Can a Tiny LLM Beat A Supervised Model?

1. Introduction Can a compact, fine-tuned LLM outperform a lightweight supervised model at structured extraction—specifically, parsing recipes from noisy, real-world web pages? That’s the technical challenge at the heart of this post, inspired by a question from a reader: Also I am super curious, about another experiment that I have no idea about, but seems like the general direction of how things…