We benchmarked 15 small language models across 9 tasks to find which one you should actually fine-tune. Here are the results.
r/LocalLLaMA
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Machine Learning
Generative AI
Open Source AI
AI Research
There are a lot of SLM options right now and picking the right base model for fine-tuning is a real decision. Qwen3, Llama 3.2, Gemma 3, SmolLM2, Liquid AI's LFM2 - each family has multiple size variants and it's hard to know which one will actually respond best to your