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A working reference on CUDA kernel fusion: epilogue fusion with cuBLASLt and CUTLASS, hand-written WMMA epilogues, online softmax and FlashAttention, and where fusion stops paying.
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One scalar decay becomes a diagonal matrix, so every channel of the state gets its own memory horizon. Plus the hybrid: three KDA layers to one full-attention layer, and why the ratio is not arbitrary.
Twenty-three macrocycles, Multi-head Latent Attention, 898 experts in a compressed latent space, an activation function that made inference 3x slower, and AttnRes — attention run along the depth axis instead of the token axis.
Gated DeltaNet composes Mamba-2's uniform decay with the delta rule's targeted overwrite. Two verbs a fixed memory needs — release and replace — and why neither is expressible in the other.
The WY reparameterisation turns every in-chunk delta correction into one triangular solve, capping sequential depth at C instead of L — and reveals that attention and recurrence are one computation at two settings of the chunk-size dial.
Applying the feature map to q and k separately makes attention re-associate into a fixed d×d state: constant memory and constant decode time. The price is a capacity ceiling of d clean associations, with readback SNR decaying as √(d/N).
The decoder-only baseline, what softmax attention actually computes, and why the KV cache turns cubic decoding into quadratic decoding while making memory bandwidth the bottleneck.
DeltaNet's update is a generalized Householder transform that erases exactly one key's slot and leaves every orthogonal direction untouched — and is identical to one SGD step per token on a self-posed regression problem.
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Every mechanism in the series in one table, and the claim they support: a fixed-capacity associative memory needs an eviction policy, and attention is the best selective read we have — along the token axis, the depth axis and the parameter axis alike.
Eight chapters tracing language model architecture from GPT-2 to Kimi K3, told as one question: what does the model keep, and what does it discard to make room? With full derivations, cost models and original diagrams.
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A technical walkthrough: why transformers parallelize over sequence positions, how sparse and dense features enter attention in recommendation models, and how Meta's HSTU / Generative Recommenders architecture handles retrieval and ranking. With worked numeric examples.