Above All

Advanced LLM Notes (Model-Arch, Infra, Data, Pre/Mid/Post-Training), always updating.

2026-10-12 · 1 min · 80 words · Xiyuan Yang

Model Architecture

Base Model Architecture

2026-11-02 · 1 min · 3 words · Xiyuan Yang

Pre-Training

Pretraining data, dynamics and optimizers.

2026-11-02 · 1 min · 5 words · Xiyuan Yang

Mid-Training

Mid-training: papers and tech reports. (Continual pretraining, data recipe, retention)

2026-10-12 · 1 min · 10 words · Xiyuan Yang

Post Training

Frontier LLM post-training: data mixture & post-training algorithms.

2026-11-02 · 1 min · 8 words · Xiyuan Yang

LLM Infra

LLM Codebase & Infra

2026-10-08 · 1 min · 91 words · Xiyuan Yang