[
  {
    "id": "dust",
    "title": "Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation",
    "pageTitle": "Dust Lab",
    "paperTitle": "Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation",
    "description": "An interactive explanation of training transformers without backpropagation, with a small model to experiment with.",
    "url": "https://qlabs.sh/research/dust",
    "lab": "/labs/dust/",
    "topic": "Machine learning",
    "source": "Q Labs",
    "year": "2026",
    "kind": "interactive",
    "createdAt": "2026-11-06T12:00:00.000Z"
  }
]