Trisha Chakraborty

Find Before You Fine-Tune: A Diagnostic Study of Small LLMs for Cybersecurity QA

Shaswata Mitra, Subash Neupane, Trisha Chakraborty, Himanshu Tripathi, Sudip Mittal, Aritran Piplai, et al.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly fine-tuned for critical-domain Question-Answering (QA), yet choosing which small model to adapt, before paying the cost of adaptation, remains difficult. Fine-tuning can improve domain alignment, but it may also erode prior knowledge,…Read more