As you can see, in every domain, the best SLM is able to find the same or better answers than an LLM in 90% or more of the cases, with an average across all domains of 98.6%. SLMs achieve this performance at energy and compute costs that are between 50% and 85% lower than for an LLM, depending on the SLM and hardware used in the computer.
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