The Transformer Architecture: A Comprehensive Technical Analysis

1.0 The Paradigm Shift: From Recurrence to Parallel Self-Attention Prior to 2017, the field of sequence modeling and transduction was dominated by complex recurrent neural networks (RNNs), specifically Long Short-Term Read More …

Accelerating Transformer Inference: A Deep Dive into the Architecture and Performance of FlashAttention

The Tyranny of Quadratic Complexity: Deconstructing the Transformer Inference Bottleneck The Transformer architecture has become the de facto standard for state-of-the-art models across numerous domains, from natural language processing to Read More …

Architectures of Efficiency: A Comprehensive Analysis of KV Cache Optimization for Large Language Model Inference

The Foundation: The KV Cache as a Double-Edged Sword The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) based on the Transformer architecture has catalyzed a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence. Central Read More …