{"slug": "domain-specific-small-language-models-manning", "title": "Domain-Specific Small Language Models (Manning)", "summary": "Manning Publications announced 'Domain-Specific Small Language Models' by Guglielmo Iozzia, a book teaching developers to build generative AI models optimized for specific fields using commodity hardware. The book covers fine-tuning, quantization, and deployment on devices like laptops and smartphones, targeting cost- or hardware-constrained environments.", "body_md": "|\nWhen you need a language model to respond accurately and quickly about a specific field of knowledge, the sprawling capacity of a LLM may hurt more than it helps. In this book Guglielmo Iozzia teaches how to build generative AI models optimized for specific fields. Perfect for cost- or hardware-constrained environments, Small Language Models (SLMs) train on domain specific data for high-quality results in specific tasks. In this book you’ll develop SLMs that can generate everything from Python code to protein structures and antibody sequences, all on commodity hardware.\n<ASIN:1633436705 >\nAuthor: Guglielmo Iozzia Publisher: Manning Date: May 2026 Pages: 376 ISBN: 978-1633436701 Print: 1633436705 Kindle: B0FSSMWPF8 Audience: Developers interested in machine learning Level: Intermediate Category: [Artificial Intelligence](/bookreviews/59-artificial-intelligence.html)\nTopics include:\n- Model sizing best practices\n- Open source libraries, frameworks, utilities and runtimes\n- Fine-tuning techniques for custom datasets\n- Hugging Face’s libraries for SLMs\n- Running SLMs on commodity hardware\n- Model optimization or quantization\n- ONNX and other quantization methods\n- Integrate SLMs into end-to-end applications\n- Deploy SLMs on laptops, smartphones, and other devices\n####\n**For more Book Watch just **[click](http://www.i-programmer.info/book-watch-archive.html).\n*Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. *\n**To have new titles included in Book Watch contact **[BookWatch@i-programmer.info](mailto:BookWatch@i-programmer.info)\nSubscribe to I Programmer's [Books RSS feed ](http://www.i-programmer.info/component/ninjarsssyndicator/?feed_id=2&format=raw)for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.\n** **\n[Bare Metal C](/bookreviews/5-c/16514-bare-metal-c.html)\nAuthor: Steve Oualline Publisher: No Starch Press Date: August 2022 Pages: 304 ISBN: 978-1718501621 Print: 1718501625 Kindle: B08YJB9BCF Audience: C programmers Rating: 3 Reviewer: Harry Fairhead Bare metal C sounds exciting and very basic. Time to find out how the machine really works.\n|\n[Algorithmic Thinking, 2nd Ed (No Starch Press)](/bookreviews/5-c/17483-algorithmic-thinking-2nd-ed.html)\nAuthor: Dr. Daniel Zingaro Publisher: No Starch Date: January 2024 Pages: 480 ISBN: 978-1718503229 Print: 1718503229 Kindle: B0BZGZHK3B Audience: C programmers Rating: 4 Reviewer: Mike James What exactly is algorithmic thinking?\n| | More Reviews |\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/domain-specific-small-language-models-manning", "canonical_source": "http://www.i-programmer.info/book-watch-archive/19000-domain-specific-small-language-models-manning.html", "published_at": "2026-07-16 19:43:56+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 20:42:32.643577+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Manning Publications", "Guglielmo Iozzia", "Hugging Face", "ONNX"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/domain-specific-small-language-models-manning", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/domain-specific-small-language-models-manning.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/domain-specific-small-language-models-manning.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/domain-specific-small-language-models-manning.jsonld"}}