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title: "Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation"
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# Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

Source: qlabs.sh
Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49970871
Original source: https://qlabs.sh/research/dust

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