A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining …

Originally, I was doing my master’s thesis on this topic. I eventually changed my focus, but these are some of the notes I wrote from when I was looking at Local SGD and DiLoCo. Local SGD and DiLoCo Overview: It is October 15th, 2025. For my last year of …

A few weeks back, I implemented GPT-2 using WebGL and shaders (Github Repo) which made the front page of Hacker News (discussion). This is a short write-up over what I learned about old-school general-purpose GPU programming over the course of this …

For a while, I wanted to build a complete autograd engine. What is an autograd engine, you might ask? To find the answer, we first must know what a neural network is. Neural Network Crash Course: A neural network can just be seen as a black-box function. …