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Evolution Strategies Fine-Tuning: What Dropping Backprop Buys, and Where the Bill Moves
Evolution strategies fine-tuning updates every LLM weight with no backprop: what the 2025-2026 papers measured, what they skipped, and when ES beats GRPO.
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Vision Encoder Disaggregation: When Your Encoder Should Be Its Own Service
Vision encoder disaggregation splits multimodal serving into encode, prefill and decode tiers. When it pays, when it loses, and the cheaper fixes to try first.
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Measure image token cost on Qwen3.8-27B: tokens, prefill, KV growth, and DocVQA accuracy across resolution tiers on one 24GB card. Find the knee, not the peak.
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Post-Training Modern LLMs
Pretraining produces a model that predicts text. Post-training is what turns it into something you can ship. This path walks the levers in the order you would actually reach for them: supervised fine-tuning and adapters, preference optimization without a reward model, the reinforcement-learning map from RLHF to verifiable rewards, RL against a verifier that cannot be talked out of its answer, and finally the inference-time compute that picks up where training leaves off. Every step names the ceiling it runs into.
Evaluating LLMs Honestly
A leaderboard number is a hypothesis, not a result. This path builds the habit of asking what a benchmark measured before quoting what it reported, starting with contamination and judge bias, moving through a case where the advertised figure and the measured one diverge, then to agents where a single passing run tells you almost nothing, and ending where the eval harness itself turns into attack surface.