Events / Raleigh

LLM Architecture in 2026 - DeepSeek Technical Report

A recurring lunchtime study group in Durham/RTP that reads and discusses DeepSeek's technical reports, covering architectural changes beyond standard transformers and post-training methods like RLVR.

Wed, Jul 15, 4:00 PMThe Frontier RTP · Durham · NC

Why it matters

DeepSeek's published architecture and training techniques have directly shaped how cheaper, more efficient frontier-class models get built, making this a working group for anyone tracking inference-cost innovation.

The tokenmaxxing angle

DeepSeek's attention variants and post-training recipes are central to the efficiency-per-token story; a group dissecting them line by line is directly on-topic for model routing and inference cost analysis.

From the organizers

Hosted by Deep Learning RTP (organizer Daniel S.) at The Frontier RTP in Durham; session covers DeepSeek V3/R1 (possibly V4) and RLVR-style post-training methods.