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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 117/10

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Small Language Models for Efficient Agentic Tool Calling: Outperforming Large Models with Targeted Fine-tuning

Researchers demonstrated that a fine-tuned small language model (SLM) with 350M parameters can significantly outperform large language models like ChatGPT in tool-calling tasks, achieving a 77.55% pass rate versus ChatGPT's 26%. This breakthrough suggests organizations can reduce AI operational costs while maintaining or improving performance through targeted fine-tuning of smaller models.

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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 76/10

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SuperLocalMemory V3.3: The Living Brain -- Biologically-Inspired Forgetting, Cognitive Quantization, and Multi-Channel Retrieval for Zero-LLM Agent Memory Systems

Researchers have released SuperLocalMemory V3.3, an open-source AI agent memory system that operates entirely locally without cloud LLMs, implementing biologically-inspired forgetting mechanisms and multi-channel retrieval. The system achieves 70.4% performance on LoCoMo benchmarks while running on CPU only, addressing the paradox of AI agents having vast knowledge but poor conversational memory.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 176/10

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Ayn: A Tiny yet Competitive Indian Legal Language Model Pretrained from Scratch

Researchers developed Ayn, an 88M parameter legal language model that outperforms much larger LLMs (up to 80x bigger) on Indian legal tasks while remaining competitive on general tasks. The study demonstrates that domain-specific Tiny Language Models can be more efficient alternatives to costly Large Language Models for specialized applications.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 26/1012

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Democratizing GraphRAG: Linear, CPU-Only Graph Retrieval for Multi-Hop QA

Researchers present SPRIG, a CPU-only GraphRAG system that eliminates expensive LLM-based graph construction and GPU requirements for multi-hop question answering. The system uses lightweight NER-driven co-occurrence graphs with Personalized PageRank, achieving comparable performance while reducing computational costs by 28%.