LLM Fine-tuning
Explains what fine-tuning actually changes in a model's behavior and how it compares with prompt optimization and RAG on cost and effect, helping teams decide whether training is worth it.
Explains what fine-tuning actually changes in a model's behavior and how it compares with prompt optimization and RAG on cost and effect, helping teams decide whether training is worth it.
Perplexity is a number that measures how uncertain a language model is about the next word. When a model continues a sentence, the more surprised it i...
Overfitting means a model memorizes its training data too well — noise and accidental details included — so it scores high on practiced material yet c...
Emergent abilities are task abilities that small models can barely perform at all, but that suddenly become possible once a model's scale crosses a ce...
AstaBrief 8B is the scientific report generation model that Ai2 (the Allen Institute for AI) open-sourced on October 2, 2026: give it a research quest...
AI alignment refers to the set of training and evaluation methods that, after pretraining, teach a large language model to respond the way humans expe...
On October 1, 2026, Modal announced on its official engineering blog that Modal Clusters, its multi-node GPU cluster product, is now generally availab...
SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning) is the "job training" a chat model goes through before going live: using thousands of "instruction-response" examples, it...
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is a technique that lets a large language model look things up before answering: before generating a response, th...