RETRIEVAL BEATS FINE-TUNING: ADAPTING A KAZAKH SMALL LANGUAGE MODEL FOR HISTORICAL QUESTION ANSWERING
Large language models (LLMs) have shown a strong ability to solve a wide range of language tasks. However, they became less practical for subject-specific applications, especially when dealing with low-resource languages. This paper shows an example of adaptation of small language models (SLMs) to solve subject-specifi...