Maxime Rivest asks: does turning a backbone into a product model require any training at all?
MaximeRivest · x · 2026-10-10
MaximeRivest follows up asking what work is needed to take a backbone and give it the right latency and quality — whether weights change or any training is involved. The question prompts antoinechaffin's reply that you don't even need synthetic data since backbones are already very strong.
Related event: Cresta Researcher: Strong Backbone Models Need No Synthetic Data Yet(4 posts)→
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