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  • Flash Attention Notes Sep 21, 2026 #papers#llm#gpu

    A first-principles walkthrough of tiled attention, online softmax, and GPU memory movement.

  • Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback Notes Sep 21, 2026 #papers#llm#alignment

    A review of the InstructGPT paper covering supervised fine-tuning, reward modeling, and PPO with human feedback.

  • Mistral 7B & Mixture of experts(8x7B) Notes Sep 10, 2026 #papers#llm

    Sliding window attention, rolling buffer cache, model sharding, and mixture of experts from dense to sparse.

  • BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers Notes Aug 28, 2026 #papers#llm

    Review of the 2019 BERT paper, covering masked language modeling, next sentence prediction, and the encoder-only stack.

  • Attention is All You need Notes Aug 25, 2026 #papers#llm

    Review and implementation of the 2017 transformers paper.

  • LongNet: Scaling Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens Notes Aug 25, 2026 #papers#llm

    Review of the 2023 LongNet paper and its dilated attention.

  • LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models Notes Aug 25, 2026 #papers#llm

    Review and implementation of the 2021 LoRA paper.

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