Model notes · Chapter 01
Position encoding: how Transformers keep track of order
From sine waves to RoPE: where position enters a Transformer, and what “longer context” really requires.
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An engineering view of Transformer building blocks, with equations and checked PyTorch examples. Three chapters, available in English, 中文 and 日本語.
Model notes · Chapter 01
From sine waves to RoPE: where position enters a Transformer, and what “longer context” really requires.
Model notes · Chapter 02
Understand Q/K/V, self- versus cross-attention, and the memory trade-offs behind MHA, MQA, GQA and MLA.
Model notes · Chapter 03
Understand x + F(x), the gradient shortcut, and why adding more layers still requires care.
LREC · 2026
JaSocial asks whether a model can adapt its language to the relationship between sender and recipient.
JACIII 30(4) · 2026
A comparison of two kinds of language features—and what encoding and decoding actually mean here.
arXiv · 2026 · Preprint
A two-stage approach to generating descriptions from brain activity, with a frozen language model.