Siva Gurumurthy(@sgurumur):Review Table is a fascinating fan-out problem: M documents and N columns. Naively, each table can require O(MN) model calls. We wanted to fix that. For our first foray into specialized model training, we worked with Applied Compute to build a model that beat frontier models on answer and citation quality while cutting cost per cell by 55%. Agentic retrieval also used 50% fewer input tokens at the same quality.

2026.08.14 17:44

Review Table is a fascinating fan-out problem: M documents and N columns. Naively, each table can require O(MN) model calls. We wanted to fix that. For our first foray into specialized model training, we worked with Applied Compute to build a model that beat frontier models on answer and citation quality while cutting cost per cell by 55%. Agentic retrieval also used 50% fewer input tokens at the same quality.