@Vtrivedy10: there's a very exciting future agent recipe for building intelligence too cheap to meter, applied towards extracting si…
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The post outlines a future agent recipe for building scalable intelligence by fine-tuning efficient, specialized open models to surpass frontier performance on LLM-as-a-judge tasks, and applying this to extract signals from trace data for continual learning. LangChain Labs and FireworksAI release new work demonstrating this approach.
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there’s a very exciting future agent recipe for building intelligence too cheap to meter, applied towards extracting signals from every single Trace agents produce
it involves:
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Fine-tuning efficient, specialized open models that reach frontier performance on narrow, important tasks
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Understanding Trace data at massive scale so we can extract signals to improve every agent over long-time horizons –> Continual Learning framed as a Data Mining problem
we’re excited to release some new work from LangChain Labs with the awesome folks @FireworksAI_HQ (shoutout @chahvivi and the excellent team over there)
we find that with good data design + SFT, builders can surpass frontier performance on LLM-as-a-judge tasks that read every Trace agents produce & extract signal from them via rubrics
reach out if any of this is interesting - and if you want to fine-tune your own judges to process every trace at scale
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