Reading Notes

Notes and summaries from reading ML/AI papers (and some blog posts). All credit to the content in the papers and blog posts goes to the original authors.

Language Models use Lookbacks to Track Beliefs

lookback mechanisms

12 min read · February 21, 2026

2026 · distillation
Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching

Zweiger KV compaction

4 min read · February 20, 2026

2026 · distillation
BRIDGE: Predicting Human Task Completion Time From Model Performance

Predicting Human Time from IRT difficulty

1 min read · February 17, 2026

2026 · partial-read · distillation
HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generative Models

Hunyuan video

2 min read · February 16, 2026

2026 · distillation
Exploring Multimodal Diffusion Transformers for Enhanced Prompt-based Image Editing

activation patching and attention maps in MM-DiTs

3 min read · February 14, 2026

2026 · distillation