Challenge: Large language models (LLMs) are computationally expensive and often require computational resources.
Approach: They propose a routing framework that seamlessly integrates a SLM and an LLM, or-lm, or a LLM into a single framework.
Outcome: The proposed routing framework reduces the computational costs by over 50% in dialogue state tracking tasks.

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