Seonwu Kim


2025

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ixi-GEN: Efficient Industrial sLLMs through Domain Adaptive Continual Pretraining
Seonwu Kim | Yohan Na | Kihun Kim | Hanhee Cho | Geun Lim | Mintae Kim | Seongik Park | Ki Hyun Kim | Youngsub Han | Byoung-Ki Jeon
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track

The emergence of open-source large language models (LLMs) has expanded opportunities for enterprise applications; however, many organizations still lack the infrastructure to deploy and maintain large-scale models. As a result, small LLMs (sLLMs) have become a practical alternative despite inherent performance limitations. While Domain Adaptive Continual Pretraining (DACP) has been explored for domain adaptation, its utility in commercial settings remains under-examined. In this study, we validate the effectiveness of a DACP-based recipe across diverse foundation models and service domains, producing DACP-applied sLLMs (ixi-GEN). Through extensive experiments and real-world evaluations, we demonstrate that ixi-GEN models achieve substantial gains in target-domain performance while preserving general capabilities, offering a cost-efficient and scalable solution for enterprise-level deployment.