Trained Tiny Tales GPT(30M model)from scratch and deployed in $15
For the last few weeks, I have been working on training an LLM from scratch and deploying it in production on Google Cloud Platform. Finally, I trained a 30 million parameter model on 1 billion tokens and deployed it as a web service. You can access the LLM using this site - https://kunalmishra.info The following steps were taken to build Tiny Tales GPT 1. Downloaded and preprocessed 8GB of dataset using multiprocessing library. 2. Tokenized the data using byte pair encoding to create 1 billion tokens sharded in different bin files. 3. Defined a training setup and trained the model…
Trained Tiny Tales GPT(30M model)from scratch and deployed in $15 launched on April 17, 2024 with 18 votes, #888 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Trained Tiny Tales GPT is a 30-million parameter language model trained from scratch on 1 billion tokens and deployed as a web service. The model uses a LLaMA-style architecture and was trained on preprocessed text data using distributed training across GPUs. It is designed for users who want to interact with a smaller, production-deployed language model. The project demonstrates the complete pipeline from dataset preparation and tokenization through model training and cloud deployment.
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For the last few weeks, I have been working on training an LLM from scratch and deploying it in production on Google Cloud Platform. Finally, I trained a 30 million parameter model on 1 billion tokens and deployed it as a web service. You can access the LLM using this site - https://kunalmishra.info The…
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