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<h1>🧠 Complete LLM Pretraining Pipeline</h1>
<p class="subtitle">Build a ~100M parameter general-text language model from scratch on a single GPU</p>
<div>
<span class="badge highlight">100M Parameters</span>
<span class="badge highlight">Single GPU</span>
<span class="badge highlight">General Text</span>
<span class="badge">Causal LM (GPT-style)</span>
<span class="badge">Hugging Face Ecosystem</span>
<span class="badge">Open Datasets</span>
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<div class="toc">
<h3 style="margin-top:0;color:#38bdf8;">πŸ“‹ Table of Contents</h3>
<a href="#overview">1. Project Overview & Architecture</a>
<a href="#setup">2. Environment Setup</a>
<a href="#data">3. Data Sourcing & Preparation</a>
<a href="#tokenizer">4. Train Custom Tokenizer</a>
<a href="#model">5. Model Configuration</a>
<a href="#training">6. Training Script</a>
<a href="#optimization">7. Memory Optimizations</a>
<a href="#evaluation">8. Evaluation & Benchmarking</a>
<a href="#inference">9. Inference & Text Generation</a>
<a href="#alignment">10. Optional: SFT/DPO Alignment</a>
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<!-- SECTION 1: OVERVIEW -->
<h2 id="overview">1. Project Overview & Architecture</h2>
<div class="note">
<strong>Goal:</strong> Train a small but capable causal language model from scratch using only publicly available data and a single GPU (8-24GB VRAM).
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<h3>Model Architecture (100M params)</h3>
<table>
<tr><th>Component</th><th>Setting</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
<tr><td>Architecture</td><td>GPT-Neo style (decoder-only)</td><td>Proven, efficient, well-supported</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hidden Size</td><td>768</td><td>Embedding dimension</td></tr>
<tr><td>Layers</td><td>12</td><td>Transformer blocks</td></tr>
<tr><td>Attention Heads</td><td>12</td><td>64 dim per head</td></tr>
<tr><td>FFN Dim</td><td>3072</td><td>4Γ— hidden size</td></tr>
<tr><td>Vocab Size</td><td>32,000</td><td>Trained BPE tokenizer</td></tr>
<tr><td>Context Length</td><td>512</td><td>Trainable on single GPU</td></tr>
<tr><td>Parameters</td><td>~100M</td><td>Perfect for experimentation</td></tr>
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<h3>Recommended GPU Specs</h3>
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<h4>πŸ’» Minimum: RTX 3060 12GB</h4>
<p>Batch size 4-8, gradient accumulation</p>
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<h4>🎯 Recommended: RTX 4090 24GB</h4>
<p>Batch size 16-32, faster training</p>
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<h4>☁️ Cloud: A100 40GB / L4 24GB</h4>
<p>Maximum throughput, bf16 support</p>
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<div class="note warning">
<strong>Training Time Estimate:</strong> On RTX 4090, ~2-4 hours for 1 epoch over 10B tokens. Full convergence may take 3-10 epochs depending on data quality.
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<!-- SECTION 2: SETUP -->
<h2 id="setup">2. Environment Setup</h2>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">1</span>
<strong>Create project structure:</strong>
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<div class="file-tree">
<span class="dir">llm-project/</span>
β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="dir">data/</span> <span class="comment-tree"># Raw and processed datasets</span>
β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="dir">tokenizer/</span> <span class="comment-tree"># Trained tokenizer files</span>
β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="dir">models/</span> <span class="comment-tree"># Saved model checkpoints</span>
β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="dir">scripts/</span> <span class="comment-tree"># Training scripts</span>
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="file">train_tokenizer.py</span>
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="file">pretrain.py</span>
β”‚ β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="file">evaluate.py</span>
β”‚ └── <span class="file">generate.py</span>
β”œβ”€β”€ <span class="file">requirements.txt</span>
└── <span class="file">README.md</span>
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<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">2</span>
<strong>Install dependencies:</strong>
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<span class="lang">bash</span>
<pre>
<span class="comment"># Create virtual environment</span>
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate <span class="comment"># Linux/Mac</span>
<span class="comment"># venv\Scripts\activate # Windows</span>
<span class="comment"># Install core dependencies</span>
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121
pip install transformers datasets tokenizers accelerate wandb
pip install huggingface_hub sentencepiece protobuf
<span class="comment"># Optional: for optimization</span>
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation <span class="comment"># Requires CUDA 11.6+</span>
pip install bitsandbytes deepspeed
<span class="comment"># For evaluation</span>
pip install lm-eval
<span class="comment"># For alignment (SFT/DPO)</span>
pip install trl peft
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<span class="lang">txt</span>
<span class="comment"># requirements.txt (save this)</span>
<pre>
torch>=2.1.0
transformers>=4.40.0
datasets>=2.18.0
tokenizers>=0.19.0
accelerate>=0.29.0
huggingface-hub>=0.22.0
wandb>=0.16.0
sentencepiece>=0.2.0
protobuf>=4.25.0
flash-attn>=2.5.0
bitsandbytes>=0.43.0
deepspeed>=0.14.0
trl>=0.8.0
peft>=0.10.0
lm-eval>=0.4.0
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<div class="note">
<strong>Login to Hugging Face:</strong> You'll need a token to upload models and access some datasets.
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<pre>
huggingface-cli login
<span class="comment"># Or in Python:</span>
<span class="keyword">from</span> huggingface_hub <span class="keyword">import</span> login
login(token=<span class="string">"your_hf_token"</span>)
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<h2 id="data">3. Data Sourcing & Preparation</h2>
<div class="note success">
We'll use a mix of <strong>high-quality open datasets</strong> that together provide ~15-20B tokens β€” perfect for training a 100M model.
</div>
<h3>Recommended Dataset Mix</h3>
<table>
<tr><th>Dataset</th><th>Size</th><th>Type</th><th>HF Hub ID</th></tr>
<tr><td>Fineweb-Edu</td><td>~1.3B tokens</td><td>Educational web text</td><td><code>HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>The Pile (subset)</td><td>~2B tokens</td><td>Diverse academic/text</td><td><code>EleutherAI/pile</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>Project Gutenberg (PG19)</td><td>~3B tokens</td><td>Classic literature</td><td><code>pg19</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenWebText</td><td>~8B tokens</td><td>Web text (Reddit links)</td><td><code>Skylion007/openwebtext</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>C4 (en)</td><td>~15B tokens</td><td>Cleaned Common Crawl</td><td><code>allenai/c4</code></td></tr>
</table>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">3</span>
<strong>Create data preparation script:</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/prepare_data.py</span>
<span class="keyword">import</span> os
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_dataset, concatenate_datasets, DatasetDict
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> AutoTokenizer
<span class="keyword">import</span> random
<span class="variable">SEED</span> = <span class="number">42</span>
random.seed(<span class="variable">SEED</span>)
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">load_and_mix_datasets</span>(target_tokens=<span class="number">5_000_000_000</span>, streaming=<span class="keyword">True</span>):
<span class="string">"""
Load and mix datasets for pretraining.
Target: ~5B tokens (good starting point for 100M model)
"""</span>
datasets_config = [
{<span class="string">"name"</span>: <span class="string">"HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu"</span>, <span class="string">"split"</span>: <span class="string">"train"</span>, <span class="string">"weight"</span>: <span class="number">0.30</span>, <span class="string">"text_col"</span>: <span class="string">"text"</span>},
{<span class="string">"name"</span>: <span class="string">"Skylion007/openwebtext"</span>, <span class="string">"split"</span>: <span class="string">"train"</span>, <span class="string">"weight"</span>: <span class="number">0.25</span>, <span class="string">"text_col"</span>: <span class="string">"text"</span>},
{<span class="string">"name"</span>: <span class="string">"allenai/c4"</span>, <span class="string">"split"</span>: <span class="string">"train"</span>, <span class="string">"weight"</span>: <span class="number">0.25</span>, <span class="string">"text_col"</span>: <span class="string">"text"</span>},
{<span class="string">"name"</span>: <span class="string">"bookcorpus"</span>, <span class="string">"split"</span>: <span class="string">"train"</span>, <span class="string">"weight"</span>: <span class="number">0.20</span>, <span class="string">"text_col"</span>: <span class="string">"text"</span>},
]
all_datasets = []
<span class="keyword">for</span> config <span class="keyword">in</span> datasets_config:
print(<span class="string">f"Loading {config['name']}..."</span>)
<span class="keyword">try</span>:
ds = load_dataset(
config[<span class="string">"name"</span>],
split=config[<span class="string">"split"</span>],
streaming=streaming,
trust_remote_code=<span class="keyword">True</span>
)
<span class="comment"># Take weighted subset</span>
ds = ds.shuffle(seed=<span class="variable">SEED</span>)
all_datasets.append((ds, config[<span class="string">"text_col"</span>], config[<span class="string">"weight"</span>]))
<span class="keyword">except</span> Exception <span class="keyword">as</span> e:
print(<span class="string">f"Warning: Could not load {config['name']}: {e}"</span>)
<span class="keyword">return</span> all_datasets
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">tokenize_function</span>(examples, tokenizer, text_column=<span class="string">"text"</span>):
<span class="string">"""Tokenize texts with truncation and padding."""</span>
<span class="keyword">return</span> tokenizer(
examples[text_column],
truncation=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
max_length=<span class="number">512</span>,
return_overflowing_tokens=<span class="keyword">False</span>,
return_length=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
)
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">prepare_pretraining_data</span>(
tokenizer_name_or_path=<span class="string">"gpt2"</span>,
output_dir=<span class="string">"./data/pretrain"</span>,
context_length=<span class="number">512</span>,
num_proc=<span class="number">4</span>
):
<span class="string">"""
Prepare concatenated pretraining data.
Groups texts into context-length chunks for efficient training.
"""</span>
os.makedirs(output_dir, exist_ok=<span class="keyword">True</span>)
<span class="comment"># Load tokenizer (we'll train our own later, use GPT-2 for now)</span>
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_name_or_path)
<span class="keyword">if</span> tokenizer.pad_token <span class="keyword">is</span> <span class="keyword">None</span>:
tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
print(<span class="string">"Loading datasets..."</span>)
<span class="comment"># For initial prep, use a single reliable dataset</span>
ds = load_dataset(<span class="string">"openwebtext"</span>, streaming=<span class="keyword">True</span>, split=<span class="string">"train"</span>)
ds = ds.take(<span class="number">5_000_000</span>) <span class="comment"># ~2.5B tokens worth</span>
<span class="comment"># Convert streaming to in-memory for processing</span>
print(<span class="string">"Converting to in-memory dataset..."</span>)
texts = []
<span class="keyword">for</span> i, example <span class="keyword">in</span> enumerate(ds):
texts.append(example[<span class="string">"text"</span>])
<span class="keyword">if</span> i % <span class="number">100000</span> == <span class="number">0</span>:
print(<span class="string">f" Processed {i} examples..."</span>)
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> Dataset
ds = Dataset.from_dict({<span class="string">"text"</span>: texts})
<span class="comment"># Tokenize</span>
print(<span class="string">"Tokenizing..."</span>)
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">tokenize_batch</span>(batch):
<span class="keyword">return</span> tokenizer(batch[<span class="string">"text"</span>], truncation=<span class="keyword">True</span>, max_length=context_length)
tokenized = ds.map(tokenize_batch, batched=<span class="keyword">True</span>, num_proc=num_proc, remove_columns=ds.column_names)
<span class="comment"># Concatenate into chunks of exactly context_length</span>
print(<span class="string">"Grouping into chunks..."</span>)
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">group_texts</span>(examples):
concatenated = {k: sum(examples[k], []) <span class="keyword">for</span> k <span class="keyword">in</span> examples.keys()}
total_length = len(concatenated[list(examples.keys())[0]])
<span class="comment"># Drop remainder</span>
total_length = (total_length // context_length) * context_length
result = {}
<span class="keyword">for</span> k, t <span class="keyword">in</span> concatenated.items():
result[k] = [t[i:i+context_length] <span class="keyword">for</span> i <span class="keyword">in</span> range(<span class="number">0</span>, total_length, context_length)]
result[<span class="string">"labels"</span>] = result[<span class="string">"input_ids"</span>].copy()
<span class="keyword">return</span> result
lm_dataset = tokenized.map(group_texts, batched=<span class="keyword">True</span>, num_proc=num_proc)
<span class="comment"># Split train/val</span>
lm_dataset = lm_dataset.train_test_split(test_size=<span class="number">0.001</span>, seed=<span class="variable">SEED</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"Train samples: {len(lm_dataset['train'])}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"Validation samples: {len(lm_dataset['test'])}"</span>)
lm_dataset.save_to_disk(output_dir)
print(<span class="string">f"Saved to {output_dir}"</span>)
<span class="keyword">return</span> lm_dataset
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
prepare_pretraining_data()
</pre>
</div>
<!-- SECTION 4: TOKENIZER -->
<h2 id="tokenizer">4. Train Custom Tokenizer</h2>
<div class="note">
A custom tokenizer trained on your domain data will be more efficient than using GPT-2's. We use <strong>Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE)</strong> with the <code>tokenizers</code> library.
</div>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">4</span>
<strong>Train tokenizer on your corpus:</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/train_tokenizer.py</span>
<span class="keyword">import</span> os
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_dataset
<span class="keyword">from</span> tokenizers <span class="keyword">import</span> Tokenizer, models, pre_tokenizers, trainers, processors
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> PreTrainedTokenizerFast
<span class="variable">VOCAB_SIZE</span> = <span class="number">32000</span>
<span class="variable">CONTEXT_LENGTH</span> = <span class="number">512</span>
<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span> = <span class="string">"./tokenizer"</span>
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">train_tokenizer</span>():
os.makedirs(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>, exist_ok=<span class="keyword">True</span>)
print(<span class="string">"Loading training corpus for tokenizer..."</span>)
<span class="comment"># Use a sample of web text for training</span>
ds = load_dataset(<span class="string">"openwebtext"</span>, streaming=<span class="keyword">True</span>, split=<span class="string">"train"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Collect ~100MB of text for tokenizer training</span>
texts = []
total_chars = <span class="number">0</span>
target_chars = <span class="number">100_000_000</span> <span class="comment"># 100MB</span>
<span class="keyword">for</span> example <span class="keyword">in</span> ds:
text = example[<span class="string">"text"</span>]
texts.append(text)
total_chars += len(text)
<span class="keyword">if</span> total_chars >= target_chars:
<span class="keyword">break</span>
<span class="keyword">if</span> len(texts) % <span class="number">10000</span> == <span class="number">0</span>:
print(<span class="string">f"Collected {len(texts)} texts, {total_chars/1e6:.1f}MB..."</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"Training tokenizer on {len(texts)} documents ({total_chars/1e6:.1f}MB)..."</span>)
<span class="comment"># Initialize BPE tokenizer</span>
tokenizer = Tokenizer(models.BPE())
<span class="comment"># Use ByteLevel pre-tokenizer (like GPT-2) - handles all Unicode</span>
tokenizer.pre_tokenizer = pre_tokenizers.ByteLevel(add_prefix_space=<span class="keyword">False</span>)
<span class="comment"># Trainer with special tokens</span>
trainer = trainers.BpeTrainer(
vocab_size=<span class="variable">VOCAB_SIZE</span>,
special_tokens=[
<span class="string">"&lt;|endoftext|&gt;"</span>, <span class="comment"># EOS / PAD</span>
<span class="string">"&lt;|bos|&gt;"</span>, <span class="comment"># Beginning of sequence</span>
<span class="string">"&lt;|unk|&gt;"</span>, <span class="comment"># Unknown token</span>
<span class="string">"&lt;|pad|&gt;"</span>, <span class="comment"># Padding</span>
<span class="string">"&lt;|mask|&gt;"</span>, <span class="comment"># Mask (for potential MLM use)</span>
],
min_frequency=<span class="number">2</span>,
show_progress=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
)
<span class="comment"># Train</span>
tokenizer.train_from_iterator(texts, trainer=trainer, length=len(texts))
<span class="comment"># Add post-processor for template processing</span>
tokenizer.post_processor = processors.ByteLevel(trim_offsets=<span class="keyword">False</span>)
<span class="comment"># Enable padding and truncation</span>
tokenizer.enable_padding(
pad_id=tokenizer.token_to_id(<span class="string">"&lt;|pad|&gt;"</span>),
pad_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|pad|&gt;"</span>,
length=<span class="variable">CONTEXT_LENGTH</span>
)
tokenizer.enable_truncation(max_length=<span class="variable">CONTEXT_LENGTH</span>)
<span class="comment"># Save raw tokenizer</span>
tokenizer_path = os.path.join(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>, <span class="string">"tokenizer.json"</span>)
tokenizer.save(tokenizer_path)
<span class="comment"># Wrap as HuggingFace tokenizer</span>
hf_tokenizer = PreTrainedTokenizerFast(
tokenizer_object=tokenizer,
bos_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|bos|&gt;"</span>,
eos_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|endoftext|&gt;"</span>,
unk_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|unk|&gt;"</span>,
pad_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|pad|&gt;"</span>,
mask_token=<span class="string">"&lt;|mask|&gt;"</span>,
)
<span class="comment"># Save in HF format</span>
hf_tokenizer.save_pretrained(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"\nβœ… Tokenizer saved to {OUTPUT_DIR}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"Vocab size: {len(hf_tokenizer)}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"Model max length: {hf_tokenizer.model_max_length}"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Test</span>
test_text = <span class="string">"Hello world! This is a test of the custom tokenizer."</span>
encoded = hf_tokenizer.encode(test_text)
decoded = hf_tokenizer.decode(encoded)
print(<span class="string">f"\nTest encode/decode:"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Original: {test_text}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Decoded: {decoded}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Tokens: {len(encoded)}"</span>)
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
train_tokenizer()
</pre>
</div>
<div class="note success">
After training, your tokenizer will be saved in <code>./tokenizer/</code> with vocab size 32,000. This is more efficient than GPT-2's 50,257 vocab for general English text.
</div>
<!-- SECTION 5: MODEL CONFIG -->
<h2 id="model">5. Model Configuration</h2>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">5</span>
<strong>Define model architecture (~100M parameters):</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/create_model.py</span>
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> GPT2Config, GPT2LMHeadModel, AutoTokenizer
<span class="keyword">import</span> os
<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span> = <span class="string">"./models/llm-100m"</span>
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">create_model_config</span>():
<span class="string">"""
Create a ~100M parameter GPT-style model.
Architecture: 12 layers, 768 hidden, 12 heads, 3072 FFN
"""</span>
config = GPT2Config(
<span class="comment"># Core architecture</span>
vocab_size=<span class="number">32000</span>, <span class="comment"># Match your tokenizer</span>
n_positions=<span class="number">512</span>, <span class="comment"># Max context length</span>
n_embd=<span class="number">768</span>, <span class="comment"># Hidden dimension</span>
n_layer=<span class="number">12</span>, <span class="comment"># Transformer layers</span>
n_head=<span class="number">12</span>, <span class="comment"># Attention heads</span>
<span class="comment"># FFN intermediate size (4Γ— hidden = 3072)</span>
n_inner=<span class="number">3072</span>,
<span class="comment"># Activation and normalization</span>
activation_function=<span class="string">"gelu_new"</span>,
layer_norm_eps=<span class="number">1e-5</span>,
<span class="comment"># Dropout (0.1 for training, 0 for inference)</span>
resid_pdrop=<span class="number">0.1</span>,
embd_pdrop=<span class="number">0.1</span>,
attn_pdrop=<span class="number">0.1</span>,
<span class="comment"># Initialization</span>
initializer_range=<span class="number">0.02</span>,
<span class="comment"># Tie embeddings to output (saves params, often better)</span>
tie_word_embeddings=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
<span class="comment"># For gradient checkpointing compatibility</span>
use_cache=<span class="keyword">False</span>,
)
<span class="keyword">return</span> config
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">create_model</span>():
os.makedirs(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>, exist_ok=<span class="keyword">True</span>)
<span class="comment"># Load tokenizer</span>
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(<span class="string">"./tokenizer"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Create config</span>
config = create_model_config()
<span class="comment"># Initialize model from config</span>
model = GPT2LMHeadModel(config)
<span class="comment"># Resize embeddings to match tokenizer (in case of mismatch)</span>
model.resize_token_embeddings(len(tokenizer))
<span class="comment"># Count parameters</span>
total_params = sum(p.numel() <span class="keyword">for</span> p <span class="keyword">in</span> model.parameters())
trainable_params = sum(p.numel() <span class="keyword">for</span> p <span class="keyword">in</span> model.parameters() <span class="keyword">if</span> p.requires_grad)
print(<span class="string">f"βœ… Model created!"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Total parameters: {total_params:,} ({total_params/1e6:.1f}M)"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Trainable: {trainable_params:,}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Layers: {config.n_layer}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Hidden: {config.n_embd}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Heads: {config.n_head}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Context: {config.n_positions}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f" Vocab: {config.vocab_size}"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Save</span>
model.save_pretrained(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(<span class="variable">OUTPUT_DIR</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"\nπŸ’Ύ Saved to {OUTPUT_DIR}"</span>)
<span class="keyword">return</span> model, tokenizer
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
create_model()
</pre>
</div>
<div class="note">
<strong>Expected output:</strong> ~100M parameters. With tied embeddings, this is efficient for a 12-layer model.
</div>
<!-- SECTION 6: TRAINING -->
<h2 id="training">6. Training Script</h2>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">6</span>
<strong>Main pretraining script with optimizations:</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/pretrain.py</span>
<span class="keyword">import</span> os
<span class="keyword">import</span> torch
<span class="keyword">import</span> wandb
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> (
GPT2LMHeadModel,
AutoTokenizer,
TrainingArguments,
Trainer,
DataCollatorForLanguageModeling,
get_cosine_schedule_with_warmup,
)
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_from_disk
<span class="keyword">from</span> accelerate <span class="keyword">import</span> Accelerator
<span class="comment"># ==================== CONFIGURATION ====================</span>
<span class="variable">CONFIG</span> = {
<span class="string">"model_path"</span>: <span class="string">"./models/llm-100m"</span>,
<span class="string">"data_path"</span>: <span class="string">"./data/pretrain"</span>,
<span class="string">"output_dir"</span>: <span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>,
<span class="comment"># Training hyperparameters</span>
<span class="string">"batch_size"</span>: <span class="number">16</span>, <span class="comment"># Per device (adjust based on GPU memory)</span>
<span class="string">"gradient_accumulation"</span>: <span class="number">4</span>, <span class="comment"># Effective batch = 16 Γ— 4 = 64</span>
<span class="string">"learning_rate"</span>: <span class="number">5e-4</span>,
<span class="string">"weight_decay"</span>: <span class="number">0.01</span>,
<span class="string">"warmup_steps"</span>: <span class="number">1000</span>,
<span class="string">"max_steps"</span>: <span class="number">50_000</span>, <span class="comment"># ~3-4 epochs on 5B tokens</span>
<span class="string">"max_grad_norm"</span>: <span class="number">1.0</span>,
<span class="comment"># Optimization</span>
<span class="string">"fp16"</span>: <span class="keyword">False</span>, <span class="comment"># Use bf16 if available (RTX 4090, A100)</span>
<span class="string">"bf16"</span>: <span class="keyword">True</span>, <span class="comment"># Better than fp16 on Ampere+ GPUs</span>
<span class="string">"gradient_checkpointing"</span>: <span class="keyword">True</span>, <span class="comment"># Trade compute for memory</span>
<span class="comment"># Logging & Checkpointing</span>
<span class="string">"logging_steps"</span>: <span class="number">100</span>,
<span class="string">"eval_steps"</span>: <span class="number">1000</span>,
<span class="string">"save_steps"</span>: <span class="number">5000</span>,
<span class="string">"save_total_limit"</span>: <span class="number">3</span>,
<span class="comment"># Other</span>
<span class="string">"seed"</span>: <span class="number">42</span>,
<span class="string">"dataloader_num_workers"</span>: <span class="number">4</span>,
}
<span class="comment"># ==================== TRAINING SETUP ====================</span>
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">setup_training</span>():
<span class="comment"># Initialize wandb (optional)</span>
wandb.init(
project=<span class="string">"llm-pretraining"</span>,
name=<span class="string">"llm-100m-general"</span>,
config=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>,
)
<span class="comment"># Set seed</span>
torch.manual_seed(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"seed"</span>])
<span class="comment"># Load tokenizer and model</span>
print(<span class="string">"Loading model and tokenizer..."</span>)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"model_path"</span>])
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"model_path"</span>])
<span class="comment"># Enable gradient checkpointing for memory savings</span>
<span class="keyword">if</span> <span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"gradient_checkpointing"</span>]:
model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
model.config.use_cache = <span class="keyword">False</span> <span class="comment"># Required when using gradient checkpointing</span>
<span class="comment"># Load dataset</span>
print(<span class="string">"Loading dataset..."</span>)
<span class="keyword">if</span> os.path.exists(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"data_path"</span>]):
dataset = load_from_disk(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"data_path"</span>])
<span class="keyword">else</span>:
print(<span class="string">"Dataset not found! Run prepare_data.py first."</span>)
<span class="keyword">return</span>
<span class="comment"># Data collator for causal LM (creates labels by shifting inputs)</span>
data_collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(
tokenizer=tokenizer,
mlm=<span class="keyword">False</span>, <span class="comment"># Causal LM, not masked</span>
)
<span class="comment"># Training arguments</span>
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"output_dir"</span>],
overwrite_output_dir=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
<span class="comment"># Batch sizes</span>
per_device_train_batch_size=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"batch_size"</span>],
per_device_eval_batch_size=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"batch_size"</span>],
gradient_accumulation_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"gradient_accumulation"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Learning rate</span>
learning_rate=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"learning_rate"</span>],
weight_decay=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"weight_decay"</span>],
max_grad_norm=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"max_grad_norm"</span>],
warmup_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"warmup_steps"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Schedule</span>
lr_scheduler_type=<span class="string">"cosine"</span>,
max_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"max_steps"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Precision</span>
fp16=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"fp16"</span>],
bf16=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"bf16"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Evaluation</span>
evaluation_strategy=<span class="string">"steps"</span>,
eval_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"eval_steps"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Logging</span>
logging_strategy=<span class="string">"steps"</span>,
logging_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"logging_steps"</span>],
report_to=[<span class="string">"wandb"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Checkpointing</span>
save_strategy=<span class="string">"steps"</span>,
save_steps=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"save_steps"</span>],
save_total_limit=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"save_total_limit"</span>],
<span class="comment"># Performance</span>
dataloader_num_workers=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"dataloader_num_workers"</span>],
dataloader_pin_memory=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
remove_unused_columns=<span class="keyword">False</span>,
<span class="comment"># Hub</span>
push_to_hub=<span class="keyword">False</span>, <span class="comment"># Set True to upload checkpoints</span>
hub_model_id=<span class="keyword">None</span>,
seed=<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"seed"</span>],
)
<span class="comment"># Initialize Trainer</span>
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=dataset[<span class="string">"train"</span>],
eval_dataset=dataset[<span class="string">"test"</span>],
data_collator=data_collator,
)
<span class="comment"># Train</span>
print(<span class="string">"\nπŸš€ Starting training...\n"</span>)
trainer.train()
<span class="comment"># Save final model</span>
trainer.save_model(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"output_dir"</span>])
tokenizer.save_pretrained(<span class="variable">CONFIG</span>[<span class="string">"output_dir"</span>])
<span class="comment"># Final evaluation</span>
eval_results = trainer.evaluate()
print(<span class="string">f"\nπŸ“Š Final eval loss: {eval_results['eval_loss']:.4f}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"πŸ“Š Final perplexity: {torch.exp(torch.tensor(eval_results['eval_loss'])).item():.2f}"</span>)
wandb.finish()
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
setup_training()
</pre>
</div>
<div class="note">
<strong>Run training:</strong> <code class="command">python scripts/pretrain.py</code>
</div>
<!-- SECTION 7: OPTIMIZATION -->
<h2 id="optimization">7. Memory Optimizations for Single GPU</h2>
<div class="note warning">
If you run out of memory, use these techniques in order of impact:
</div>
<table>
<tr><th>Technique</th><th>Memory Saved</th><th>How to Enable</th></tr>
<tr><td>Gradient Checkpointing</td><td>~60%</td><td><code>model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>BF16 / FP16</td><td>~50%</td><td><code>bf16=True</code> in TrainingArguments</td></tr>
<tr><td>Gradient Accumulation</td><td>Scales effective batch</td><td><code>gradient_accumulation_steps=4+</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>Smaller Batch Size</td><td>Linear</td><td><code>per_device_train_batch_size=4</code></td></tr>
<tr><td>DeepSpeed ZeRO-2</td><td>~20%</td><td>Use DeepSpeed config (see below)</td></tr>
<tr><td>8-bit AdamW</td><td>~15%</td><td><code>pip install bitsandbytes</code>, use <code>bnb.optim.AdamW8bit</code></td></tr>
</table>
<h3>DeepSpeed Config (for aggressive memory optimization)</h3>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">json</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># ds_config.json</span>
{
<span class="string">"bf16"</span>: { <span class="string">"enabled"</span>: <span class="keyword">true</span> },
<span class="string">"zero_optimization"</span>: {
<span class="string">"stage"</span>: <span class="number">2</span>,
<span class="string">"offload_optimizer"</span>: {
<span class="string">"device"</span>: <span class="string">"cpu"</span>,
<span class="string">"pin_memory"</span>: <span class="keyword">true</span>
},
<span class="string">"allgather_partitions"</span>: <span class="keyword">true</span>,
<span class="string">"allgather_bucket_size"</span>: <span class="number">2e8</span>,
<span class="string">"overlap_comm"</span>: <span class="keyword">true</span>,
<span class="string">"reduce_scatter"</span>: <span class="keyword">true</span>,
<span class="string">"reduce_bucket_size"</span>: <span class="number">2e8</span>
},
<span class="string">"train_batch_size"</span>: <span class="string">"auto"</span>,
<span class="string">"train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu"</span>: <span class="string">"auto"</span>,
<span class="string">"gradient_accumulation_steps"</span>: <span class="string">"auto"</span>,
<span class="string">"optimizer"</span>: {
<span class="string">"type"</span>: <span class="string">"AdamW"</span>,
<span class="string">"params"</span>: {
<span class="string">"lr"</span>: <span class="number">5e-4</span>,
<span class="string">"betas"</span>: [<span class="number">0.9</span>, <span class="number">0.999</span>],
<span class="string">"eps"</span>: <span class="number">1e-8</span>,
<span class="string">"weight_decay"</span>: <span class="number">0.01</span>
}
},
<span class="string">"scheduler"</span>: {
<span class="string">"type"</span>: <span class="string">"WarmupLR"</span>,
<span class="string">"params"</span>: { <span class="string">"warmup_min_lr"</span>: <span class="number">0</span>, <span class="string">"warmup_max_lr"</span>: <span class="number">5e-4</span>, <span class="string">"warmup_num_steps"</span>: <span class="number">1000</span> }
}
}
</pre>
</div>
<div class="note">
Run with DeepSpeed: <code class="command">deepspeed scripts/pretrain.py --deepspeed ds_config.json</code>
</div>
<!-- SECTION 8: EVALUATION -->
<h2 id="evaluation">8. Evaluation & Benchmarking</h2>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">7</span>
<strong>Evaluate your trained model:</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/evaluate.py</span>
<span class="keyword">import</span> torch
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> GPT2LMHeadModel, AutoTokenizer
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_dataset
<span class="keyword">import</span> math
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">evaluate_perplexity</span>(model_path=<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>):
<span class="string">"""Calculate perplexity on validation set."""</span>
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(model_path)
model.eval()
<span class="comment"># Load a small validation set</span>
ds = load_dataset(<span class="string">"wikitext"</span>, <span class="string">"wikitext-2-raw-v1"</span>, split=<span class="string">"validation"</span>)
encodings = tokenizer(<span class="string">"\n\n"</span>.join(ds[<span class="string">"text"</span>]), return_tensors=<span class="string">"pt"</span>)
max_length = <span class="number">512</span>
stride = <span class="number">512</span>
seq_len = encodings.input_ids.size(<span class="number">1</span>)
nlls = []
prev_end_loc = <span class="number">0</span>
<span class="keyword">for</span> begin_loc <span class="keyword">in</span> range(<span class="number">0</span>, seq_len, stride):
end_loc = min(begin_loc + max_length, seq_len)
trg_len = end_loc - prev_end_loc
input_ids = encodings.input_ids[:, begin_loc:end_loc]
target_ids = input_ids.clone()
target_ids[:, :-trg_len] = -<span class="number">100</span>
<span class="keyword">with</span> torch.no_grad():
outputs = model(input_ids, labels=target_ids)
neg_log_likelihood = outputs.loss * trg_len
nlls.append(neg_log_likelihood)
prev_end_loc = end_loc
<span class="keyword">if</span> end_loc == seq_len:
<span class="keyword">break</span>
ppl = torch.exp(torch.stack(nlls).sum() / end_loc)
print(<span class="string">f"Perplexity: {ppl.item():.2f}"</span>)
<span class="keyword">return</span> ppl.item()
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">generate_samples</span>(model_path=<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>, prompts=<span class="keyword">None</span>):
<span class="string">"""Generate text samples to qualitatively evaluate."""</span>
<span class="keyword">if</span> prompts <span class="keyword">is</span> <span class="keyword">None</span>:
prompts = [
<span class="string">"The future of artificial intelligence is"</span>,
<span class="string">"Once upon a time in a distant galaxy"</span>,
<span class="string">"The key to happiness lies in"</span>,
<span class="string">"In the field of machine learning,"</span>,
<span class="string">"The quick brown fox"</span>,
]
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_path)
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained(model_path)
model.eval()
device = <span class="string">"cuda"</span> <span class="keyword">if</span> torch.cuda.is_available() <span class="keyword">else</span> <span class="string">"cpu"</span>
model = model.to(device)
print(<span class="string">"="</span>*<span class="number">60</span>)
<span class="keyword">for</span> prompt <span class="keyword">in</span> prompts:
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors=<span class="string">"pt"</span>).to(device)
<span class="keyword">with</span> torch.no_grad():
outputs = model.generate(
**inputs,
max_new_tokens=<span class="number">100</span>,
do_sample=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
temperature=<span class="number">0.8</span>,
top_k=<span class="number">50</span>,
top_p=<span class="number">0.95</span>,
num_return_sequences=<span class="number">1</span>,
pad_token_id=tokenizer.eos_token_id,
)
generated = tokenizer.decode(outputs[<span class="number">0</span>], skip_special_tokens=<span class="keyword">True</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"\nπŸ“ Prompt: {prompt}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">f"πŸ€– Output: {generated}"</span>)
print(<span class="string">"-"</span>*<span class="number">60</span>)
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
print(<span class="string">"Evaluating perplexity..."</span>)
evaluate_perplexity()
print(<span class="string">"\nGenerating samples..."</span>)
generate_samples()
</pre>
</div>
<!-- SECTION 9: INFERENCE -->
<h2 id="inference">9. Inference & Text Generation</h2>
<div class="step">
<span class="step-number">8</span>
<strong>Simple inference script:</strong>
</div>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/generate.py</span>
<span class="keyword">import</span> torch
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> pipeline
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">create_generator</span>(model_path=<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>):
<span class="string">"""Create a text generation pipeline."""</span>
device = <span class="string">"cuda"</span> <span class="keyword">if</span> torch.cuda.is_available() <span class="keyword">else</span> <span class="string">"cpu"</span>
generator = pipeline(
<span class="string">"text-generation"</span>,
model=model_path,
tokenizer=model_path,
device=device,
torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 <span class="keyword">if</span> device == <span class="string">"cuda"</span> <span class="keyword">else</span> torch.float32,
)
<span class="keyword">return</span> generator
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">chat_loop</span>():
<span class="string">"""Interactive text generation."""</span>
print(<span class="string">"Loading model..."</span>)
generator = create_generator()
print(<span class="string">"\nπŸ€– LLM Ready! Type your prompt (or 'quit' to exit)\n"</span>)
<span class="keyword">while</span> <span class="keyword">True</span>:
prompt = input(<span class="string">"You: "</span>).strip()
<span class="keyword">if</span> prompt.lower() <span class="keyword">in</span> [<span class="string">"quit"</span>, <span class="string">"exit"</span>, <span class="string">"q"</span>]:
<span class="keyword">break</span>
<span class="keyword">if</span> <span class="keyword">not</span> prompt:
<span class="keyword">continue</span>
<span class="comment"># Generate</span>
outputs = generator(
prompt,
max_new_tokens=<span class="number">150</span>,
do_sample=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
temperature=<span class="number">0.8</span>,
top_p=<span class="number">0.92</span>,
top_k=<span class="number">50</span>,
repetition_penalty=<span class="number">1.1</span>,
pad_token_id=generator.tokenizer.eos_token_id,
)
generated_text = outputs[<span class="number">0</span>][<span class="string">"generated_text"</span>]
response = generated_text[len(prompt):].strip()
print(<span class="string">f"\nπŸ€– Bot: {response}\n"</span>)
<span class="keyword">if</span> __name__ == <span class="string">"__main__"</span>:
chat_loop()
</pre>
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<!-- SECTION 10: ALIGNMENT -->
<h2 id="alignment">10. Optional: SFT / DPO Alignment</h2>
<div class="note success">
After pretraining, align your model with instruction-following data using <strong>TRL</strong>.
</div>
<h3>Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)</h3>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/sft_train.py</span>
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TrainingArguments
<span class="keyword">from</span> trl <span class="keyword">import</span> SFTTrainer, DataCollatorForCompletionOnlyLM
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_dataset
<span class="comment"># Load pretrained model</span>
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-trained"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Load instruction dataset (e.g., Alpaca, Dolly, OpenAssistant)</span>
dataset = load_dataset(<span class="string">"tatsu-lab/alpaca"</span>, split=<span class="string">"train"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Format: "### Instruction:\n{instruction}\n\n### Response:\n{output}"</span>
<span class="keyword">def</span> <span class="function">format_prompt</span>(example):
<span class="keyword">if</span> example[<span class="string">"input"</span>]:
prompt = <span class="string">f"### Instruction:\n{example['instruction']}\n\n### Input:\n{example['input']}\n\n### Response:\n{example['output']}"</span>
<span class="keyword">else</span>:
prompt = <span class="string">f"### Instruction:\n{example['instruction']}\n\n### Response:\n{example['output']}"</span>
<span class="keyword">return</span> {<span class="string">"text"</span>: prompt}
dataset = dataset.map(format_prompt)
<span class="comment"># Train with SFTTrainer</span>
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir=<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-sft"</span>,
num_train_epochs=<span class="number">3</span>,
per_device_train_batch_size=<span class="number">8</span>,
learning_rate=<span class="number">2e-5</span>,
fp16=<span class="keyword">True</span>,
logging_steps=<span class="number">10</span>,
save_strategy=<span class="string">"epoch"</span>,
)
trainer = SFTTrainer(
model=model,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
train_dataset=dataset,
args=training_args,
dataset_text_field=<span class="string">"text"</span>,
max_seq_length=<span class="number">512</span>,
)
trainer.train()
trainer.save_model(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-sft"</span>)
</pre>
</div>
<h3>Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)</h3>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">python</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># scripts/dpo_train.py</span>
<span class="keyword">from</span> transformers <span class="keyword">import</span> AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
<span class="keyword">from</span> trl <span class="keyword">import</span> DPOTrainer, DPOConfig
<span class="keyword">from</span> datasets <span class="keyword">import</span> load_dataset
<span class="comment"># Load SFT model as base</span>
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-sft"</span>)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-sft"</span>)
<span class="comment"># Load preference dataset (e.g., Anthropic HH, SHP)</span>
dataset = load_dataset(<span class="string">"trl-lib/ultrafeedback_binarized"</span>, split=<span class="string">"train"</span>)
<span class="comment"># DPO training</span>
training_args = DPOConfig(
output_dir=<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-dpo"</span>,
num_train_epochs=<span class="number">1</span>,
per_device_train_batch_size=<span class="number">4</span>,
learning_rate=<span class="number">1e-6</span>,
beta=<span class="number">0.1</span>, <span class="comment"># DPO temperature parameter</span>
logging_steps=<span class="number">10</span>,
)
trainer = DPOTrainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=dataset,
tokenizer=tokenizer,
)
trainer.train()
trainer.save_model(<span class="string">"./models/llm-100m-dpo"</span>)
</pre>
</div>
<!-- QUICK START -->
<h2>πŸš€ Quick Start Commands</h2>
<div class="code-block">
<span class="lang">bash</span>
<pre><span class="comment"># 1. Setup</span>
mkdir llm-project && cd llm-project
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
<span class="comment"># 2. Train tokenizer</span>
python scripts/train_tokenizer.py
<span class="comment"># 3. Prepare data</span>
python scripts/prepare_data.py
<span class="comment"># 4. Create model</span>
python scripts/create_model.py
<span class="comment"># 5. Pretrain!</span>
python scripts/pretrain.py
<span class="comment"># 6. Evaluate</span>
python scripts/evaluate.py
<span class="comment"># 7. Chat with your model</span>
python scripts/generate.py
<span class="comment"># 8. (Optional) Align with SFT</span>
python scripts/sft_train.py
</pre>
</div>
<div class="note success">
<strong>Expected Results:</strong> After ~50K steps on 5B tokens, you should see perplexity around <strong>15-25</strong> on WikiText-2. The model will generate coherent sentences and understand basic context.
</div>
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