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When to fine-tune a small model for one narrow task

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Replace a frontier model with a fine-tuned small open model on one narrow, high-volume ancillary task, after a prompted but untrained open model already looks close and an online test holds your hard-resolution rate. Fergal Reid described that swap for query canonicalization: a fine-tuned 14 billio…

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  1. 2026-10-22 15:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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