# Investing in Performance: Fine-tune small models with LLM insights - a CFM case study

DevFeed: [Investing in Performance: Fine-tune small models with LLM insights - a CFM case study](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/investing-in-performance-fine-tune-small-models-with-llm-insights-a-cfm-case-study-7139.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/cfm-case-study>)

Author: Oussama Ahouzi; champonnois; Jérémy L'Hour; Pirashanth Ratnamogan; Bérengère Patault; Morgane Goibert

Published: 2024-12-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fine-tuning.md>), [inference-endpoints](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/inference-endpoints.md>), [hugging face](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugging-face.md>), [argilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/argilla.md>), [llama](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llama.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [AI, ML & Data Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>), [Finance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/finance.md>), [Meta](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/meta.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>)

Tags: [argilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/argilla.md>), [case-studies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/case-studies.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [expert-support](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/expert-support.md>), [expert-support-program](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/expert-support-program.md>), [financial-applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial-applications.md>), [fine-tuning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fine-tuning.md>), [inference-endpoints](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference-endpoints.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

A case study of Capital Fund Management's use of open-source LLMs to improve financial named entity recognition. It covers LLM-assisted labeling, fine-tuning smaller models with curated datasets, and deployment on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints to balance accuracy, cost, and scalability.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.