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Rethinking Scale: Deployment Trade-offs of Small Language Models under Agent Paradigms

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Main Authors:	Wang, Xinlin, Brorsson, Mats
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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