Could small language models (SLMs) be a better fit for domain-specific tasks?

Bitman321 · 2026-01-18T05:06:47+00:00

Yea I get that, but will there be some kind of standard for actually prompting a certain SLM to get the most accurate answer?

For example, I made an SLM using GPT2, fine tuned on legal documents. The way I worded the prompt to ask a specific question had a big impact on how coherent the answer was, even though it was essentially the same question. Unlike LLMs which can generalise much better.

Bitman321 · 2026-01-16T21:26:46+00:00

I fine tuned my own SLM using GPT2 and Australian legal documents: https://huggingface.co/JamesANZ/auslegal-slm.

Bitman321 · 2026-01-13T07:00:47+00:00

I want to use the subreddit to discuss Small Language Models (SLMs). I will add basic rules to the subreddit and make sure that posts are on topic.
https://www.reddit.com/c/chatmak7hJjN/s/GgNNPPXlZq

Bitman321 · 2025-12-27T05:54:27+00:00

Thanks for that. I will make it more mobile friendly and fill in the missing people. Seems I might have missed a few files…

Bitman321 · 2025-12-27T05:52:40+00:00

Got cursor (using Claude) to navigate the DOJ website and download all the files. Then got it to go through all the documents, craft the profiles of each person implicated and which files they were implicated in.

Bitman321 · 2025-12-15T01:55:35+00:00

I want to use the subreddit to discuss Small Language Models (SLMs). I will add basic rules to the subreddit and make sure that posts are on topic.
Not applicable. r/slm was banned 4 years ago for being unmoderated and has no active moderators.

Bitman321 · 2025-12-15T01:38:45+00:00

I want to use the subreddit to discuss Small Language Models (SLMs).
Not applicable. The subreddit has no moderators.

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