http://programmer.ie/tags/model-selection/ Recent content in Model Selection on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:11:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/models-from-first-principles-08/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:11:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/models-from-first-principles-08/ <h1 id="which-model-should-you-use-mrq-ebt-sicql-hrm-tiny-and-pacs-compared">Which Model Should You Use? MR.Q, EBT, SICQL, HRM, Tiny and PACS Compared</h1> <p>This is the final post in <strong>Models From First Principles</strong>.</p> <p>The earlier posts asked a sequence of architectural questions:</p> <ul> <li>how do we score a context-response pair?</li> <li>when is one scalar no longer enough?</li> <li>when should Q, V and policy become explicit components?</li> <li>when is one forward pass insufficient?</li> <li>when does recurrence help?</li> <li>when does hierarchy help?</li> <li>when is a smaller recursive model a better trade-off?</li> <li>when should attention or a sparse autoencoder be added?</li> <li>when should we change the optimizer rather than the model?</li> </ul> <p>This post asks the question that matters when building a real system:</p>