Livio Baldini Soares
liviobs.bsky.social
Livio Baldini Soares
@liviobs.bsky.social
Research on Natural Language, LLMs, Knowledge Graphs and Retrieval. Previously, research on systems software. Currently @ Google Deepmind, NYC.
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I’m really excited about our release of Gemini 3 today, the result of hard work by many, many people in the Gemini team and all across Google! 🎊

blog.google/products/gem...

Gemini 3 performs quite well on a wide range of benchmarks.
November 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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🥁Introducing Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent model with impressive capabilities in advanced reasoning and coding.

Now integrating thinking capabilities, 2.5 Pro Experimental is our most performant Gemini model yet. It’s #1 on the LM Arena leaderboard. 🥇
March 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I'm not at #EMNLP2024 this year, but the amazing Palak Jain is presenting our work on retrieval with LLMs!

RICHES is an alternative to RAG that interleaves retrieval with text generation, all within a single LLM decoding pass!

Work with Palak Jain and Tom Kwiatkowski.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.00361
From RAG to RICHES: Retrieval Interlaced with Sequence Generation
We present RICHES, a novel approach that interleaves retrieval with sequence generation tasks. RICHES offers an alternative to conventional RAG systems by eliminating the need for separate retriever a...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Wanted to share that Varun Godbole recently released a prompting playbook. The title says prompt tuning, but this is text prompts, not soft prompts.

github.com/varungodbole...
GitHub - varungodbole/prompt-tuning-playbook: A playbook for effectively prompting post-trained LLMs
A playbook for effectively prompting post-trained LLMs - varungodbole/prompt-tuning-playbook
github.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM