Llama 3 (2024) Paper Notes
Paper notes on The Llama 3 Herd of Models: 15T tokens, a 405B flagship, 128K context, and a design philosophy of 'managing complexity' (dense over MoE, SFT → rejection sampling → DPO instead of PPO) — the paper where an open-weight model first reaches GPT-4-class performance. It completes Llama 2's skeleton through scale, data, and simplicity.