HF researcher: generation is efficient for pre-training but not ideal for all downstream tasks
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-16
Hugging Face researcher antoinechaffin notes that the community is once again realizing that while any task can be cast as a generative one, generation is not the best paradigm for everything. Generation is very efficient for pre-training, he argues, but surely imperfect for downstream applications.
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