Knowledge Distillation: Transferring Intelligence from Large to Small Models

Introduction: Knowledge distillation transfers the capabilities of large, expensive models into smaller, faster ones that can run efficiently in production. Instead of training a small model from scratch, distillation leverages the “dark knowledge” encoded in a teacher model’s soft probability distributions—information that hard labels alone cannot capture. This guide covers the techniques that make distillation […]

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 – hotfix build – 14.0.25422.1 (KB3165756)

Microsoft has released a hot-fix for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, to fix certain critical issues identified after the release of Update 3. Supported Version Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 File name VS14-KB3165756.exe Date published 07/12/2016 File size 2.4 MB This update applied to: Visual Studio Professional 2015 Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Visual Studio Community […]

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Static vs Singleton Classes

Recently while I was attending an interview I came across a question Static vs Singleton. Though I know the differences I couldn’t answer it properly, as I was not refreshed my programming knowledge before the interview. I would like to quote a reference to Jalpesh’s blog article (www.dotnetjalps.com) explaining the difference: Difference between Static and […]

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Conversation State Management: Building Context-Aware AI Assistants

Introduction: Conversation state management is the foundation of building coherent, context-aware AI assistants. Without proper state management, every message is processed in isolation—the assistant forgets what was discussed moments ago, loses track of user preferences, and fails to maintain the thread of complex multi-turn conversations. Effective state management involves storing conversation history, extracting and persisting […]

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Query Understanding and Intent Detection: Building Smarter AI Interfaces

Introduction: Query understanding is the critical first step in building intelligent AI systems that respond appropriately to user requests. Before your system can retrieve relevant documents, call the right tools, or generate helpful responses, it needs to understand what the user actually wants. This involves intent classification (is this a question, command, or conversation?), entity […]

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