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qlabs-eng/dust

Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

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How fast qlabs-eng/dust is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Oct 4 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +300 in 33 days

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74

Forks +39 in 33 days

0510
7

Merged PRs 0 in 33 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+0+00
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+31+30
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+74+70
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+13+20
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+5+00
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+3+00
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+22+20
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+15+30
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+19+30
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+13+70
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+8+00
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+7+00
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+7+00
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+12+10
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+3+20
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+3+10
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+4+10
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+3+00
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+1+00
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+12+10
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+4+10
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+3+10
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+7+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+11+10
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+4+00
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+2+10
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+4+10
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+0+00
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+4+00
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+1+00
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+2+00
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+2+00
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+1+10
Total+300+390
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  • 7Rank that day
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  1. Oct 61 post
    • The viral read: backprop's monopoly just cracked. Their own TL;DR is calmer: 1,000–10,000x vs EGGROLL is 'based on our extrapolations,' measured wins stop at 1M tokens, and the 20M 'exceeds backprop'…

      Read full on X, posted by @jimmy_longbow_

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  2. Oct 51 post
    • Backprop has been the only credit assignment algorithm capable of training large neural nets. Introducing Dust, the first zeroth-order method to pretrain transformers to approach and sometimes even…

      Read full on X, posted by @industriaalist

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