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Andrew Drozdov
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Research Scientist @ Mosaic x Databricks. Adaptive Methods for Retrieval, Generation, NLP, AI, LLMs https://mrdrozdov.github.io/
I think ARR used to do this? Seems like it’s missing in the recent cycle(s).

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ARR Dashboard
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March 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
A corollary here is that a relevant context might not improve the probability of the right answer.
March 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
---Born To Add, Sesame Street
---(sung to the tune of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run)
March 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Embedding finetuning is not a new idea, but it's still overlooked IMO.

The promptagator work is one of the more impactful papers that show finetuning with synthetic data is effective.

arxiv.org/abs/2209.11755
Promptagator: Few-shot Dense Retrieval From 8 Examples
Much recent research on information retrieval has focused on how to transfer from one task (typically with abundant supervised data) to various other tasks where supervision is limited, with the impli...
arxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Search is the key to building trustworthy AI and will only be more important as we build more ambitious applications. With that in mind, there's not nearly enough energy spent improving the quality of search systems.

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February 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
After frequent road runs during a Finland visit I tend to feel the same
January 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM