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Topics that took more than one article, meant to be read in order. The Transformer Internals foundations are a series too.

  1. 5 parts ~138 min

    Policy Optimization for LLMs: From Fundamentals to Production

    From RL foundations and PPO through GRPO and GDPO to a map of the GRPO variants: policy optimization for aligning language models.

  2. 5 parts ~113 min

    Adaptive Optimization at Scale: Contextual Bandits from Theory to Production

    From the decision of whether to use a bandit, through regret theory and four algorithm implementations, to offline evaluation and deployment.