2026
Mapping the Efficiency Landscape of Small Language Models
Fabian Reichwald, Lukas Schiesser, Christiane Plociennik, Leonhard Kunz, Simon Pukrop, Martin Ruskowski +1
IJCAI 2026
Large language models (LLMs) dominate both everyday and specialized applications, but their high computational demand, energy consumption, and privacy risks are increasingly critiqued. Small language models (SLMs) mitigate these drawbacks and are gaining momentum in scenarios where full LLM capabili