qlabs-eng/dust
- Total stars
- 95
- Today · UTC
- +4since 15:03 UTC
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About the project
A minimal implementation of research on training a transformer with forward evaluations and SGD without backpropagation, plus a backprop baseline. For researchers exploring alternatives to backprop.
Useful for
- Train a transformer without backprop on the FineWeb dataset
- Compare DUST against the SGD backprop baseline on the same model and data
- Run a short 2-step check on the selected dataset
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 6, 2026, 17:02 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show daily stars; the line is a moving average of the available history. Short histories do not yet establish a reliable usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-06 (UTC), 15:03–16:48: 91 → 95 stars (+4). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +10 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 95 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #156.
- About 13 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 95
- Today
- +4 stars measured 2026-10-06, 15:03–16:48 UTC, ≈ 10 by evening
- Forks
- 10
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Created
- October 2, 2026
- Last push
- October 5, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 6, 2026Top new repositories this week: #156
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