Preprint
Jul 2026
Trustworthiness Costs of Domain Adaptation in Small Language Models:A Cross-Architecture Empirical Study
The first systematic cross-domain, cross-architecture empirical study quantifying the trustworthiness cost of domain adaptation across three SLM architectures and challenging the assumption that replay-based and arithmetic-merge strategies transfer alignment to domain-adapted SLMs.
R. Paramkusham
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