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Frontier Development research deskSection 06 · Page 16 of 17Last updated 26 October 2026
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  1. QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs — Dettmers et al., 23 May 2023 →arxiv.org
  2. A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products — Hamel Husain →hamel.dev
  3. Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Latent Space, 22 October 2026 →latent.space
  4. SB26-189 Automated Decision-Making Technology — Colorado General Assembly →leg.colorado.gov
  5. Demystifying evals for AI agents — Anthropic, 9 January 2026 →www.anthropic.com
  6. LoRA Learns Less and Forgets Less — Biderman et al., revision 20 September 2024 →arxiv.org
  7. The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely and Ali Taha, Latent Space, 3 August 2026 →latent.space
  8. GroupKFold — scikit-learn documentation →scikit-learn.org
  9. RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data — Ong et al., revision 23 February 2025 →arxiv.org
  10. Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement — Meta →github.com