If you peel away all the complexity of modern large language models (LLMs)—billions of parameters, reinforcement learning from human feedback, retrieval-augmented generation—the essence of how they work comes down to…
The term Transformer has become almost synonymous with modern large language models (LLMs). But when people talk about “encoder-only,” “decoder-only,” or “encoder–decoder” architectures, they are drawing on terminology that predates…
If you’ve loaded an AWQ-quantized model from Hugging Face (like Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-AWQ), you might have noticed something confusing: 👉 Hugging Face says the model has ~0.9B parameters, but the architecture is…
Matrix multiplication is one of the most fundamental operations in machine learning. In PyTorch, you’ll often see three different ways to do it: At first glance, they look interchangeable —…
Large language models are huge — billions of parameters, often stored as massive square weight matrices like 4096 × 4096. Fine-tuning all of those parameters for a new task is…
Training today’s deep learning models is resource-hungry. Models have billions of parameters, and every step requires trillions of floating-point operations. To make training feasible, researchers and engineers rely on mixed…
Modern deep learning wouldn’t be possible without floating-point numbers. They’re the backbone of every matrix multiplication, activation, and gradient update. But as models grow larger and GPUs become more specialized,…
If you’ve ever written code in Python, CUDA, or TensorFlow, you’ve probably seen terms like float16, float32, or float64. They map directly to the IEEE-754 floating-point standard: But what do…
Natural language generation has rapidly evolved with the rise of large language models, but one common point of confusion is distinguishing between causal language models (CLMs) and conditional generation models.…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized how we interact with technology, from chatbots that answer questions to AI models that generate lifelike images and translate languages instantly. But behind many of…
NVIDIA DGX (Deep GPU Xceleration) is synonymous with cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. Designed to accelerate AI research and applications, the DGX family of systems provides unparalleled computational power for…
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that converts images of text (such as scanned documents, photos, or screenshots) into machine-readable text. While OCR has come a long way, evaluating…
When evaluating machine learning models, accuracy is one of the most commonly used metrics for classification tasks. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the accuracy_score function provided by Scikit-Learn’s…
In the world of machine learning, pretrained models are like finding a treasure chest of knowledge. They save us hours, days, or even weeks of training time, allowing us to…
When training or deploying deep learning models, precision isn’t just about getting accurate predictions—it’s also about finding the right balance between performance, memory usage, and speed. Choosing the optimal precision…
Dr. Anjing Wang