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Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work
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Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

via Hacker Newsarmanified3h ago

Built a ~9M param LLM from scratch to understand how they actually work. Vanilla transformer, 60K synthetic conversations, ~130 lines of PyTorch. Trains in 5 min on a free Colab T4. The fish thinks the meaning of life is food. Fork it and swap the personality for your own character. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655408 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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