## Batching by Length Instead of Looping Item by Item for SLM Optimization We finish off our short series on SLM optimization with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping item by item. Previous articles in this series discussed constraining output space as well as reusing the prompt prefix with a key-value cache, both framed as approaches to small language model (SLM) narrow automation optimization. Let's finish this series off with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping item by item. As in our previous articles, all benchmarks below use…