This post focuses on the accurate measurement of the number of cycles needed to execute a particular CUDA device code snippet. We will use the clock() function for the measurement and focus on adjusting the compiled device code using an …
UPDATE 06. 06. 2026.
Note that this implementation does not support Multi-Query Attention (MQA). There is a good implementation that has also MQA support in Vulkan backend of llama.cpp since this code was published. I renamed the article …
In this post, the gradient of the attention op will be derived from a single rule used to implement reverse mode automatic differentiation.
Attention mechanism is the foundational building block of the transformer architecture that is the …
