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Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA): The KV-Cache Compression Behind DeepSeek-V3

How DeepSeek's Multi-head Latent Attention compresses the KV cache via low-rank projections + decoupled RoPE, achieving large memory reductions versus MHA at equal or better quality.

· 2 minutes reading time

LLM Pre-Training in 2026: The Frontier in Numbers

The state of frontier LLM pre-training in 2026 — token counts, parameter counts, cluster sizes, costs, and what it all means for CTOs and ML leads.

· 3 minutes reading time

Quality Filtering for LLM Pre-Training: FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, Nemotron-CC, Ultra-FineWeb

How frontier labs filter trillions of web tokens — heuristic, perplexity-based, and classifier-based filtering, with concrete recipes from FineWeb-Edu and DCLM.

· 2 minutes reading time