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How do people come up with massive papers like FlashAttention & Muon Optimizer?

Just boggles my mind how they just dream up these insane optimisations from nowhere that seems so simple after the fact but impossible to come up with anything like that. And most of these are genreally PhD level they aren’t always at the level of some super advanced professor. So is it a mix of lu…

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  1. 2026-09-20 12:22 · r/learnmachinelearning
    How do people come up with massive papers like FlashAttention & Muon Optimizer?

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