Prof to Hand-Calculate Kimi 3 Architecture: Extreme MoE Sparsity

ProfTomYeh · x · 2026-08-02

Prof. Tom Yeh announced a new 'AI by Hand' seminar focusing on frontier LLM architectures. The session will manually calculate and sketch the math behind Kimi 3 (Moonshot AI), including Kimi Delta Attention, attention residuals, and extreme MoE sparsity (activating just 16 of 896 experts in a 2.8T-parameter model). The lecture will also cover architectural optimizations in Google's Gemma 4 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.6.

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