Advanced LLMs 2: Normalizations, FFNs & RoPE

Pre-Norm / Post-Norm; RMSNorm; Activation function(SwiGLU FFN), Rope rotation and length-extrapolation (PI / NTK-aware / YaRN).

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Advanced LLMs 1: Attentions

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