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Comparing Continued Pretraining to RAG (accuracy and performance)

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Mostly as a fun experiment I wanted to do a quick comparison of performance and accuracy between a CPT trained QWEN 3.5 4B model and a RAG implementation against the base model. The point of this exercise is mostly to measure the performance benefit of internalizing the knowledge vs doing reasoning…

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  1. 2026-09-11 20:48 · r/artificial
    Comparing Continued Pretraining to RAG (accuracy and performance)
  2. 2026-09-11 20:41 · r/OpenAI
    Comparing Continued Pretraining to RAG (accuracy and performance)
  3. 2026-09-11 19:53 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Comparing Continued Pretraining to RAG (accuracy and performance)

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