The Math Behind Kimi K2: How a Chinese Startup Beat Silicon Valley at 1% of the Cost
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. A complete mathematical breakdown of three architectural innovations that let $4.6M beat $500M — with proofs, intuition, and the blueprint for understanding I’ve spent the last 72 hours obsessively reverse-engineering Kimi K2’s architecture. Grab coffee. …
The Proof is in the Preference: Why DPO is the New RLHF
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. The Proof is in the Preference: Why DPO is the New RLHF Stop debugging PPO. Direct Preference Optimization solved the alignment puzzle with a single, stable loss function. Stop debugging PPO. Direct Preference Optimization solved …
The Two Faces of Forecasting
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. Why Amazon’s $469B Supply Chain Split the Problem in Half (And Why Your Company Should Too) The Mathematical Revolution That Transformed Chaos Into Coordination Picture this: You’re in a boardroom. The CFO demands next quarter’s …
Multimodal AI Is Just Tensor Algebra: The Linear Algebra Truth Behind Vision-Language Models
Author(s): DrSwarnenduAI Originally published on Towards AI. The Mathematical Symphony That Powers Billion-Dollar AI Systems After reverse-engineering the mathematical foundations of GPT-4V, DALL-E, and Claude 3, I’ve discovered something profound: these systems that seem to “understand” images and text are performing a …