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Life & fun · June 28, 2022

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Quaterion – x100 faster fine-tuning of similarity learning models

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Quaterion is a software tool for fine-tuning similarity learning models at significantly faster speeds than standard methods. It is designed for developers and machine learning practitioners who need to train models that measure similarity between data points. The tool launched in 2022 and is available on GitHub as an open-source project.

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