# Techniques for Shrinking Language Models

DevFeed: [Techniques for Shrinking Language Models](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-shrink-a-language-model-without-making-it-too-dumb-17994.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-to-shrink-a-language-model-without-295>)

Author: ByteByteGo

Published: 2026-09-01T15:30:41Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [ByteByteGo](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bytebytego.md>)

Topics: [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

Tags: [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-models.md>), [techniques](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/techniques.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains why large language models can exceed consumer graphics-memory capacity and introduces three techniques intended to reduce model size while preserving output quality.

## Source excerpt

Models have grown roughly 100-fold in a few years, while consumer graphics memory has roughly doubled. It's not just a matter of tightening things up to make them fit.