Stanford CS336 wraps up with deep dive into GPU programming and frontier inference
stanfordnlp · x · 2026-08-22
The Stanford CS336 (Deep Learning Systems) course is concluding. A student shared their experience from the final weeks, including reading GPU papers, understanding concepts like Multi-Turn RL CUDA and RLVR (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards), and clarifying the delineation between pre/mid/post-training. The final lecture featured a guest talk by TogetherAI's VP of Kernels on recent GPU and inference practices.
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