<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Libraries — Frontier Checkpoint</title><description>Hands-on tool spotlights. What each one is great at, what it costs you, where it&apos;ll surprise you, and whether it&apos;s worth switching to over what you already run — the candid guidance you&apos;d want from a teammate who&apos;s already lived with it in production.</description><link>https://frontiercheckpoint.com/</link><item><title>TRL in Anger: SFT, DPO, and GRPO Without Rewriting Your Training Loop</title><link>https://frontiercheckpoint.com/libraries/trl-sft-dpo-grpo-library/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://frontiercheckpoint.com/libraries/trl-sft-dpo-grpo-library/</guid><description>TRL turns SFT, DPO, and GRPO into Trainer subclasses that inherit the entire Hugging Face stack — accelerate, peft, DeepSpeed. The convenience is real; the cost is that you&apos;re debugging someone else&apos;s training loop the moment your problem stops looking like the quickstart.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Libraries</category><category>dpo</category><category>grpo</category><category>peft</category><category>fine-tuning</category><category>rlhf</category><author>editors@frontiercheckpoint.com</author></item><item><title>vLLM, Explained: PagedAttention, Continuous Batching, and the Serving Stack</title><link>https://frontiercheckpoint.com/libraries/vllm-paged-attention-serving/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://frontiercheckpoint.com/libraries/vllm-paged-attention-serving/</guid><description>vLLM treats the KV cache like OS virtual memory — non-contiguous paged blocks — and schedules work at the token, not the request. You get high aggregate throughput; the cost is that per-request latency becomes something you tune rather than something you get for free.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Libraries</category><category>paged-attention</category><category>kv-cache</category><category>serving</category><category>llm</category><author>editors@frontiercheckpoint.com</author></item></channel></rss>