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Fine-tuned Qwen2.5 model outperforms Claude Opus-5 on JSON extraction task

A fine-tuned Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct model has outperformed Anthropic's Claude Opus-5 in extracting structured JSON from unstructured text for a specific domain. The smaller Qwen2.5 model achieved a 62% exact match accuracy and a 96.72% field match accuracy, significantly surpassing Claude Opus-5's 0% exact match and 81.81% field match on the same test set. This comparison highlights the effectiveness of domain-specific fine-tuning for smaller models, even against much larger, general-purpose frontier models, while also being more cost-effective and offering greater data control. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates that domain-specific fine-tuning of smaller models can surpass larger general-purpose models for specific tasks, offering cost and control benefits.

RANK_REASON Comparison of fine-tuned model performance against a frontier model on a specific task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Fine-tuned Qwen2.5 model outperforms Claude Opus-5 on JSON extraction task

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jebra ·

    Fine-Tuned Qwen2.5-1.5B vs Claude-Opus-5 for JSON Extraction

    <p>In our <a href="https://dev.to/jebra/fine-tuning-with-qlora-for-json-extraction-f8k">previous blog</a>, we described how we successfully fine-tuned Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct using QLoRA to extract structured JSON from unstructured text for a domain-specific use case. The results w…