Sliding Window Attention
Learn how Sliding Window Attention enables efficient processing of long sequences by limiting attention to local context windows, used in Mistral and Longformer.
Clear explanations of core machine learning concepts, from foundational ideas to advanced techniques. Understand attention mechanisms, transformers, skip connections, and more.
Learn how Sliding Window Attention enables efficient processing of long sequences by limiting attention to local context windows, used in Mistral and Longformer.
Explore sparse attention mechanisms that reduce quadratic complexity to linear or sub-quadratic, enabling efficient processing of long sequences.
Master He (Kaiming) initialization, the optimal weight initialization technique for ReLU networks that prevents gradient vanishing in deep neural architectures.
Understand Xavier (Glorot) initialization, the weight initialization technique that maintains signal variance across layers for stable deep network training.
Understand Mean Squared Error (MSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the fundamental loss functions for regression tasks with different sensitivity to outliers.
Master Structure of Arrays (SoA) vs Array of Structures (AoS) data layouts for optimal cache efficiency, SIMD vectorization, and GPU memory coalescing with interactive visualizations.