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02 ARTICLES · ARCHITECTURES & OPTIMIZATION

01 / ArchitecturesLONG-FORM ARTICLE

Understanding Kimi Delta Attention

From associative memory to parallel computation.

Deriving corrective writes, selective decay, WY-style matrix transitions and the triangular solve behind chunkwise KDA.

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02/
Optimization  ·  LONG-FORM ARTICLE

Muon from First Principles

From AdamW and matrix geometry to the polar factor, Newton–Schulz and practical GPU-efficient Muon updates.

19 min read