A 26M-parameter tagger beat our fine-tuned small LLMs at grammar correction, and runs in ~4 ms on a phone
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TL;DR: For grammar correction inside a phone keyboard (on-device only, no network), we compared LoRA fine-tunes of Gemma 3 270M and SmolLM2 360M with a GECToR-style edit tagger we trained from scratch. The 26M tagger (v1.5) wins on accuracy (F0.5 0.799 vs 0.663) and changes correct text 2.4% of the…
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- 2026-10-12 18:46 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
A 26M-parameter tagger beat our fine-tuned small LLMs at grammar correction, and runs in ~4 ms on a phone