# config for training GPT-2 (124M) down to very nice loss of ~2.85 on 1 node of 8X A100 40GB # launch as the following (e.g. in a screen session) and wait ~5 days: # $ torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=8 train.py config/train_gpt2.py wandb_log = True wandb_project = 'owt' wandb_run_name='gpt2-124M' # these make the total batch size be ~0.5M # 12 batch size * 1024 block size * 5 gradaccum * 8 GPUs = 491,520 batch_size = 12 block_size = 1024 gradient_accumulation_steps = 5 * 8 # this makes total number of tokens be 300B max_iters = 600000 lr_decay_iters = 600000 # eval stuff eval_interval = 1000 eval_iters = 200 log_interval = 10 # weight decay weight_decay = 1e-1