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Mar
25
How Phi-4 Cracked Small Multimodality
Phi-4 extends the existing Phi model’s capabilities by adding vision and audio all in the same model. This means
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Mar
05
Training a Rust 1.5B Coder LM with Reinforcement Learning (GRPO)
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has proven to be a useful algorithm for training LLMs to reason and improve on
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Feb
11
Why GRPO is Important and How it Works
Last week on Arxiv Dives we dug into research behind DeepSeek-R1, and uncovered that one of the techniques they use
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Feb
05
🧠 GRPO VRAM Requirements For the GPU Poor
Since the release of DeepSeek-R1, Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has become the talk of the town for Reinforcement Learning
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Feb
04
How DeepSeek R1, GRPO, and Previous DeepSeek Models Work
In January 2025, DeepSeek took a shot directly at OpenAI by releasing a suite of models that “Rival OpenAI’s
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Jan
29
No Hype DeepSeek-R1 Reading List
DeepSeek-R1 is a big step forward in the open model ecosystem for AI with their latest model competing with OpenAI&
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Jan
27
Oxen v0.25.0 Migration
Today we released oxen v0.25.0 🎉 which comes with a few performance optimizations, including how we traverse the Merkle
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Jan
27
🌲 Merkle Tree VNodes
In this post we peel back some of the layers of Oxen.ai’s Merkle Tree and show how we
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Jan
27
🌲 Merkle Tree 101
Intro
Merkle Trees are important data structures for ensuring integrity, deduplication, and verification of data at scale. They are used
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Jan
21
arXiv Dive: RAGAS - Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment
RAGAS is an evaluation framework for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). A paper released by Exploding Gradients, AMPLYFI, and CardiffNLP. RAGAS
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