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soycaporal

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About soycaporal

AI/ML Engineering, software engineering, hustler in general. All things AI and tech.

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    Comment #48896918

    mainly this is a portability and compatibility solution.. I think with GPU available deployments, it wouldn't benefit from ternary distillation. It would be a different problem dom…

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    Comment #48896893

    amazing.. glad to know this integration path worked fro you!

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    Comment #48825657

    very cool, I'll look into this. Thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #48825648

    the base model I clocked it at 5 ms per embedded on my mac studio. There is a mini variant (the demo version) that is sub - 2 ms. It could be a SIMD issue.. I'll look into this for…

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    Comment #48825607

    super cool use case! Hopefully it can provide quality embeddings + retrieval. Would love to learn to results/issues or feedback. Please feel free to file for issues on github

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    Comment #48821903

    The corpus is mainly trained in english, unfortunately no other languages have been included in the distillation training. Yes it would work like fuse.js, but unlocks semantic sear…

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    Comment #48813672

    awesome, noted, looking for capable teacher models to distill other architectures

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    Comment #48813667

    that's great! let me know if there is anyway I can support, or any specific use case a roadmap could address!

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    Comment #48813348

    It's entirely the QAT. The whole distillation process is quantization-aware from the start, so the ternary weights are learned rather than fitted after the fact. The only post-trai…

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    Comment #48813032

    CPU cycle maxxing, who said GPUs were special?

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    Comment #48812950

    thank you! hopefully it can unlock some novel applications, that would be cool

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    Comment #48812945

    ohh thanks for the report.. probably has to do with wasm runtime.. Will note this as a known issue

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    Comment #48812931

    love the idea! Will think of a way to host it probably on huggingface

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    Comment #48812237

    I think standardizing the runtime is pretty effective, it then open up portability

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    Comment #48812082

    gte-small outscores all-MiniLM-L6 on MTEB (~61 vs ~56 avg per the GTE paper). MiniLM is ternlight's teacher (ternlight holds 0.84 Spearman fidelity to teacher). I haven't run a hea…

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    Comment #48812053

    yes, you could run a 1 time indexing run on the server side, and just ship the embeddings to frontend

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    Comment #48811645

    Hobby project, I wanted to "ship a useful model in a web browser". so I distilled a small sentence encoder from MiniLM with ternary quantization-aware training. Also wrote the infe…

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