LLM architectures are becoming increasingly complex, incorporating various attention variants, mixture-of-experts, and integrated vision/audio encoders. This mirrors the complexity growth seen in recommendation systems, highlighting the need to balance performance optimization with research iteration.
LLM architectures are becoming increasingly complex. While early Llama models were clean Transformer stacks, modern models incorporate various attention variants (query grouping, compressed, sparse, linear, sliding-window), mixture-of-experts, integrated vision/audio encoders, and communication ops for multi-GPU inference, significantly increasing complexity.
This complexity growth mirrors the evolution of recommendation systems, which started with a simple two-tower structure but grew complex due to the tension between continuous capability improvement and efficiency. LLMs are following a similar path, where exploring new variants requires optimized kernels, but manual optimization is time-consuming.
While agents might automatically generate kernels, a verifiable baseline is needed. Approaches like PyTorch's FlexAttention, designed for composability and verifiability from the start, are crucial. Andrej Karpathy's move to Anthropic to develop auto-research loops reflects the need to cut architectures to their essence and make them composable.
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