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Vision / FIELD NOTES

Mamba vs ViT at the Edge: A Post-Mortem

Why we ripped out our Vision Transformers for State Space Models in production.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

When QLoRA Fails You

A deep dive into rank deficiency and catastrophic forgetting when fine-tuning Llama-3 70B.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Taming PPO for High-Frequency Execution

Notes on reward clipping and advantage estimation in noisy financial environments.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Agentic RAG: Moving Beyond Naive Retrieval

Why standard semantic search is dead, and how agents are taking over retrieval.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Scaling vLLM with Triton Inference Server

Achieving 5k tokens/sec on an A100 cluster.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Deep Learning on Tabular Data is Still a Meme

A retrospective on 10 Kaggle competitions and why XGBoost still reigns supreme.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Designing a Multimodal Coding Agent

Feeding screenshots and DOM trees into an autonomous web-testing agent.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

Distilling Intelligence via Synthetic Data

Using frontier models to generate high-quality Kaggle datasets for small model tuning.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Fighting Concept Drift in Production

Implementing an online learning pipeline for our recommendation engine.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Scaling Test-Time Compute: The New Paradigm

Why giving your agent more time to "think" beats training a larger model.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Diffusion Models for Time Series Forecasting

Replacing autoregressive models with score-based generative models for market prediction.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Multi-Node Training Nightmares

Debugging NCCL timeouts with Hugging Face Accelerate and FSDP.

Vision / FIELD NOTES

Zero-Shot Anomaly Detection using CLIP

Using Vision-Language models to detect manufacturing defects without labeled data.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

LoRA vs. Prompt Tuning vs. Adapters

Benchmarking Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

The Routing Collapse Problem in MoE

How to prevent your Mixture of Experts model from only using two experts.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Feature Selection in High-Noise Environments

Why adding more features usually destroys your trading model.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Running Transformers in the Browser via WebAssembly

Client-side ML is finally viable for real workloads.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Designing Long-Term Memory for Agents

Moving beyond simple sliding windows for LLM context.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Detecting Fraud with Graph Neural Networks

Modeling transaction networks to catch bad actors.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Writing Custom CUDA Kernels for Attention

When standard PyTorch operations aren't fast enough.

RL / FIELD NOTES

The Sim2Real Gap in Robotics RL

Why policies trained in simulation fail catastrophically in the real world.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

You Are Evaluating Your LLMs Wrong

Why human-in-the-loop and LLM-as-a-Judge are mandatory.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Deep Dive: Order Book Imbalance Signals

Extracting microstructural alpha from Level 2 data.

Vision / FIELD NOTES

VLMs for Autonomous Navigation

Combining visual inputs with semantic reasoning for path planning.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Securing Agentic Workflows Against Prompt Injection

How we sandboxed our code-executing agents.

Vision / FIELD NOTES

Federated Learning for Medical Imaging

Training deep neural networks without centralizing sensitive patient data.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

Squeezing 70B Performance into 8B Weights

Advanced knowledge distillation techniques for Large Language Models.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Parsing SEC Filings with FinBERT

Extracting sentiment alpha from 10-K and 10-Q reports.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Tuning HNSW Indexes for Vector Search

Balancing recall and latency in billion-scale vector databases.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Autogen vs LangGraph: A Developer Perspective

Choosing the right orchestration framework for multi-agent systems.

Vision / FIELD NOTES

Self-Supervised Vision with SimCLR

Learning visual representations without a single labeled image.

NLP / FIELD NOTES

DPO: The Death of RLHF?

Why Direct Preference Optimization is taking over model alignment.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Hidden Markov Models for Market Regimes

Making models aware of changing market volatility states.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Maxing Out GPU Utilization with TensorRT-LLM

Compiling Transformers for Nvidia hardware.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Building Resilient Scraping Agents

Using Playwright and VLMs to navigate dynamic single-page applications.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

PatchTST: Transformers that Actually Work for Time Series

Solving the noise problem in financial transformer models.

Vision / FIELD NOTES

Training Vision Models on Unreal Engine Data

Closing the reality gap with domain randomization.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

Reducing API Costs with Semantic Caching

Don't pay OpenAI twice for the same question.

RL / FIELD NOTES

Curriculum Learning for Complex RL Tasks

You can't teach a model to run before it knows how to walk.

Quant / FIELD NOTES

Differentiable Portfolio Optimization

Integrating Markowitz Portfolio Theory directly into neural networks.

Agents / FIELD NOTES

Multimodal RAG: Processing Charts and Tables in PDFs

Text-extraction ruins PDF structure. Vision models fix it.

MLOps / FIELD NOTES

The Agentic Data Flywheel

How to build systems that get smarter every time a user interacts with them.

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