Reinforcement Learning — From Intuition to Algorithms
Advanced Fundamentals 35 min
A narrative-first walkthrough of reinforcement learning, starting with everyday intuition and ending with the math behind Q-learning and DQN.
Tag: optimization
All the articles with the tag "optimization".
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vLLM and the Trilogy of Modern LLM Scaling
Advanced MLOps & Production 30 minHow PagedAttention, Continuous Batching, Speculative Decoding, and Quantization unlock lightning-fast, reliable large language model serving.
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XGBoost — The Art of Boosting Trees with Second-Order Gradients
Advanced Fundamentals 25 minA deep dive into XGBoost — how second-order Taylor approximations and sophisticated regularization make it the dominant algorithm for structured data, bridging mathematical rigor with system engineering excellence.
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Sampling & Guidance: The Dialects of Noise
Advanced GenAI Systems 18 minHow to accelerate diffusion sampling and control output quality. Covers DDIM, DPM-Solver, Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), negative prompting, and inference optimization techniques.