@gordic_aleksa: new in-depth blog post time: Inside the Transformer: The Life of a Token a deep dive into a modern dense transformer, i…
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An in-depth blog post exploring the inner workings of modern dense transformers, covering topics such as YaRN for positional information, hybrid attention for long context lengths, soft capping, QK normalization, and transformer math including FLOPs/token formulas and cluster sizing.
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new in-depth blog post time: Inside the Transformer: The Life of a Token
a deep dive into a modern dense transformer, i cover YaRN (why does pairwise coordinate rotation induce positional information?), hybrid attention (getting to 160k context length), soft capping, QK normalization, etc. as the token flows through the transformer
bonus transformer math: FLOPs/token formula (and when is 6N formula broken), cluster sizing (how big of a cluster do you need given the model/data size and experiment throughput of interest), and more
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