Shopify Shows Small Models Beating Frontier Models via Continuous Learning Loop

At PyTorchCon 2026, Shopify Staff ML engineer Cody Mazza-Anthony demonstrated a PyTorch and vLLM based continuous learning loop where a small model with a judge-critic mechanism outperforms frontier models.

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