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Grounding small local models in offline Wikipedia instead of their own memory: what has worked for you?

The last months I've been building an offline desktop app, and one part has taught me more than everything else: getting small local models (3–4B) to answer from Wikipedia instead of from whatever they "remember". Here's where I ended up. There are no embeddings and no vector DB, which surprised me…

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  1. 2026-10-17 00:34 · r/LocalLLM
    Grounding small local models in offline Wikipedia instead of their own memory: what has worked for you?

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