One does not exclude the other though. "Avoiding 3rd party implementations of the transformer model" is a subset of "avoiding 3rd party libraries". "From scratc

One does not exclude the other though. "Avoiding 3rd party implementations of the transformer model" is a subset of "avoiding 3rd party libraries". "From scratch" is, as seen, vague enough for different people to interpret it in different ways. Despite being the minority in this thread, i do not think my interpretation is any less valid - especially since some people have already done such "from scratch" (i.e. in C or C++ with no 3rd party dependencies) implementations already.