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Instructions to use LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- Transformers
How to use LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE with Transformers:
# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper from transformers import pipeline pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE", trust_remote_code=True)# Load model directly from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto") - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
- Local Apps Settings
- vLLM
How to use LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE with vLLM:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install vLLM from pip: pip install vllm # Start the vLLM server: vllm serve "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE" # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker
docker model run hf.co/LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE
- SGLang
How to use LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE with SGLang:
Install from pip and serve model
# Install SGLang from pip: pip install sglang # Start the SGLang server: python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }'Use Docker images
docker run --gpus all \ --shm-size 32g \ -p 30000:30000 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \ --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \ --ipc=host \ lmsysorg/sglang:latest \ python3 -m sglang.launch_server \ --model-path "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE" \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 30000 # Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API): curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{ "model": "LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE", "prompt": "Once upon a time,", "max_tokens": 512, "temperature": 0.5 }' - Docker Model Runner
How to use LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE with Docker Model Runner:
docker model run hf.co/LLM-course/chess-normal-BPE
| """ | |
| Chess Transformer Model for the Chess Challenge. | |
| This module provides a simple GPT-style transformer architecture | |
| designed to fit within the 1M parameter constraint. | |
| Key components: | |
| - ChessConfig: Configuration class for model hyperparameters | |
| - ChessForCausalLM: The main model class for next-move prediction | |
| """ | |
| from __future__ import annotations | |
| import math | |
| from dataclasses import dataclass | |
| from typing import Optional, Tuple, Union | |
| from httpx import head | |
| import torch | |
| import torch.nn as nn | |
| import torch.nn.functional as F | |
| from transformers import PretrainedConfig, PreTrainedModel | |
| from transformers.modeling_outputs import CausalLMOutputWithPast | |
| class ChessConfig(PretrainedConfig): | |
| """ | |
| Configuration class for the Chess Transformer model. | |
| This configuration is designed for a ~1M parameter model. | |
| Students can adjust these values to explore different architectures. | |
| Parameter budget breakdown (with default values): | |
| - Embeddings (vocab): 1200 x 128 = 153,600 | |
| - Position Embeddings: 256 x 128 = 32,768 | |
| - Transformer Layers: 6 x ~120,000 = ~720,000 | |
| - LM Head (with weight tying): 0 (shared with embeddings) | |
| - Total: ~906,000 parameters | |
| Attributes: | |
| vocab_size: Size of the vocabulary (number of unique moves). | |
| n_embd: Embedding dimension (d_model). | |
| n_layer: Number of transformer layers. | |
| n_head: Number of attention heads. | |
| n_ctx: Maximum sequence length (context window). | |
| n_inner: Feed-forward inner dimension (default: 3 * n_embd). | |
| dropout: Dropout probability. | |
| layer_norm_epsilon: Epsilon for layer normalization. | |
| tie_weights: Whether to tie embedding and output weights. | |
| """ | |
| model_type = "chess_transformer" | |
| def __init__( | |
| self, | |
| vocab_size: int = 1792, | |
| n_embd: int = 128, | |
| n_layer: int = 10, # increased | |
| n_head: int = 4, | |
| n_ctx: int = 256, | |
| n_inner: Optional[int] = None, | |
| dropout: float = 0.1, | |
| layer_norm_epsilon: float = 1e-5, | |
| tie_weights: bool = True, | |
| pad_token_id: int = 0, | |
| bos_token_id: int = 1, | |
| eos_token_id: int = 2, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ): | |
| super().__init__( | |
| pad_token_id=pad_token_id, | |
| bos_token_id=bos_token_id, | |
| eos_token_id=eos_token_id, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) | |
| self.vocab_size = vocab_size | |
| self.n_embd = n_embd | |
| self.n_layer = n_layer | |
| self.n_head = n_head | |
| self.n_ctx = n_ctx | |
| self.n_inner = n_inner if n_inner is not None else 3 * n_embd # Reduced from 4x to 3x | |
| self.dropout = dropout | |
| self.layer_norm_epsilon = layer_norm_epsilon | |
| self.tie_weights = tie_weights | |
| # Inform HF base class about tying behavior | |
| self.tie_word_embeddings = bool(tie_weights) | |
| class RMSNorm(nn.Module): | |
| def __init__(self, dim: int, eps: float = 1e-6): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.eps = eps | |
| self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(dim)) | |
| def forward(self, x): | |
| var = torch.mean(x**2, dim = -1, keepdim= True) | |
| x = x * torch.rsqrt(var + self.eps) | |
| return self.weight * x | |
| class SwiGLU(nn.Module): | |
| def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.w1 = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_inner, bias = False) | |
| self.w2 = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_inner, bias = False) | |
| self.w3 = nn.Linear(config.n_inner, config.n_embd, bias = False) | |
| self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout) | |
| def forward(self, x): | |
| x1 = self.w1(x) | |
| x2 = self.w2(x) | |
| hidden = F.silu(x1) * x2 | |
| return self.dropout(self.w3(hidden)) | |
| class RotaryEmbedding(nn.Module): | |
| def __init__(self, head_dim: int, max_position_embeddings: int = 2048, base: float = 10000.0): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.head_dim = head_dim | |
| self.max_pos = max_position_embeddings | |
| inv_freq = 1.0 / (base ** (torch.arange(0, head_dim, 2).float() / head_dim)) | |
| self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False) | |
| self.recompute_cache(max_position_embeddings) | |
| def recompute_cache(self, max_pos): | |
| self.max_pos = max_pos | |
| t = torch.arange(max_pos, device=self.inv_freq.device, dtype=self.inv_freq.dtype) | |
| freqs = torch.outer(t, self.inv_freq) | |
| emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1) | |
| self.register_buffer("cos_cached", emb.cos()[None, None, :, :], persistent=False) | |
| self.register_buffer("sin_cached", emb.sin()[None, None, :, :], persistent=False) | |
| def forward(self, x, seq_len=None): | |
| # x shape: [Batch, Heads, Seq, Dim] | |
| if seq_len > self.max_pos: | |
| self.recompute_cache(seq_len) | |
| return ( | |
| self.cos_cached[..., :seq_len, :].to(dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device), | |
| self.sin_cached[..., :seq_len, :].to(dtype=x.dtype, device=x.device) | |
| ) | |
| def rotate_half(x): | |
| x1 = x[..., : x.shape[-1] // 2] | |
| x2 = x[..., x.shape[-1] // 2 :] | |
| return torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1) | |
| def apply_rotary_emb(q, k, cos, sin): | |
| # q, k: [Batch, Heads, Seq, Dim] | |
| # cos, sin: [1, 1, Seq, Dim] | |
| q_embed = (q * cos) + (rotate_half(q) * sin) | |
| k_embed = (k * cos) + (rotate_half(k) * sin) | |
| return q_embed, k_embed | |
| class MultiQueryAttention(nn.Module): | |
| """ | |
| Multi-head self-attention module. | |
| This is a standard scaled dot-product attention implementation | |
| with causal masking for autoregressive generation. | |
| """ | |
| def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| assert config.n_embd % config.n_head == 0, \ | |
| f"n_embd ({config.n_embd}) must be divisible by n_head ({config.n_head})" | |
| self.n_head = config.n_head | |
| self.n_embd = config.n_embd | |
| self.head_dim = config.n_embd // config.n_head | |
| # Combined QKV projection for efficiency | |
| self.c_q = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd, bias = False) | |
| self.c_k = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, self.head_dim, bias = False) | |
| self.c_v = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, self.head_dim, bias = False) | |
| self.c_proj = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd) | |
| self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout) | |
| # Causal mask (will be created on first forward pass) | |
| self.register_buffer( | |
| "bias", | |
| torch.tril(torch.ones(config.n_ctx, config.n_ctx)).view( | |
| 1, 1, config.n_ctx, config.n_ctx | |
| ), | |
| persistent=False, | |
| ) | |
| def forward( | |
| self, | |
| x: torch.Tensor, | |
| freqs_cos: torch.Tensor, | |
| freqs_sin: torch.Tensor, | |
| attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, | |
| ) -> torch.Tensor: | |
| batch_size, seq_len, _ = x.size() | |
| q = self.c_q(x).view(batch_size, seq_len, self.n_head, self.head_dim) | |
| k = self.c_k(x).view(batch_size, seq_len, 1, self.head_dim) | |
| v = self.c_v(x).view(batch_size, seq_len, 1, self.head_dim) | |
| q = q.transpose(1, 2) | |
| k = k.transpose(1, 2) | |
| v = v.transpose(1, 2) | |
| q, k = apply_rotary_emb(q, k, freqs_cos, freqs_sin) | |
| # Scaled dot-product attention | |
| attn_weights = torch.matmul(q, k.transpose(-2, -1)) / math.sqrt(self.head_dim) | |
| # Apply causal mask | |
| causal_mask = self.bias[:, :, :seq_len, :seq_len] | |
| attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(causal_mask == 0, float("-inf")) | |
| # Apply attention mask (for padding) | |
| if attention_mask is not None: | |
| # attention_mask shape: (batch_size, seq_len) -> (batch_size, 1, 1, seq_len) | |
| attention_mask = attention_mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(2) | |
| attn_weights = attn_weights.masked_fill(attention_mask == 0, float("-inf")) | |
| attn_weights = F.softmax(attn_weights, dim=-1) | |
| attn_weights = self.dropout(attn_weights) | |
| # Apply attention to values | |
| attn_output = torch.matmul(attn_weights, v) | |
| # Reshape back | |
| attn_output = attn_output.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view( | |
| batch_size, seq_len, self.n_embd | |
| ) | |
| # Output projection | |
| attn_output = self.c_proj(attn_output) | |
| return attn_output | |
| class FeedForward(nn.Module): | |
| """ | |
| Feed-forward network (MLP) module. | |
| Standard two-layer MLP with GELU activation. | |
| """ | |
| def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.net = nn.Sequential( | |
| nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_inner, bias = False), | |
| nn.GELU(), | |
| nn.Linear(config.n_inner, config.n_embd, bias = False), | |
| nn.Dropout(config.dropout) | |
| ) | |
| def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: | |
| return self.net(x) | |
| class TransformerBlock(nn.Module): | |
| """ | |
| A single transformer block with attention and feed-forward layers. | |
| Uses pre-normalization (LayerNorm before attention/FFN) for better | |
| training stability. | |
| """ | |
| def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig): | |
| super().__init__() | |
| self.ln_1 = RMSNorm(config.n_embd) | |
| self.attn = MultiQueryAttention(config) | |
| self.ln_2 = RMSNorm(config.n_embd) | |
| self.mlp = SwiGLU(config)# FeedForward(config) | |
| def forward( | |
| self, | |
| x: torch.Tensor, | |
| cos: torch.Tensor, | |
| sin: torch.Tensor, | |
| attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, | |
| ) -> torch.Tensor: | |
| # Pre-norm attention | |
| x = x + self.attn(self.ln_1(x), cos, sin, attention_mask=attention_mask) | |
| # Pre-norm FFN | |
| x = x + self.mlp(self.ln_2(x)) | |
| return x | |
| class ChessForCausalLM(PreTrainedModel): | |
| """ | |
| Chess Transformer for Causal Language Modeling (next-move prediction). | |
| This model is designed to predict the next chess move given a sequence | |
| of previous moves. It uses a GPT-style architecture with: | |
| - Token embeddings for chess moves | |
| - Learned positional embeddings | |
| - Stacked transformer blocks | |
| - Linear head for next-token prediction | |
| The model supports weight tying between the embedding layer and the | |
| output projection to save parameters. | |
| Example: | |
| >>> config = ChessConfig(vocab_size=1200, n_embd=128, n_layer=6) | |
| >>> model = ChessForCausalLM(config) | |
| >>> inputs = {"input_ids": torch.tensor([[1, 42, 87]])} | |
| >>> outputs = model(**inputs) | |
| >>> next_move_logits = outputs.logits[:, -1, :] | |
| """ | |
| config_class = ChessConfig | |
| base_model_prefix = "transformer" | |
| supports_gradient_checkpointing = True | |
| # Suppress missing-key warning for tied lm_head when loading | |
| keys_to_ignore_on_load_missing = ["lm_head.weight"] | |
| def __init__(self, config: ChessConfig): | |
| super().__init__(config) | |
| # Token and position embeddings | |
| self.wte = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.n_embd) | |
| # self.wpe = nn.Embedding(config.n_ctx, config.n_embd) | |
| self.drop = nn.Dropout(config.dropout) | |
| # Transformer blocks | |
| # self.h = nn.ModuleList([ | |
| # TransformerBlock(config) for _ in range(config.n_layer) | |
| # ]) | |
| self.universal_block = TransformerBlock(config) | |
| # Final layer norm | |
| self.ln_f = RMSNorm(config.n_embd) | |
| # Output head | |
| self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.vocab_size, bias=False) | |
| self.register_buffer("freqs_cos", torch.zeros(1), persistent = False) | |
| self.register_buffer("freqs_sin", torch.zeros(1), persistent = False) | |
| # Declare tied weights for proper serialization | |
| if config.tie_weights: | |
| self._tied_weights_keys = ["lm_head.weight"] | |
| # Initialize weights | |
| self.post_init() | |
| # Tie weights if configured | |
| if config.tie_weights: | |
| self.tie_weights() | |
| self.rotary = RotaryEmbedding( | |
| config.n_embd // config.n_head | |
| ) | |
| def get_input_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module: | |
| return self.wte | |
| def set_input_embeddings(self, new_embeddings: nn.Module): | |
| self.wte = new_embeddings | |
| if getattr(self.config, "tie_weights", False): | |
| self.tie_weights() | |
| def get_output_embeddings(self) -> nn.Module: | |
| return self.lm_head | |
| def set_output_embeddings(self, new_embeddings: nn.Module): | |
| self.lm_head = new_embeddings | |
| def tie_weights(self): | |
| # Use HF helper to tie or clone depending on config | |
| if getattr(self.config, "tie_weights", False) or getattr(self.config, "tie_word_embeddings", False): | |
| self._tie_or_clone_weights(self.lm_head, self.wte) | |
| def _init_weights(self, module: nn.Module): | |
| """Initialize weights following GPT-2 style.""" | |
| if isinstance(module, nn.Linear): | |
| torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02) | |
| if module.bias is not None: | |
| torch.nn.init.zeros_(module.bias) | |
| elif isinstance(module, nn.Embedding): | |
| torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02) | |
| elif isinstance(module, nn.LayerNorm): | |
| torch.nn.init.ones_(module.weight) | |
| torch.nn.init.zeros_(module.bias) | |
| def forward( | |
| self, | |
| input_ids: torch.LongTensor, | |
| attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, | |
| position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, | |
| labels: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None, | |
| return_dict: Optional[bool] = None, | |
| **kwargs, | |
| ) -> Union[Tuple, CausalLMOutputWithPast]: | |
| """ | |
| Forward pass of the model. | |
| Args: | |
| input_ids: Token IDs of shape (batch_size, seq_len). | |
| attention_mask: Attention mask of shape (batch_size, seq_len). | |
| position_ids: Position IDs of shape (batch_size, seq_len). | |
| labels: Labels for language modeling loss. | |
| return_dict: Whether to return a ModelOutput object. | |
| Returns: | |
| CausalLMOutputWithPast containing loss (if labels provided) and logits. | |
| """ | |
| return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict | |
| batch_size, seq_len = input_ids.size() | |
| device = input_ids.device | |
| # Create position IDs if not provided | |
| if position_ids is None: | |
| position_ids = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device).unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, -1) | |
| # Get embeddings | |
| hidden_states = self.wte(input_ids) | |
| cos, sin = self.rotary(hidden_states, hidden_states.size(1)) | |
| if cos.device != hidden_states.device: | |
| cos, sin = cos.to(hidden_states.device), sin.to(hidden_states.device) | |
| all_logits = [] | |
| # Pass through transformer blocks | |
| for step in range(8): | |
| hidden_states = self.universal_block(hidden_states, cos, sin, attention_mask=attention_mask) | |
| hidden_states = self.ln_f(hidden_states) | |
| step_logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states) | |
| all_logits.append(step_logits) | |
| # Final layer norm | |
| hidden_states = self.ln_f(hidden_states) | |
| # Get logits | |
| logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states) | |
| # Compute loss if labels are provided | |
| loss = None | |
| if labels is not None: | |
| # Shift logits and labels for next-token prediction | |
| shift_labels = labels[..., 1:].contiguous() | |
| loss_fct = nn.CrossEntropyLoss(ignore_index = -100) | |
| total_loss = 0.0 | |
| for step_logits in all_logits: | |
| shift_logits = step_logits[..., :-1, :].contiguous() | |
| total_loss += loss_fct( | |
| shift_logits.view(-1, self.config.vocab_size), | |
| shift_labels.view(-1) | |
| ) | |
| loss = total_loss / len(all_logits) | |
| if not return_dict: | |
| output = (logits,) | |
| return ((loss,) + output) if loss is not None else output | |
| return CausalLMOutputWithPast( | |
| loss=loss, | |
| logits=logits, | |
| past_key_values=None, | |
| hidden_states=None, | |
| attentions=None, | |
| ) | |
| def generate_move( | |
| self, | |
| input_ids: torch.LongTensor, | |
| temperature: float = 1.0, | |
| top_k: Optional[int] = None, | |
| top_p: Optional[float] = None, | |
| ) -> int: | |
| """ | |
| Generate the next move given a sequence of moves. | |
| Args: | |
| input_ids: Token IDs of shape (1, seq_len). | |
| temperature: Sampling temperature (1.0 = no change). | |
| top_k: If set, only sample from top k tokens. | |
| top_p: If set, use nucleus sampling with this threshold. | |
| Returns: | |
| The token ID of the predicted next move. | |
| """ | |
| self.eval() | |
| # Get logits for the last position | |
| outputs = self(input_ids) | |
| logits = outputs.logits[:, -1, :] / temperature | |
| # Apply top-k filtering | |
| if top_k is not None: | |
| indices_to_remove = logits < torch.topk(logits, top_k)[0][..., -1, None] | |
| logits[indices_to_remove] = float("-inf") | |
| # Apply top-p (nucleus) filtering | |
| if top_p is not None: | |
| sorted_logits, sorted_indices = torch.sort(logits, descending=True) | |
| cumulative_probs = torch.cumsum(F.softmax(sorted_logits, dim=-1), dim=-1) | |
| # Remove tokens with cumulative probability above the threshold | |
| sorted_indices_to_remove = cumulative_probs > top_p | |
| sorted_indices_to_remove[..., 1:] = sorted_indices_to_remove[..., :-1].clone() | |
| sorted_indices_to_remove[..., 0] = 0 | |
| indices_to_remove = sorted_indices_to_remove.scatter( | |
| dim=-1, index=sorted_indices, src=sorted_indices_to_remove | |
| ) | |
| logits[indices_to_remove] = float("-inf") | |
| # Sample from the distribution | |
| probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1) | |
| next_token = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1) | |
| return next_token.item() | |
| # Register the model with Auto classes for easy loading | |
| from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoModelForCausalLM | |
| AutoConfig.register("chess_transformer", ChessConfig) | |
| AutoModelForCausalLM.register(ChessConfig, ChessForCausalLM) | |