Syngenta fine-tuned a small local model (Qwen2.5-7B, QLoRA) for hERG assay curation from ChEMBL.
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New post: fine-tuning a small local model (Qwen2.5-7B, QLoRA) for hERG assay curation from ChEMBL. The interesting part isn't the accuracy gain, it's the failure. 7 out…
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Syngenta
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- Farming
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- Basel, CH
- Company size
- 10,001+ employees
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Syngenta AG is part of Syngenta Group, a global agricultural technology company, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, with over 50,000 employees in more than 90 countries. We create best-in-class solutions to local and global agricultural challenges by accelerating innovation through R&D and AI. Syngenta Group is the world’s largest agricultural technology company by revenue, ranked number one in crop protection, number one in biologicals and number three in seeds. With one of the industry's largest innovation pipelines, we don't just develop breakthrough solutions — we deliver them.
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