Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8quater] - Two angles on the cascade, cost and a validation loop, backed by a real sweep of twenty local models against a hosted flagship The post Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: An LLM Cascade from a Cheap Local Model Up to a Hosted Flagship appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Kezhan Shi
arXiv:2606. 08051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial transaction processing requires extracting structured merchant information from noisy, abbreviated bank transaction strings at scale.
By Donghao Huang, Tomas Drietomsky, Benjamin Barrett, Zhaoxia Wang
Most RAG systems are optimized for answer quality, not cost—and that blind spot gets expensive fast. In this article, I break down a production-ready cost control layer combining semantic caching, query routing, token budgeting, and circuit breaking, achieving an 85% reduction in LLM costs without sacrificing answer quality.
By Emmimal P Alexander
The true bottleneck was never the analysis. The post BI Is Dead, Long Live BI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Mahdi Karabiben
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #13bis] - The four bricks return useful results most of the time.
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post A Production RAG Pipeline in Action: Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #7B] - Retrieval is filtering on structured tables: keywords first, TOC second, embeddings last The post Finding the right anchors for RAG: keyword, embedding, and TOC signals in parallel appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8bis] - Two regimes for sending retrieved candidates to the generation brick, the sufficiency signal that picks between them, and the per-question type dispatch that makes it cheap The post Loop Engineering for RAG Generation: Iterate top-k One at a Time appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By Kezhan Shi
arXiv:2608. 12348v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Streaming systems increasingly hand work to large language models (LLMs) -- writing pipelines, triaging alerts, reading logs -- and all of it assumes the model knows how event-time stream processing behaves.
By Zhuoxi Wang
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #6c] - The decisions the parser makes on top of the user string, using the document’s profile: dispatch, activations, full schema, three approaches to deciding what fires, the audit _meta block, and a broker-corpus walkthrough The post Dispatching the Parsed RAG Question: Chunk Strategy, Model Tier, Activations, Audit appeared first on Towards Data Science .
By angela shi
arXiv:2606. 30634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large-scale LLM pretraining benefits from utilizing Pipeline Parallelism; however, synchronous implementations leave GPUs idle during pipeline bubbles, wasting computational resources.
By Philip Zmushko, Egor Petrov, Nursultan Abdullaev, Mikhail Khrushchev, Samuel Horv\'ath
Modern large-scale LLM pretraining benefits from utilizing Pipeline Parallelism; however, synchronous implementations leave GPUs idle during pipeline bubbles, wasting computational resources. Asynchronous Pipeline Parallelism eliminates these bubbles, maximizing throughput at the cost of gradient staleness.