Don't classify. Hallucinate!
Let LLMs freely hallucinate tags, then map them to your real vocabulary via vector similarity, solving traditional classification's generalization limits.
Simon Willison · Aug 15, 2026
Let LLMs freely hallucinate tags, then map them to your real vocabulary via vector similarity, solving traditional classification's generalization limits.
Hugging Face releases a new tutorial demonstrating how fine-tuning multimodal embedding models can yield performance far surpassing general-purpose large models in specific domains (like visual document retrieval), even outperforming models with 4x its parameters.