On-Device RAG Apps Crash or Stall on Low-End Android Phones
Developers building offline RAG Android apps face OOM crashes on low-end devices. Small models like SmolLM 135M cannot follow instructions well, while capable 2.5B models require too much RAM. There is no good middle ground for cross-device LLM inference.
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