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NVIDIA's Peter Belcak Explains Why SLMs (smaller LLMs) are the Future of Agentic AI (www.youtube.com)

submitted 6 hours ago by humanspiral@lemmy.ca to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works

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For coding AI, it could make sense to specialize models on architecture, functional/array split from loopy solutions, or just asking 4 separate small models, and then using a judge model to pick the best parts of each.

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[–] tal@olio.cafe 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to watch the video

I like most context in text rather than video form

but while I will very well believe that:

It's possible to optimize LLMs to make smaller models more effective than they are today. It would be very surprising if they were already optimal, given that the field is immature.
It's possible to do a series of smaller, specialized models and keep models not-relevant to the current context unloaded from VRAM

I believe that the "splitting into smaller specialized networks" approach is referred to as Mixture of Experts. This should improve memory efficiency for many problems.

...this is countered by the fact that once you free up resources, I also suspect that you can then go use those now-available resources to improve the model by shoveling more data into the model. And while there might be diminishing returns, I very much doubt that there is a hard cap on which one can get better results by throwing more knowledge at a problem.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah that tracks from what I've seen. There were some very interesting new approaches that could improve the base framework of all generative AIs but at this time MoE is the one important improvement that Deepseek pioneeredfor LLMs. I wonder if throwing knowledge at the problem might actually net us a bit more of an elegant solution but MoE is kind of the only thing that helps us scale LLMs.