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The team at Oxen.ai is dedicated to helping AI practictioners go from research to production. To help enable this, we host a research paper club on Fridays called ArXiv Dives, where we go over state of the art research and how you can apply it to your own work.

Take a look at our Arxiv Dives, Practical ML Dives as well as a treasure trove of content on how to go from raw datasets to production ready AI/ML systems. We cover everything from prompt engineering, fine-tuning, computer vision, natural language understanding, generative ai, data engineering, to best practices when versioning your data. So, dive in and explore – we're excited to share our journey and learnings with you 🚀

How to Train a LTX-2 Character LoRA with Oxen.ai
How to Train a LTX-2 Character LoRA with Oxen.ai

LTX-2 is a video generation model, that not only can generation video frames, but audio as well. This model is fully open source, meaning the weights and the code are available for...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
1/28/2026
11 min read
How to Use WAN 2.1-VACE to Generate Hollywood-Level Video Edits
How to Use WAN 2.1-VACE to Generate Hollywood-Level Video Edits

Imagine you are shooting a film and you realize that you have the actor wearing the wrong jacket in a scene. Do you bring the whole cast back in to re-shoot? Depending on the actor...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
11/6/2025
9 min read
How We Cut Inference Costs from $46K to $6.5K Fine-Tuning Qwen-Image-Edit
How We Cut Inference Costs from $46K to $6.5K Fine-Tuning Qwen-Image-Edit

At Oxen.ai, we think a lot about what it takes to run high-quality inference at scale. It’s one thing to produce a handful of impressive results with a cutting-edge image editing m...

Eloy Martinez
Eloy Martinez
10/26/2025
13 min read
How to Set Noise Timesteps When Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models for Image Generation
How to Set Noise Timesteps When Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models for Image Generation

Fine-tuning Diffusion Models such as Stable Diffusion, FLUX.1-dev, or Qwen-Image can give you a lot of bang for your buck. Base models may not be trained on a certain concept or st...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
10/10/2025
- Practical ML
6 min read
Fine-Tuned Qwen-Image-Edit vs Nano-Banana and FLUX Kontext Dev
Fine-Tuned Qwen-Image-Edit vs Nano-Banana and FLUX Kontext Dev

Welcome back to Fine-Tuning Friday, where each week we try to put some models to the test and see if fine-tuning an open-source model can outperform whatever state of the art (SOTA...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
9/27/2025
12 min read
We Fine-Tuned GPT OSS 20B to Rap Like Eminem
We Fine-Tuned GPT OSS 20B to Rap Like Eminem

OpenAI came out with GPT-OSS 120B and 20B in August 2025. The first “Open” LLMs from OpenAI since GPT-2, over six years ago. The idea of fine-tuning a frontier OpenAI model was exc...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
9/3/2025
14 min read
How We're Building a “Tab Tab” Code Completion Model
How We're Building a “Tab Tab” Code Completion Model

Welcome to Fine-Tuning Fridays, where we share our learnings from fine-tuning open source models for real world tasks. We’ll walk you through what models work, what models don’t an...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
7/29/2025
8 min read
How to Fine-Tune a FLUX.1-dev LoRA with Code, Step by Step
How to Fine-Tune a FLUX.1-dev LoRA with Code, Step by Step

FLUX.1-dev is one of the most popular open-weight models available today. Developed by Black Forest Labs, it has 12 billion parameters. The goal of this post is to provide a barebo...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
6/28/2025
- Fine-Tune Fridays
20 min read
How to Fine-Tune PixArt to Generate a Consistent Character
How to Fine-Tune PixArt to Generate a Consistent Character

Can we fine-tune a small diffusion transformer (DiT) to generate OpenAI-level images by distilling off of OpenAI images? The end goal is to have a small, fast, cheap model that we ...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
6/19/2025
- Fine-Tune Fridays
21 min read
How to Fine-Tune Qwen3 on Text2SQL to GPT-4o level performance
How to Fine-Tune Qwen3 on Text2SQL to GPT-4o level performance

Welcome to a new series from the Oxen.ai Herd called Fine-Tuning Fridays! Each week we will take an open source model and put it head to head against a closed source foundation mod...

Greg Schoeninger
Greg Schoeninger
5/28/2025
- Fine-Tune Fridays
15 min read