An in-depth look at the architecture of OpenAI's GPT-OSS models, detailing tokenization, embeddings, transformer blocks, Mixture of Experts, attention mechanisms (GQA and RoPE), and quantization techniques.
OpenAI's release of GPT-OSS marks their first major open source LLM since GPT-2, featuring improvements in reasoning, tool usage, and problem-solving capabilities. The article explores its architecture, message formatting, reasoning modes, and tokenizer details.
A user demonstrates how to run a 120B model efficiently on hardware with only 8GB VRAM by offloading MOE layers to CPU and keeping only attention layers on GPU, achieving high performance with minimal VRAM usage.
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. They outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimized for efficient deployment.
