IBM releases Granite Switch 4.1.1 with modular updates
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IBM released Granite Switch 4.1.1 as an update compatible with version 4.1, with no migration required. The patch updates the Granite Speech ASR model to convert speech to text in 10 languages, with native punctuation and capitalization, and includes a Decision adapter with improved overall performance on the Jev Decision Index test set, IBM says.
The company says the base model did not need to be recomputed: only the new adapters were trained, allowing updates to be composed and deployed on the same endpoint. IBM is also working on tutorials and an Adapter SDK so developers and third-party providers can create, test and ship their own adapters.
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The adapter approach may let teams update specific components without recomputing the base model, while keeping composed updates on the same endpoint, according to IBM. The Adapter SDK in development could also enable third-party providers to create and ship their own adapters.