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Quentin Anthony: belief

16 Aug 2023 Latent Space The Mathematics of Training LLMs — with Quentin Anthony of Eleuther AI

“I would say flash attention. Guys, just talk to Tree. And flash attention is just sort of a really great set of kernels that I thought would take a while to get to us.”

— Quentin Anthony

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Quentin Anthony
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Aug 2023
Publisher
Latent Space

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…That's a good brain dump. Cool. Yeah, I have so many more questions on the multimodal stuff, but that should be for another time. Acceleration, what has already happened in AI that you thought would take much longer? I would say flash attention. Guys, just talk to Tree. And flash attention is just sort of a really great set of kernels that I thought would take a while to get to us. Well, Quentin, thank you very much, man. This was super informative and I think hopefully helps demystify a little bit the blog post. I think people open it and it's like a lot of math on it. And I think you walking them through it was super helpful. So thank you so much for coming on.…

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