Gunjan Dhanuka — Learning Notes
Search
Search
Dark mode
Light mode
Reader mode
Explorer
Home
❯
learn
❯
attention
attention
10 items under this folder.
Sep 11, 2026
Learn: SOTA Attention Synthesis (Sept 2026)
attention
sota
synthesis
frontier
rope
gqa
mla
flashattention
nsa
sparse-attention
ssm
hybrids
multimodal
capstone
transformers
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Scaled Dot-Product Attention
attention
transformers
sdpa
softmax
foundations
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Multi-Head Attention & the Transformer Block
attention
multi-head-attention
transformer-block
pre-ln
post-ln
layernorm
ffn
gelu
flops
scaling-laws
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Positional Information (Sinusoidal → RoPE → ALiBi)
attention
positional-encoding
sinusoidal
rope
alibi
relative-position
long-context
transformers
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: The Quadratic Bottleneck & IO-Aware Attention
attention
transformers
flashattention
online-softmax
io-aware
memory-bound
long-context
foundations
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: MQA → GQA → MLA (Shrinking the KV Cache)
attention
kv-cache
mqa
gqa
mla
deepseek
inference
long-context
transformers
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Sparse & Sliding-Window Attention
attention
transformers
sparse-attention
sliding-window
longformer
bigbird
attention-sinks
streaming
long-context
flops
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Linear & Sub-Quadratic Attention (& the SSM Turn)
attention
linear-attention
kernel-trick
performers
linformer
state-space-models
s4
mamba
ssm
subquadratic
long-context
hybrids
transformers
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: Attention in ViTs & VLMs
attention
vision-transformer
vlm
multimodal
cross-attention
flamingo
llava
q-former
Sep 10, 2026
Learn: The Long-Context Race
attention
long-context
rope
position-interpolation
yarn
ntk-aware
ring-attention
kv-cache
evaluation
ruler
transformers