<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Systems on Saurav Panigrahi</title><link>https://sauravpanigrahi.com/tags/systems/</link><description>Recent content in Systems on Saurav Panigrahi</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://sauravpanigrahi.com/tags/systems/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>ML Systems</title><link>https://sauravpanigrahi.com/reading/ml-systems/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sauravpanigrahi.com/reading/ml-systems/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Long-form references on training, infrastructure, and implementation practice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="training-systems"&gt;Training Systems&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://djdumpling.github.io/2026/01/31/frontier_training.html"&gt;Frontier Model Training Methodologies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Survey of open frontier training recipes and implementation choices.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/"&gt;Scaling LLMs with JAX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Book-length treatment of distributed training practice.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03276"&gt;Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
From-scratch multimodal pretraining study with useful details on representation choices and scaling behavior.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="embeddings-and-retrieval"&gt;Embeddings And Retrieval&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://blog.jxmo.io/p/how-to-train-the-best-embedding-model"&gt;How to Train the Best Embedding Model in the World&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Detailed engineering writeup on embedding model training, label noise, verification, and dataset scale.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h2 id="gpu-programming"&gt;GPU Programming&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.gpumode.com/home"&gt;GPU MODE&lt;/a&gt;
Community and resource hub for GPU programming.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Research Engineering</title><link>https://sauravpanigrahi.com/reading/research-engineering/</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://sauravpanigrahi.com/reading/research-engineering/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Selected references on research taste, engineering judgment, and doing useful technical work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="research-taste"&gt;Research Taste&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://distill.pub/"&gt;Distill&lt;/a&gt;
Essays with a high bar for clear technical exposition.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html"&gt;You and Your Research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Hamming&amp;rsquo;s classic essay on choosing important problems and organizing a life around serious work.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html"&gt;An Opinionated Guide to ML Research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Practical advice on developing taste and becoming effective in machine learning research.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://michaelnielsen.org/blog/principles-of-effective-research/"&gt;Principles of Effective Research&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
A useful frame for research as a skill that can be deliberately improved.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>