Empowering Small Language Models With Chain of Thought and Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning for Efficient Deep Reasoning
: Small Language Models (SLMs) run faster and fit on modest hardware, yet solving multi-step logic problems has traditionally been difficult for them. This work investigates a systematic, multi-model framework that combines Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) parameter-efficient fine-tuning...