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lappa

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About lappa

I work on inference and training of transformers models.

You can reach me at andrew@hn.rew.la

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    Comment #48415340

    ChatGPT, request minimal necessary diff to make a specific change, review, ctrl+c, ctrl+v

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    Comment #47041474

    Good post. I think you mixed torch.eye with torch.full though

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    Comment #44397894

    This isn't suggesting no one understands how these models are architected, nor is anyone saying that SDPA / matrix multiplication isn't understood by those who create these systems…

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    Comment #44119686

    I use the SingleFile extension to archive every page I visit. It's easy to set up, but be warned, it takes up a lot of disk space. $ du -h ~/archive/webpages 1.1T /home/andrew/arch…

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    Comment #42890847

    OpenAI clearly states that they train on your data https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

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    Comment #42406078

    It's easy to argue that Llama-3.3 8B performs better than GPT-3.5. Compare their benchmarks, and try the two side-by-side. Phi-4 is yet another step towards a small, open, GPT-4 le…

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    Comment #41492962

    Great project, looking forward to seeing more as this develops. Also FYI, your mail server seems to be down.

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    Comment #40230027

    Provided a constant temperature of 1.0, you can train the model on prompts with probablistic requests, with loss determined by KL divergence. Expectation: 80% left, 20% right Model…

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    Comment #39788213

    Look at it from an algorithmic perspective. In computer science many algorithms take a non-constant number of steps to execute. However, in transformers models, there are a limited…

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    Comment #39749405

    Very interested in the expansion of RL for transformers, but I can't quite tell what this project is. Could you please add links to the documentation to the readme where it states …

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    Comment #39385764

    A few days ago I saw a post using NeuralFlow to help explain the repetition problem. https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ap8mxh/what_ca... > I’ve done some investigation …

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    Comment #38548194

    Not a material science expert, however per their paper, they use DFT to verify the stability, then use the verification status to improve the model. >candidate structures filtered …

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    Comment #38548091

    Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06735-9

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    Comment #38101829

    Excellent, appears Amazon has introduced two important things here: - Rope theta of 100,000, likely from the Llama 2 Long paper which found that a large theta helped regulate atten…

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    Comment #37937336

    More data, more parameters, more compute all result in a better model per "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models" https://browse.arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361v1.pdf Largeness is a val…

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    Comment #37918812

    From the paper https://github.com/EleutherAI/math-lm https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/llemma_34b https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/llemma_7b

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    Comment #37873201

    Great work, lots of useful information here. The only thing I wish you did different was explored alpha > 2 * r. In this blog post, the author found that alpha of 4 * r (where r=64…

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    "For example, HyperAttention makes the inference time of ChatGLM2 50% faster on 32k context length while perplexity increases from 5.6 to 6.3." "when half of all attention layers a…

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    Comment #37724708

    This seems half-baked and there are numerous faulty assumptions in this article. For example, Bitcoin miners cannot computer gradients. Their ASICs can only calculate double-sha256…

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    Interesting how this method quantizes different layers / modules in a manner that minimizes perplexity as it adjusts parameters. I'd be interested to see how 2.5 bit quantization c…