“limiting Claude’s effectiveness for requests aimed at developing cutting-edge LLMs” And that’s how they plan to widen the gap even further
@rasbt
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MLA implemented using LoRA in Hugging Face Transformers
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I actually agree and just realize that I totally skipped autoencoders here. Small fun fact though: (in Hugging Face transformers) MLA is implemented using the LoRA tooling
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Lineage of techniques: from eigen decomposition to LatentMoE
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Always go back to basics: LatentMoE was probably inspired by MLA, which was inspired by LoRA, which was inspired by SVD, which was inspired by eigenvalue decomposition.
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Using LLM to draft implementation plans with checklists in .md
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Yes. What works well though is drafting plan documents. In my experience, having the LLM write out an implementation plan that it can then check of in a .md helps a lot
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Nemotron 3 Ultra open-weight release boasts impressive efficiency ratio
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And another open-weight release. Nemotron 3 Ultra has an ultra impressive capability:efficiency ratio! Design-wise, it carries forward the Mamba-2-attention hybrid stack and LatentMoE introduced in the previous Super variant. But everything is a bit bigger.
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Simpler approach in Unified Embedding Decoder Architecture category
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Conceptually, it fits nicely into the Unified Embedding Decoder Architecture category that I wrote about a while back: https://
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16GB VRAM Doable for Standard Hardware Except Long Context Tasks
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Maybe for very long context agent tasks, but otherwise, 16GB VRAM is pretty doable on standard hardware
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Gemma 4 12B released, runs comfortably on 16GB VRAM for LFM newcomers
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They should all run comfortably (if you have ~16 GB VRAM). I am quite new to LFM's, and Gemma 4 12B just came out today, so time will tell…
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Four additions to open-weight local LLM on consumer hardware
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It's been a while! 4 nice additions to the open-weight local-LLM-on-consumer-hardware ecosystem:
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MiniMax M2 Technical Report: Attention Mechanism Analysis
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The MiniMax M2 series was one of the most widely used open-weight LLM series earlier this year. Now, we got a technical report with some interesting tidbits. I summarized some of them below: 1. Full attention as an anti-trend?: They tried hybrid sliding-window attention