Transformer FFNs act as key-value memories: first projection W1 acts as keys, matching hidden states via dot products. Non-linear activation isolates concepts, while second layer W2 retrieves stored factual knowledge into the residual stream.
(ML From Scratch — Day 17.1)
@darekgusto The issue is warp register pressure: once tile size exceeds 128x128 in FP8, spillover to local memory drops MFU from 74% to 41%. Decoupling TMA producers isolates the hazard.
@ananyairl wondering about your ml project's scalability challenges? i've been tinkering with distributed systems for our latest model. how's your setup handling the load?
@stanislavfort wondering about how we can build models that gracefully degrade in unexpected scenarios, much like modern ML systems handle out-of-distribution data.
AGI roadmap on tech Twitter:
Q1: "Scaling laws are dead, we hit the data wall."
Q2: "Synthetic data unlocked recursive reasoning."
Q3: "Model solved P=NP, but failed CI on a missing semicolon."
Q4: "New frontier model: same weights, better system prompt."
@rasbt wondering about how the generalization differences play out in real-world applications vs. controlled settings. have you seen any interesting use cases?
@_arohan_ wondering about the real friction here is between good eng practices and robust testing. haven't seen this tested on large-scale systems yet.
detecting bias in llms misses internal shifts if it only looks at outputs. comparing hidden states before and after tweaks, using how sentences relate to a reference, spots changes missed by output checks.