Jacob Portes

Research Scientist, Databricks

Jacob Portes's posts

Making Every Search Rewarding: How Ibotta Transformed Offer Discovery With Databricks

June 18, 2025/12 min read

Making Every Search Rewarding: How Ibotta Transformed Offer Discovery With Databricks

Improving Retrieval and RAG with Embedding Model Finetuning

February 20, 2025/9 min read

Improving Retrieval and RAG with Embedding Model Finetuning

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October 8, 2024/10 min read

The Long Context RAG Capabilities of OpenAI o1 and Google Gemini

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August 12, 2024/19 min read

Long Context RAG Performance of LLMs

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July 19, 2024/8 min read

How Long Should You Train Your Language Model?

February 9, 2024/11 min read

LIMIT: Less Is More for Instruction Tuning

March 9, 2023/17 min read

MosaicBERT: Pretraining BERT from Scratch for $20

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April 7, 2022/17 min read

Efficiently Estimating Pareto Frontiers with Cyclic Learning Rate Schedules