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2026-08-27
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How Transformers Work
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How Long-Context LLMs Work — From RoPE Interpolation to Ring Attention
A "128K context window" is two different walls, knocked down by two unrelated families of tricks. This walks through positional interpolation, NTK-aware scaling and YaRN for the position wall; sliding windows and ring attention for the compute wall; and how to read a needle-in-a-haystack chart without being fooled by it.