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  • Hacker News: voyage-code-3

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    Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: voyage-code-3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents voyage-code-3, a new embedding model optimized for code retrieval that significantly outperforms existing models in both performance and cost-efficiency. The introduction of Matryoshka learning and advanced quantization techniques allows for reduced storage requirements without compromising…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…

  • Hacker News: I Run LLMs Locally

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    Source URL: https://abishekmuthian.com/how-i-run-llms-locally/ Source: Hacker News Title: I Run LLMs Locally Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses how to set up and run Large Language Models (LLMs) locally, highlighting hardware requirements, tools, model choices, and practical insights on achieving better performance. This is particularly relevant for professionals focused on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/qvq/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out QvQ – Qwen’s new visual reasoning model Feedly Summary: I thought we were done for major model releases in 2024, but apparently not: Alibaba’s Qwen team just dropped the Apache2 2 licensed QvQ-72B-Preview, “an experimental research model focusing on enhancing visual reasoning capabilities". Their blog…

  • Hacker News: Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA)

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    Source URL: https://andrewkchan.dev/posts/yalm.html Source: Hacker News Title: Fast LLM Inference From Scratch (using CUDA) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive overview of implementing a low-level LLM (Large Language Model) inference engine using C++ and CUDA. It details various optimization techniques to enhance inference performance on both CPU…

  • Hacker News: Accelerated AI Inference via Dynamic Execution Methods

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00853 Source: Hacker News Title: Accelerated AI Inference via Dynamic Execution Methods Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This paper discusses innovative Dynamic Execution methods that optimize AI inference by improving computational efficiency and reducing resource demands. These methods can enhance performance in generative AI applications like large language models…

  • Hacker News: What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?

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    Source URL: https://neuralmagic.com/blog/24-sparse-llama-smaller-models-for-efficient-gpu-inference/ Source: Hacker News Title: What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document introduces Sparse Llama 3.1, a foundational model designed to improve efficiency in large language models (LLMs) through innovative sparsity and quantization techniques. The model offers significant benefits in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quantization matters

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/quantization-matters/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quantization matters Feedly Summary: Quantization matters What impact does quantization have on the performance of an LLM? been wondering about this for quite a while, now here are numbers from Paul Gauthier. He ran differently quantized versions of Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct through his Aider code editing…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/llm-gguf-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings Feedly Summary: llm-gguf 0.2, now with embeddings This new release of my llm-gguf plugin – which adds support for locally hosted GGUF LLMs – adds a new feature: it now supports embedding models distributed as GGUFs as well. This means you can…

  • Hacker News: Binary vector embeddings are so cool

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    Source URL: https://emschwartz.me/binary-vector-embeddings-are-so-cool/ Source: Hacker News Title: Binary vector embeddings are so cool Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses binary quantized vector embeddings, emphasizing their ability to retain high accuracy while dramatically reducing storage size for machine learning applications. This topic is particularly relevant for AI and infrastructure security…