LAYER 4 · APPLIED AI · STAGE 4

Fine-tuning SLMs for FDEs

Quick answer

Adapting small language models to a narrow task. Sometimes cost, latency or data rules call for a small model on the customer's own infrastructure.

Practise it

  1. 1. Prepare a clean instruction dataset
  2. 2. Fine-tune a small model on one task
  3. 3. Compare it with a prompted large model

Where it sits

Stage 4 of the roadmap: Applied AI. You can build an LLM feature on private data and prove it works.

Portfolio projects

Serve a small model on client infra