Search, Do not Guess: Teaching Small Language Models to Be Effective Search Agents
Search, Do not Guess: Teaching Small Language Models to Be Effective Search Agents explores A fine-tuning approach that trains small language models to reliably use search tools, achieving LLM-level performance on complex reasoning tasks.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in Agents.
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