04:00
2026-07-21
arxiv.org
large-language-models
Democratizing AI with Small Language Models: Structured Benchmarking and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Local Deployment
A new study from arXiv evaluates nine open-weight small language models between 135 million and 3 billion parameters on a 1,085-example, 16-topic benchmark, finding that Qwen Coder 3B achieves the hig…