Outlines is an open-source library that introduces deterministic certainty into LLMs' output generation process for better, more reliable generation of structured outputs.

Two short clips. One question: how alike do they look? Sounds trivial, it isn’t, and I learned that the slow way.  My setup: one reference clip, eight others to rank against it, all waterfalls (more on why in a second). I figured this was an afternoon job, grab a model, compute a number, move on. The post How to Measure Video Similarity: 6 Techniques I Tested (and the One I Shipped)  appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Most real-world classification problems are imbalanced. Fraud, disease, churn, and defects are rare by nature. Standard classifiers chase accuracy, so they quietly ignore the very class you care about. For years, SMOTE was the reflex fix that everyone reached for first. But SMOTE often fails on the messy, high-dimensional data that production systems actually see. The post Handling Imbalanced Classification: What Works Better Than SMOTE appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

LLMs are getting stronger every day, and building a RAG pipeline has never been easier. Knowing whether it actually works is not. Most teams ship a RAG system, see decent-looking answers, and call it done, until users hit hallucination, missing context, or irrelevant chunks. That’s where evaluation frameworks come in. RAGAS, TruLens, and DeepEval are The post RAG Evaluation Frameworks Compared: RAGAS vs TruLens vs DeepEval appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

You don't need a PhD to understand fine-tuning. This article explains how pretrained models learn new skills through fine-tuning.

SmolVLM2-2.2B sits at a genuinely useful point on the capability-size trade-off curve; small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, capable enough to produce video summaries that are actually useful for real workflows.

For twelve days, the best AI models on the planet existed and almost nobody could touch them. That ends now! GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna go public today! The models are accessible by all users (no subscription required) This is the full breakdown of what’s on offer: three models, four prices, one precedent, and a The post GPT-5.6 Is Here: Sol, Terra, and Luna appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.