
Early land animals skipped the tadpole phase
Current amphibian development may not have been typical of early land vertebrates.
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DPO
Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is a model alignment technique that bypasses the complex reward-model training phase of RLHF. DPO optimizes the policy directly on preference datasets (chosen vs. rejected responses) using a simple binary cross-entropy loss.
Agentic AI
Agentic AI refers to artificial intelligence systems designed to act autonomously, make decisions, plan workflows, and execute tasks without constant human intervention. Unlike traditional models that only respond to queries, agentic systems use an agentic loop to perceive environments, reason over goals, use tools, and iterate to achieve outcomes.
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