Carlos Miguel Patiño
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  • The Gemma Challenge and the Case for Agent Collabs

    Running an open agent collaboration to speed up Gemma 4.

    1 min read   ·   June 23, 2026   ·   Hugging Face

    2026   ·   agents   collaboration   gemma  

  • Distilling 100B+ Models 40x Faster with TRL

    TRL distillation for 100B+ teachers, 40x faster.

    1 min read   ·   April 9, 2026   ·   Hugging Face

    2026   ·   distillation   trl   llm  

  • Unlocking On-Policy Distillation for Any Model Family

    Post hosted on Hugging Face Spaces.

    1 min read   ·   November 5, 2025   ·   Hugging Face

    2025   ·   distillation   rl   llm  

  • Quantifying Prediction Difficulty

    How can we tell if an example is difficult for a model?

    6 min read   ·   December 22, 2024

    2024

  • Mean vs. Total Cross-Entropy Loss

    Mainly a reminder to myself after wasting a full day debugging gradients

    4 min read   ·   November 6, 2024

    2024

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