A Stanford paper finds API benchmark scores run 3.4 points higher than the same models in their chat apps. What that means for how I…
Hugging Face lifted a 350M model's structured-output score with 100 GRPO steps and no labels. The trick isn't the model, it's three reward functions you…
A 4-bit model just beat the 16-bit checkpoint it was quantized from. I break down quantization-aware healing, the numbers, and what it changes for local…
Sentence Transformers v6 makes ColBERT-style retrieval trainable on one consumer GPU. The numbers, two traps in the fine print, and when it beats dense embeddings.
Adding more few-shot examples can quietly make your LLM prompt worse. Here is what the over-prompting research found and how I size the example set…
SLM vs LLM in 2026: why most of your model calls do not need a frontier model, the small-first cascade pattern that cuts cost, and…
After two years of running RAG in production, here are the chunking strategies I actually use, the ones I dropped, and why chunk size is…