FlashAttention Explained: The Optimization That Made Modern LLMs Practical

Hello, I'm Shrijith Venkatramana. I'm building git-lrc, an AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. Star Us to help devs discover the project. Do give it a try and share your feedback for improving the product. Large language models keep getting bigger. Context windows have grown from a few thousand tokens to hundreds of thousands, and some models now advertise context lengths measured in millions of tokens. Yet for years, one part of the Transformer threatened to become the bottleneck:...