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The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design
Jul 19, 2025 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
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Understanding Reasoning LLMs
Feb 5, 2025 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Understanding and Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Causal-Attention, and Cross-Attention in LLMs
Jan 14, 2024
Components of A Coding Agent
Apr 4 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
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
May 16 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures
A learning-oriented workflow for understanding new open-weight model releases
Apr 18 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Components of A Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
Apr 4 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs
From MHA and GQA to MLA, sparse attention, and hybrid architectures
Mar 22 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
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
Feb 25 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning
And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers
Jan 24 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
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.
Dec 30, 2025 • Sebastian Raschka, PhD
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