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Automatic prompt optimization normally holds training data fixed, so repeated optimization only ever sees weaknesses present in those instances (arXiv 2609.15209). FORGE abstracts imperfect executions into reusable failure modes, synthesizes new training data through four mutation strategies, and feeds verified instances back into prompt search. Across eight benchmarks it improves the aggregate score 16.52 points over the unoptimized baseline, and the synthesized data transfer: all nine APO comparisons improve 2-9 points and all three GRPO comparisons 4-8 points under matched budgets.
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New batching algorithms enable ~7x, up to 12x+, longer-context GRPO training with no accuracy or speed penalty versus optimized FA3 and chunked-loss setups (Unsloth Docs). Qwen3-8B GRPO reaches 110K context on one 80GB H100 via vLLM plus QLoRA. For solo builders doing reasonin...
anuj0456/OpenArch has single-file implementations for GPT-2 XL, Llama 2/3/4 Maverick, OLMo 2, DeepSeek R1, Gemma 3, Mistral 3, Qwen 3, Kimi K2, GLM 4.5, GPT-OSS and PaliGemma, each making attention type, normalization and positional encoding explicit. Stated goal is clarity ov...
Document ingestion has been the ugly, underfunded stage of every RAG pipeline I've built. Mistral just made it a lot less ugly, and you can run it in your own VPC. On June 23, Mistral released OCR 4, a document-intelligence model that returns bounding boxes, block classificati...
Mistral's 119B MoE hybrid with native image input, 256k context, and configurable reasoning arrived to a lukewarm r/LocalLLaMA reception (531up, 231cmts). Top comment: "the last good Mistral was Nemo." A notable sentiment shift given Mistral's previous community esteem. Mistra...
Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 on April 2 with four model sizes (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense) under Apache 2.0. Multimodal (text, vision, audio). 256K context. Native thinking and tool-calling optimized for agentic workflows. Day-zero ecosystem support across vLLM, llama.cp...
arXiv 2607.12227 (Wang et al., incl. Hajishirzi, Tsvetkov, Dasigi) finds two methodological holes in the self-improving-agent literature: methods are never compared against simpler baselines at matched compute budgets, and final performance gets reported on the same public ben...
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