Greg Schoeninger

Greg Schoeninger

Feb
05
🧠 GRPO VRAM Requirements For the GPU Poor

🧠 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

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

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&
27 min read
Jan
27
Oxen v0.25.0 Migration

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

🌲 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

🌲 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

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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Dec
26
The Best AI Data Version Control Tools [2025]

The Best AI Data Version Control Tools [2025]

Data is often seen as static. It's common to just dump your data into S3 buckets in tarballs
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Dec
23
OpenCoder: The OPEN Cookbook For Top-Tier Code LLMs

OpenCoder: The OPEN Cookbook For Top-Tier Code LLMs

Welcome to the last arXiv Dive of 2024! Every other week we have been diving into interesting research papers in
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Dec
09
LLaVA-CoT: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-By-Step

LLaVA-CoT: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-By-Step

When it comes to large language models, it is still the early innings. Many of them still hallucinate, fail to
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