Transformers

SmolLM3: A Powerful 3B Multilingual Model with Long-Context Reasoning

Editor2 weeks ago2 weeks ago04 mins

Introducing SmolLM3: Small, Efficient, and Highly Capable The AI community continues to push the boundaries of small language models (SLMs), proving that bigger isn’t always better. Today, we’re excited to introduce SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter model that outperforms competitors like Llama-3.2-3B and Qwen2.5-3B while rivaling larger 4B models (Qwen3 & Gemma3). What makes SmolLM3 special? ✅ Multilingual (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) ✅ 128K long-context support (via NoPE +…

Inner Workings of ChatGPT-4 AI Attention Blocks, Feedforward Networks, and More

Editor1 month ago1 month ago05 mins

At its core, ChatGPT-4 is built on the Transformer architecture, which revolutionized AI with its self-attention mechanism. Below, we break down the key components and their roles in generating human-like text. 1. Transformer Architecture Overview The Transformer consists of encoder and decoder stacks, but GPT-4 is decoder-only (it generates text autoregressively). Key Layers in Each Block:…

Understanding Transformers: The Mathematical Foundations of Large Language Models

Editor3 months ago3 months ago010 mins

In recent years, two major breakthroughs have revolutionized the field of Large Language Models (LLMs): 1. 2017: The publication of Google’s seminal paper, (https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762) by Vaswani et al., which introduced the Transformer architecture – a neural network that fundamentally changed Natural Language Processing (NLP). 2. 2022: The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI, a transformer-based chatbot…

How to Crack Machine learning Interviews at FAANG!

Editor4 months ago4 months ago0337 mins

As a candidate, I’ve interviewed at a dozen big companies and startups. I’ve got offers for machine learning roles at companies including Google, NVIDIA, Snap, Netflix, Primer AI, and Snorkel AI. I’ve also been rejected at many other companies. As an interviewer, I’ve been involved in designing and executing the hiring process at NVIDIA and…

Let’s break down AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Neural Networks in a structured way

Editor3 years ago6 days ago014 mins

Let’s break down AI, Machine Learning (ML), and Neural Networks in a structured way, covering key concepts, types of ML, and model architectures like Transformers, and their applications.