Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

When choosing a large language model (LLM) for use in a particular task, one of the first things that people often look at is the model's parameter count. A vendor might offer several different ...

Hugging Face Inc. today open-sourced SmolVLM-256M, a new vision language model with the lowest parameter count in its category. The algorithm’s small footprint allows it to run on devices such as ...