Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)
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Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka) research 27d ago
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs
How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes
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Using Local Coding Agents
Using Open-Weight Models in Local Coding Harnesses as an Alternative to Claude Code and Codex Subscriptions
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LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year
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Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
From Gemma 4 to DeepSeek V4, How New Open-Weight LLMs Are Reducing Long-Context Costs
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My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases
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Components of A Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
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A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures
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A Dream of Spring for Open-Weight LLMs: 10 Architectures from Jan-Feb 2026
A Round Up And Comparison of 10 Open-Weight LLM Releases in Spring 2026
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Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning
And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers
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The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions
A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.
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LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)
In June, I shared a bonus article with my curated and bookmarked research paper lists to the paid subscribers who make this Substack possible.
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From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates
Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved
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Beyond Standard LLMs
Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers
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Understanding the 4 Main Approaches to LLM Evaluation (From Scratch)
Multiple-Choice Benchmarks, Verifiers, Leaderboards, and LLM Judges with Code Examples
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Understanding and Implementing Qwen3 From Scratch
A Detailed Look at One of the Leading Open-Source LLMs
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From GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3
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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
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LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (January to June)
A topic-organized collection of 200+ LLM research papers from 2025
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Understanding and Coding the KV Cache in LLMs from Scratch
KV caches are one of the most critical techniques for efficient inference in LLMs in production.
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The State of Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Understanding GRPO and New Insights from Reasoning Model Papers
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First Look at Reasoning From Scratch: Chapter 1
Welcome to the next stage of large language models (LLMs): reasoning. LLMs have transformed how we process and generate text, but their success has been largely driven by statistical pattern recognition. However, new advances in reasoning methodologies now enable LLMs to tackle…
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The State of LLM Reasoning Model Inference
Inference-Time Compute Scaling Methods to Improve Reasoning Models
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Methods and Strategies for Building and Refining Reasoning Models
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