nanogpt

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Learn transformers from scratch.

AuthorDoanNgocCuong
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill provides a minimalist, educational implementation of the GPT architecture, allowing users to understand and experiment with transformer models from the ground up.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Educational Implementation: A clean, ~300-line Python implementation of GPT, ideal for learning.
  • Reproduce GPT-2: Train and reproduce GPT-2 (124M) on datasets like OpenWebText.
  • Custom Datasets: Easily train on your own text data.
  • Use Case: A researcher wants to understand the inner workings of a transformer model without the complexity of large frameworks. They can use this Skill to train a small GPT model on a custom text corpus and analyze its architecture and training process.

Quick Start

Train a character-level model on Shakespeare by running python train.py config/train_shakespeare_char.py.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

torchtransformersdatasetstiktokenwandb

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Name: nanogpt
Download link: https://github.com/DoanNgocCuong/continuous-training-pipeline_T3_2026/archive/main.zip#nanogpt

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