1. INTRODUCTION

2. DESI DATA AND CLASSIFICATION PROCEDURE
2.1. DESI Spectra
2.2. Current DESI Redshift Fitter

3. METHOD
3.1. Modeling Galaxy Spectra
3.2. Priors on polynomial coefficients
3.3. Synthetic Galaxy Spectra
3.4. Galaxy Archetypes
3.5. Code Implementation

4. TESTS AND PERFORMANCE
4.1. Archetype fitting of DESI spectra
4.2. Survey Validation Repeat Observations
4.3. Survey Validation Visually Inspected Deep Tiles
4.4. Large Test Runs on the Y1 dataset
4.5. Further Algorithmic Tests

5. DISCUSSION
5.1. Improved Galaxy Modeling and Redshift Estimation with archetypes
5.2. Future Improvements and Extensions

6. SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS