Compiling Agentic Workflows into SLM Weights

A new paper demonstrates that fine-tuning small language models (SLMs) on traces from frontier LLM agentic workflows can achieve near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost.

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1. AnnouncementJun 25, 2026, 05:31 PM 77%

   Research proposes compiling agentic workflows into SLM weights for near-frontier performance at 100x lower cost.

   A new paper demonstrates that fine-tuning small language models (SLMs) on traces from frontier LLM agentic workflows can achieve near-frontier performance at significantly lower cost.

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