HandsOnAid: Building and Evaluating an Offline First-Aid Assistant for Emergency Response Scenarios

arXiv:2611.14059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emergencies can occur where there is no phone signal and no ambulance nearby. A small language model on a phone can be helpful in such situations, but its advice needs to be safe and accurate. We built HandsOnAid, a 4-bit Gemma 2B model fine-tuned with QLoRA on FirstAidQA dataset, a corpus of 5,550 first-aid question-answer pairs. We compared seven configurations, including the base, 4-bit and 8-bit fine-tuned models, and versions with a length floor, safety gate, or retrieval. We used a 41-pair question-answer bank with medically reviewed refe

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