Trained a GPT transformer from scratch on a $300 CPU — 39 minutes, 0.82M params, no GPU needed
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Trained a GPT transformer from scratch on a $300 CPU — 39 minutes, 0.82M params, no GPU needed.
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Can be trained on $300 machine Git hub repo : [https://github.com/Eamon2009/Transformer-language-model](https://github.com/Eamon2009/Transformer-language-model) **What I trained:** Parameters : 0.82M Dataset : 201K characters of children's stories Vocab size : 28 unique characters Hardware : CPU only — AMD Ryzen 5 Train time : 39 minutes Best val : 1.3145 — still improving at step 3000 **Full training log:** [ 0/3000] train=3.2961 val=3.2981 << best!
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[ 200/3000] train=2.3038 val=2.2490 << best!
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[ 400/3000] train=2.2469 val=2.1950 << best!
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[ 800/3000] train=1.9742 val=1.9103 << best!
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