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Flowchart showing the Small Language Model (SLM) development pipeline on a white background. The workflow progresses from Training Data to Text Tokenization, Transformer Layers, Model Optimization (Distillation, Quantization, and Pruning), Trained Small LFlowchart showing the Small Language Model (SLM) development pipeline on a white background. The workflow progresses from Training Data to Text Tokenization, Transformer Layers, Model Optimization (Distillation, Quantization, and Pruning), Trained Small L
Infographic illustrating the language model inference workflow in a two-row process. The flow begins with a user prompt, followed by tokenization, embeddings, transformer layers with self-attention and feed-forward networks, prediction of the next token,Infographic illustrating the language model inference workflow in a two-row process. The flow begins with a user prompt, followed by tokenization, embeddings, transformer layers with self-attention and feed-forward networks, prediction of the next token,

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