recipes

Definition

A reproducible bundle of choices: data mixture, hyperparameters, schedule, post-processing. Calling something a recipe signals practical rather than theoretical contribution — here is what actually worked, in enough detail to repeat. It matters because identical architectures trained with different recipes can differ enormously, which is why fair comparisons hold the recipe fixed and why published recipes are valuable even without new ideas.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: LLaDA-Image — Building the Visual Prior from Images Alone, Then Distilling to 2–4 StepsLLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes
• Paper Deep-Dive: The 'Physics' of Multimodal Pretraining — Which Way Does Knowledge Actually Flow?Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes