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Fine-Tuning Is Back: Small Models for Narrow Jobs
Hana Sato
- When
- Thursday, September 1710:15 AM – 10:45 AM · 30 min
- Where
- Workshop LabFort Mason Center, San Francisco
About this session
GPU prices fell and our inference bill did not. Where task-specific small models beat frontier APIs, how to run that comparison honestly, and the four jobs where fine-tuning is still the wrong answer.
Speaker
Hana Sato
Research Engineer, Aperture AI
Hana works on small-model distillation and spends most of her week reading evaluation traces. She was a computational linguist before that and it shows in her error taxonomies.
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