This paper introduces Effective State-Size (ESS), a metric measuring how well sequence models utilize their memory by analyzing the rank of input-dependent transformation matrices. ESS reveals that models with high memory utilization are harder to distill, and that effective ESS modulation correlates with better performance on recall-intensive tasks.
Data seeding in .NET populates databases with initial data. EF Core 9 introduced UseSeeding and UseAsyncSeeding methods as the recommended approach, which integrate with migrations and database initialization operations while protecting against concurrency issues through migration locking.