Summary of Experience Of Training a 1.7b-parameter Llama Model From Scratch, by Miles Q. Li et al.
Experience of Training a 1.7B-Parameter LLaMa Model From Scratch
by Miles Q. Li, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Shih-Chia Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents the experience of training a large language model, DMaS-LLaMa-Lite, with 1.7 billion parameters on approximately 20 billion tokens of curated data. The training trajectory is chronicled, showing how validation loss levels and downstream benchmarks reflect improvements from incoherent to fluent text. Post-training instruction tuning refines the model for contextually appropriate responses. Practical considerations include restoring optimizer states and hardware changes’ impact on stability and throughput. Performance benchmarks demonstrate high-quality data’s role in achieving competitive results with fewer training tokens. The paper aims to guide future researchers by sharing insights, training logs, checkpoints, and sample outputs. The training script is available on Github, while model checkpoints are available on Huggingface. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about how to train a big language model that can understand and generate human-like text. They share their experience of training this model, called DMaS-LLaMa-Lite, which has over 1 billion parameters. They show how the model gets better at understanding and generating text as they add more data to it. The paper also shows how they fine-tuned the model to make it better at responding to specific questions or prompts. The researchers learned some important things while training this model, like how to keep track of where they left off and how to adjust their approach when switching to a different computer. They also tested their model against other similar models to see how well it performed. The goal is to help others learn from their experience and improve the way language models are trained. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Instruction tuning » Language model » Large language model » Llama
