Towards Data Science
Jul 22

How To Build Your Own LLM Runtime From Scratch

If you have ever wanted to actually build an LLM inference runtime yourself — pack your own weights, own every barrier, capture your own CUDA graphs — this is what that journey looks like on an H100. A step-by-step tour of a small runtime called annotated-llm-runtime, and the three bugs that produced most of the annotations.

By Anubhab Banerjee
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and Quantization

arXiv:2605. 29128v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The wide adoption of LLMs has led to their use in great variety of applications and scenarios, such as chatbot assistants and data annotation, creating the need for the models to satisfy certain budget and hardware constraints.

By Andrei Panferov, Davit Melikidze, Martin Jaggi, Dan Alistarh