)
Autoregressive model
Cascade (model cascade)
Consistency model
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP)

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