Welcome to Apex 1 Instruct 350M, our latest Instruct-Model based on FineWeb-Edu.

Hey there! If you're interested in our models try: https://huggingface.co/LH-Tech-AI/Apex-1.5-Instruct-350M - Apex 1.5: Improved reasoning and logic. Fixed wrong facts and hallucinations by increasing FineWeb-Edu ratio while finetuning to 4:1.

1. Model Details

  • Parameters: 353.55M
  • Layers: 24
  • Heads: 16
  • Embedding Dim: 1024
  • Context Length: 1024
  • Format: ONNX (Opset 18)

2. Trainingcode

import os
import time
import math
import pickle
from contextlib import nullcontext

import queue

import logging

import numpy as np
import torch
from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
from torch.distributed import init_process_group, destroy_process_group

from model import GPTConfig, GPT

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# default config values designed to train a gpt2 (124M) on OpenWebText
# I/O
out_dir = 'out'
eval_interval = 2000
log_interval = 1
eval_iters = 200
eval_only = False # if True, script exits right after the first eval
always_save_checkpoint = True # if True, always save a checkpoint after each eval
init_from = 'scratch' # 'scratch' or 'resume' or 'gpt2*'
# wandb logging
wandb_log = False # disabled by default
wandb_project = 'owt'
wandb_run_name = 'gpt2' # 'run' + str(time.time())
# data
dataset = 'openwebtext'
gradient_accumulation_steps = 5 * 8 # used to simulate larger batch sizes
batch_size = 12 # if gradient_accumulation_steps > 1, this is the micro-batch size
block_size = 1024
# model
n_layer = 12
n_head = 12
n_embd = 768
dropout = 0.0 # for pretraining 0 is good, for finetuning try 0.1+
bias = False # do we use bias inside LayerNorm and Linear layers?
# adamw optimizer
learning_rate = 6e-4 # max learning rate
max_iters = 600000 # total number of training iterations
weight_decay = 1e-1
beta1 = 0.9
beta2 = 0.95
grad_clip = 1.0 # clip gradients at this value, or disable if == 0.0
# learning rate decay settings
decay_lr = True # whether to decay the learning rate
warmup_iters = 2000 # how many steps to warm up for
lr_decay_iters = 600000 # should be ~= max_iters per Chinchilla
min_lr = 6e-5 # minimum learning rate, should be ~= learning_rate/10 per Chinchilla
# DDP settings
backend = 'nccl' # 'nccl', 'gloo', etc.
# system
device = 'cuda' # examples: 'cpu', 'cuda', 'cuda:0', 'cuda:1' etc., or try 'mps' on macbooks
dtype = 'bfloat16' if torch.cuda.is_available() and torch.cuda.is_bf16_supported() else 'float16' # 'float32', 'bfloat16', or 'float16', the latter will auto implement a GradScaler
compile = True # use PyTorch 2.0 to compile the model to be faster
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
config_keys = [k for k,v in globals().items() if not k.startswith('_') and isinstance(v, (int, float, bool, str))]
exec(open('configurator.py').read()) # overrides from command line or config file
config = {k: globals()[k] for k in config_keys} # will be useful for logging
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

logger = None
db_conn = None

logging.basicConfig(
    level=logging.INFO,
    format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s',
    handlers=[logging.StreamHandler()]
)
logger = logging.getLogger("Train")

# various inits, derived attributes, I/O setup
ddp = int(os.environ.get('RANK', -1)) != -1 # is this a ddp run?
if ddp:
    init_process_group(backend=backend)
    ddp_rank = int(os.environ['RANK'])
    ddp_local_rank = int(os.environ['LOCAL_RANK'])
    ddp_world_size = int(os.environ['WORLD_SIZE'])
    device = f'cuda:{ddp_local_rank}'
    torch.cuda.set_device(device)
    master_process = ddp_rank == 0 # this process will do logging, checkpointing etc.
    seed_offset = ddp_rank # each process gets a different seed
    # world_size number of processes will be training simultaneously, so we can scale
    # down the desired gradient accumulation iterations per process proportionally
    assert gradient_accumulation_steps % ddp_world_size == 0
    gradient_accumulation_steps //= ddp_world_size
else:
    # if not ddp, we are running on a single gpu, and one process
    master_process = True
    seed_offset = 0
    ddp_world_size = 1
tokens_per_iter = gradient_accumulation_steps * ddp_world_size * batch_size * block_size
logger.info(f"tokens per iteration will be: {tokens_per_iter:,}")


if master_process:
    os.makedirs(out_dir, exist_ok=True)
    log_dir = "/home/350m_fineweb"
    os.makedirs(log_dir, exist_ok=True)
    log_file = os.path.join(log_dir, "training.log")

    file_handler = logging.FileHandler(log_file)
    file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s'))
    logger.addHandler(file_handler)
    
    logger.info(f"Logging in Datei gestartet: {log_file}")

torch.manual_seed(1337 + seed_offset)
torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True # allow tf32 on matmul
torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True # allow tf32 on cudnn
device_type = 'cuda' if 'cuda' in device else 'cpu' # for later use in torch.autocast
# note: float16 data type will automatically use a GradScaler
ptdtype = {'float32': torch.float32, 'bfloat16': torch.bfloat16, 'float16': torch.float16}[dtype]
ctx = nullcontext() if device_type == 'cpu' else torch.amp.autocast(device_type=device_type, dtype=ptdtype)

# poor man's data loader

data_handles = {
    split: {
        name: np.memmap(os.path.join(path, f'{split}.bin'), dtype=np.uint16, mode='r')
        for name, path in data_sources.items()
    }
    for split in ['train', 'val']
}

def get_batch(split):
    source = 'fineweb' 
    data = data_handles[split][source]
    
    ix = torch.randint(len(data) - block_size, (batch_size,))
    x = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy((data[i:i+block_size]).astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    y = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy((data[i+1:i+1+block_size]).astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    
    if device_type == 'cuda':
        # pin arrays x,y, which allows us to move them to GPU asynchronously (non_blocking=True)
        x, y = x.pin_memory().to(device, non_blocking=True), y.pin_memory().to(device, non_blocking=True)
    else:
        x, y = x.to(device), y.to(device)
    return x, y

# init these up here, can override if init_from='resume' (i.e. from a checkpoint)
iter_num = 0
best_val_loss = 1e9

# attempt to derive vocab_size from the dataset
meta_path = os.path.join(data_sources['fineweb'], 'meta.pkl')
meta_vocab_size = None
if os.path.exists(meta_path):
    with open(meta_path, 'rb') as f:
        meta = pickle.load(f)
    meta_vocab_size = meta['vocab_size']
    logger.info(f"found vocab_size = {meta_vocab_size} (inside {meta_path})")

# model init
model_args = dict(n_layer=n_layer, n_head=n_head, n_embd=n_embd, block_size=block_size,
                  bias=bias, vocab_size=None, dropout=dropout) # start with model_args from command line
if init_from == 'scratch':
    # init a new model from scratch
    logger.info("Initializing a new model from scratch")
    # determine the vocab size we'll use for from-scratch training
    if meta_vocab_size is None:
        logger.info("defaulting to vocab_size of GPT-2 to 50304 (50257 rounded up for efficiency)")
    model_args['vocab_size'] = meta_vocab_size if meta_vocab_size is not None else 50304
    gptconf = GPTConfig(**model_args)
    model = GPT(gptconf)
elif init_from == 'resume':
    logger.info(f"Resuming training from {out_dir}")
    # resume training from a checkpoint.
    ckpt_path = os.path.join(out_dir, sorted(
        [f for f in os.listdir(out_dir) if f.startswith("ckpt_") and f.endswith(".pt")]
    )[-1])
    checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
    checkpoint_model_args = checkpoint['model_args']
    # force these config attributes to be equal otherwise we can't even resume training
    # the rest of the attributes (e.g. dropout) can stay as desired from command line
    for k in ['n_layer', 'n_head', 'n_embd', 'block_size', 'bias', 'vocab_size']:
        model_args[k] = checkpoint_model_args[k]
    # create the model
    gptconf = GPTConfig(**model_args)
    model = GPT(gptconf)
    state_dict = checkpoint['model']
    # fix the keys of the state dictionary :(
    # honestly no idea how checkpoints sometimes get this prefix, have to debug more
    unwanted_prefix = '_orig_mod.'
    for k,v in list(state_dict.items()):
        if k.startswith(unwanted_prefix):
            state_dict[k[len(unwanted_prefix):]] = state_dict.pop(k)
    model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
    iter_num = checkpoint['iter_num']
    best_val_loss = checkpoint['best_val_loss']
elif init_from.startswith('gpt2'):
    logger.info(f"Initializing from OpenAI GPT-2 weights: {init_from}")
    # initialize from OpenAI GPT-2 weights
    override_args = dict(dropout=dropout)
    model = GPT.from_pretrained(init_from, override_args)
    # read off the created config params, so we can store them into checkpoint correctly
    for k in ['n_layer', 'n_head', 'n_embd', 'block_size', 'bias', 'vocab_size']:
        model_args[k] = getattr(model.config, k)
# crop down the model block size if desired, using model surgery
if block_size < model.config.block_size:
    model.crop_block_size(block_size)
    model_args['block_size'] = block_size # so that the checkpoint will have the right value
model.to(device)

# initialize a GradScaler. If enabled=False scaler is a no-op
scaler = torch.cuda.amp.GradScaler(enabled=(dtype == 'float16'))

# optimizer
optimizer = model.configure_optimizers(weight_decay, learning_rate, (beta1, beta2), device_type)
if init_from == 'resume':
    optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoint['optimizer'])
checkpoint = None # free up memory

# compile the model
if compile:
    logger.info("compiling the model... (takes a ~minute)")
    unoptimized_model = model
    model = torch.compile(model) # requires PyTorch 2.0

# wrap model into DDP container
if ddp:
    model = DDP(model, device_ids=[ddp_local_rank])

# helps estimate an arbitrarily accurate loss over either split using many batches
@torch.no_grad()
def estimate_loss():
    out = {}
    model.eval()
    for split in ['train', 'val']:
        losses = torch.zeros(eval_iters)
        for k in range(eval_iters):
            X, Y = get_batch(split) 
            with ctx:
                logits, loss = model(X, Y)
            losses[k] = loss.item()
        out[split] = losses.mean()
    model.train()
    return out

# learning rate decay scheduler (cosine with warmup)
def get_lr(it):
    # 1) linear warmup for warmup_iters steps
    if it < warmup_iters:
        return learning_rate * (it + 1) / (warmup_iters + 1)
    # 2) if it > lr_decay_iters, return min learning rate
    if it > lr_decay_iters:
        return min_lr
    # 3) in between, use cosine decay down to min learning rate
    decay_ratio = (it - warmup_iters) / (lr_decay_iters - warmup_iters)
    assert 0 <= decay_ratio <= 1
    coeff = 0.5 * (1.0 + math.cos(math.pi * decay_ratio)) # coeff ranges 0..1
    return min_lr + coeff * (learning_rate - min_lr)

# logging
if wandb_log and master_process:
    import wandb
    wandb.init(project=wandb_project, name=wandb_run_name, config=config)

# training loop
X, Y = get_batch('train') # fetch the very first batch
t0 = time.time()
local_iter_num = 0 # number of iterations in the lifetime of this process
raw_model = model.module if ddp else model # unwrap DDP container if needed
running_mfu = -1.0
while True:

    # determine and set the learning rate for this iteration
    lr = get_lr(iter_num) if decay_lr else learning_rate
    for param_group in optimizer.param_groups:
        param_group['lr'] = lr

    # evaluate the loss on train/val sets and write checkpoints
    if iter_num % eval_interval == 0 and master_process:
        losses = estimate_loss()
        logger.info(f"step {iter_num}: train loss {losses['train']:.4f}, val loss {losses['val']:.4f}")
        if wandb_log:
            wandb.log({
                "iter": iter_num,
                "train/loss": losses['train'],
                "val/loss": losses['val'],
                "lr": lr,
                "mfu": running_mfu*100, # convert to percentage
            })
        if losses['val'] < best_val_loss or always_save_checkpoint:
            best_val_loss = losses['val']
            if iter_num > 0:
                checkpoint = {
                    'model': raw_model.state_dict(),
                    'optimizer': optimizer.state_dict(),
                    'model_args': model_args,
                    'iter_num': iter_num,
                    'best_val_loss': best_val_loss,
                    'config': config,
                }
                logger.info(f"πŸ’Ύ SAVING CHECKPOINT TO {out_dir}")
                ckpt_name = f"ckpt_{iter_num:07d}.pt"
                ckpt_path = os.path.join(out_dir, ckpt_name)
                torch.save(checkpoint, ckpt_path)
    if iter_num == 0 and eval_only:
        break

    # forward backward update, with optional gradient accumulation to simulate larger batch size
    # and using the GradScaler if data type is float16
    for micro_step in range(gradient_accumulation_steps):
        if ddp:
            # in DDP training we only need to sync gradients at the last micro step.
            # the official way to do this is with model.no_sync() context manager, but
            # I really dislike that this bloats the code and forces us to repeat code
            # looking at the source of that context manager, it just toggles this variable
            model.require_backward_grad_sync = (micro_step == gradient_accumulation_steps - 1)
        with ctx:
            logits, loss = model(X, Y)
            loss = loss / gradient_accumulation_steps # scale the loss to account for gradient accumulation
        # immediately async prefetch next batch while model is doing the forward pass on the GPU
        X, Y = get_batch('train')
        # backward pass, with gradient scaling if training in fp16
        scaler.scale(loss).backward()
    # clip the gradient
    if grad_clip != 0.0:
        scaler.unscale_(optimizer)
        torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), grad_clip)
    # step the optimizer and scaler if training in fp16
    scaler.step(optimizer)
    scaler.update()
    # flush the gradients as soon as we can, no need for this memory anymore
    optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)

    # timing and logging
    t1 = time.time()
    dt = t1 - t0
    t0 = t1
    if iter_num % log_interval == 0 and master_process:
        # get loss as float. note: this is a CPU-GPU sync point
        # scale up to undo the division above, approximating the true total loss (exact would have been a sum)
        lossf = loss.item() * gradient_accumulation_steps
        if local_iter_num >= 5: # let the training loop settle a bit
            mfu = raw_model.estimate_mfu(batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps, dt)
            running_mfu = mfu if running_mfu == -1.0 else 0.9*running_mfu + 0.1*mfu
        
        if logger:
            log_msg = f"iter {iter_num}: loss {lossf:.4f}, time {dt*1000:.2f}ms, mfu {running_mfu*100:.2f}%"
            logger.info(log_msg)


        if iter_num % 100 == 0:

            remaining_iters = max_iters - iter_num
            est_seconds = remaining_iters * dt
            days = int(est_seconds // 86400)
            hours = int((est_seconds % 86400) // 3600)
            minutes = int((est_seconds % 3600) // 60)

            logger.info(f"⏳ ETA: Resttime ca. {days}d, {hours}h, {minutes}m until iteration {max_iters}")
            logger.info("πŸ“ LIVE-SAMPLE:")

            model.eval()
            
            with torch.no_grad():
                import tiktoken
                enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")
                
                prompt = "Artificial Intelligence is "
                start_ids = enc.encode(prompt, allowed_special={""}) 
                context = torch.tensor(start_ids, dtype=torch.long, device=device).unsqueeze(0)

                generated_tokens = raw_model.generate(context, max_new_tokens=200)[0].tolist()
                
                valid_tokens = [t for t in generated_tokens if t < enc.n_vocab]
                
                try:
                    decoded_text = enc.decode(valid_tokens, errors='replace')
                    logger.info(f"\n{decoded_text}")
                except Exception as e:
                    logger.error(f"Sampling-Fehler: {e}")
            
            model.train()
            logger.info("-" * 50)
    iter_num += 1
    local_iter_num += 1

    # termination conditions
    if iter_num > max_iters:
        break

if ddp:
    destroy_process_group()

To use this code, first you'll have to clone the nanoGPT git repository from Karpathy.

Then, run:

python3 train.py \
  --dataset=fineweb-edu \
  --n_layer=24 \
  --n_head=16 \
  --n_embd=1024 \
  --block_size=1024 \
  --batch_size=4 \
  --gradient_accumulation_steps=32 \
  --learning_rate=6e-4 \
  --max_iters=60000 \
  --eval_interval=1000 \
  --eval_iters=100 \
  --log_interval=5 \
  --weight_decay=0.1 \
  --warmup_iters=2000 \
  --lr_decay_iters=60000 \
  --min_lr=6e-5 \
  --dtype=bfloat16 \
  --compile=True \
  --always_save_checkpoint=True \
  --init_from=scratch \
  --out_dir=/home/user/350m_fineweb

3. Finetuning

To finetune your model to answer your questions, run this code to prepare the finetuning data:

import os
import numpy as np
import tiktoken
from datasets import load_dataset
from tqdm import tqdm

OUTPUT_DIR = "data/alpaca_cleaned_mixed"
TOKENIZER_NAME = "gpt2" 
SEED = 1337

FINEWEB_SAMPLES = 2500 

enc = tiktoken.get_encoding(TOKENIZER_NAME)
EOS_TOKEN = "<|endoftext|>"

def format_prompt_with_mask(instruction, input_text, output):
    """
    Formatiert den Prompt und erstellt die Loss-Maske.
    Format:
    Instruction: ...
    Input: ... (optional)
    Response: ... <|endoftext|>
    """
    if input_text and input_text.strip():
        prompt_text = f"Instruction:\n{instruction}\n\nInput:\n{input_text}\n\nResponse:\n"
    else:
        prompt_text = f"Instruction:\n{instruction}\n\nResponse:\n"
    
    completion_text = f"{output}{EOS_TOKEN}"
    
    prompt_ids = enc.encode(prompt_text, allowed_special={'<|endoftext|>'})
    completion_ids = enc.encode(completion_text, allowed_special={'<|endoftext|>'})
    
    full_ids = prompt_ids + completion_ids
    
    mask = [0] * len(prompt_ids) + [1] * len(completion_ids)
    
    return full_ids, mask

def main():
    np.random.seed(SEED)
    print(f"πŸš€ Starting Prepare-Script for Apex 1 Instruct 350M...")
    print(f"πŸ“š Tokenizer: {TOKENIZER_NAME}")
    
    os.makedirs(OUTPUT_DIR, exist_ok=True)

    print("πŸ“₯ Loading 'yahma/alpaca-cleaned' (Chat-Instructions)...")
    alpaca = load_dataset("yahma/alpaca-cleaned", split='train')
    
    print(f"πŸ“₯ Loading 'HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu' (Sample-10BT) for {FINEWEB_SAMPLES} Samples...")
    fineweb = load_dataset("HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu", name="sample-10BT", split='train', streaming=True)
    
    all_tokens = []
    all_masks = []
    
    print("βš™οΈ  Processing Alpaca...")
    for ex in tqdm(alpaca, desc="Alpaca"):
        ids, mask = format_prompt_with_mask(ex['instruction'], ex['input'], ex['output'])
        all_tokens.extend(ids)
        all_masks.extend(mask)
        
    alpaca_len = len(all_tokens)
    print(f"   -> Alpaca Tokens: {alpaca_len:,}")

    print("βš™οΈ  Processing FineWeb (Anti-Forgetting)...")
    fw_iter = iter(fineweb)
    fw_count = 0
    fw_tokens_count = 0
    
    for _ in tqdm(range(FINEWEB_SAMPLES), desc="FineWeb"):
        try:
            ex = next(fw_iter)
            text = ex['text'] + EOS_TOKEN
            ids = enc.encode(text, allowed_special={EOS_TOKEN})
            
            all_tokens.extend(ids)
            all_masks.extend([1] * len(ids)) 
            
            fw_tokens_count += len(ids)
            fw_count += 1
        except StopIteration:
            break
            
    print(f"   -> FineWeb Tokens: {fw_tokens_count:,} (from {fw_count} documents)")

    total_tokens = len(all_tokens)
    print(f"\nπŸ’Ύ Saving {total_tokens:,} Tokens in '{OUTPUT_DIR}'...")
    
    token_arr = np.array(all_tokens, dtype=np.uint16)
    token_arr.tofile(os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, "train.bin"))
    
    mask_arr = np.array(all_masks, dtype=np.uint8)
    mask_arr.tofile(os.path.join(OUTPUT_DIR, "train_mask.bin"))
    
    print("\nπŸ” --- SANITY CHECK ---")
    print("I decode the first 50 tokens of the first sample, to check, if everything is okay.")
    print("Green (TRAIN) = The things the model learns. Grey (IGNORE) = The things the model only reads.")
    
    check_len = 100
    sample_ids = all_tokens[:check_len]
    sample_mask = all_masks[:check_len]
    
    decoded_parts = []
    for t_id, m_val in zip(sample_ids, sample_mask):
        token_str = enc.decode([t_id])
        if m_val == 1:
            decoded_parts.append(f"\033[92m{token_str}\033[0m")
        else:
            decoded_parts.append(f"\033[90m{token_str}\033[0m")
            
    print("".join(decoded_parts))
    print("\n(Legend: \033[90mGrey=Prompt/Ignored\033[0m, \033[Green=Response/Learned\033[0m)")
    
    if len(token_arr) != len(mask_arr):
        print("\n❌ Warning: Token and Mask Array have different lengths! Something has gone wrong!")
    else:
        print("\nβœ… Everything seems to be fine. The arrays are synchronized. You can now start the training.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Finally, run this to start the finetuning based on your prepared finetuning data:

import os
import time
import math
import torch
from model import GPTConfig, GPT

import numpy as np

out_dir = '/home/user/350m_Apex_Final'
init_from = '/home/user/350m_fineweb'
dataset = 'alpaca_cleaned_mixed'

batch_size = 4
gradient_accumulation_steps = 32
block_size = 1024
learning_rate = 2e-5
max_iters = 1500
weight_decay = 0.1
dropout = 0.1
warmup_iters = 0
min_lr = 3e-6
beta1, beta2 = 0.9, 0.95
device = 'cuda'
dtype = 'bfloat16'
compile = True
save_interval = 500

os.makedirs(out_dir, exist_ok=True)
torch.manual_seed(1337)
device_type = 'cuda' if 'cuda' in device else 'cpu'
ptdtype = {'float32': torch.float32, 'bfloat16': torch.bfloat16, 'float16': torch.float16}[dtype]
ctx = torch.amp.autocast(device_type=device_type, dtype=ptdtype)

data_dir = os.path.join('data', dataset)
train_data = np.memmap(os.path.join(data_dir, 'train.bin'), dtype=np.uint16, mode='r')
train_mask = np.memmap(os.path.join(data_dir, 'train_mask.bin'), dtype=np.uint8, mode='r')

def get_batch():
    ix = torch.randint(len(train_data) - block_size, (batch_size,))
    x = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy((train_data[i:i+block_size]).astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    y = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy((train_data[i+1:i+1+block_size]).astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    m = torch.stack([torch.from_numpy((train_mask[i+1:i+1+block_size]).astype(np.int64)) for i in ix])
    
    y[m == 0] = -100
    
    x, y = x.to(device), y.to(device)
    return x, y

print(f"πŸ“₯ Loading Pretraining-Checkpoint from {init_from}...")
ckpt_files = sorted([f for f in os.listdir(init_from) if f.endswith('.pt')])
if not ckpt_files:
    raise FileNotFoundError("No checkpoint found in init_from directory!")

ckpt_path = os.path.join(init_from, ckpt_files[-1])
checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
gptconf = GPTConfig(**checkpoint['model_args'])
model = GPT(gptconf)
state_dict = checkpoint['model']

unwanted_prefix = '_orig_mod.'
for k,v in list(state_dict.items()):
    if k.startswith(unwanted_prefix):
        state_dict[k[len(unwanted_prefix):]] = state_dict.pop(k)

model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
model.to(device)

if compile:
    print("πŸš€ Compiling Model...")
    model = torch.compile(model)

optimizer = model.configure_optimizers(weight_decay, learning_rate, (beta1, beta2), device_type)
scaler = torch.cuda.amp.GradScaler(enabled=(dtype == 'float16'))

def get_lr(it):
    if it < warmup_iters: return learning_rate * it / warmup_iters
    if it > max_iters: return min_lr
    decay_ratio = (it - warmup_iters) / (max_iters - warmup_iters)
    coeff = 0.5 * (1.0 + math.cos(math.pi * decay_ratio))
    return min_lr + coeff * (learning_rate - min_lr)

print(f"πŸ› οΈ Starting Finetuning...")
model.train()
t0 = time.time()

for iter_num in range(max_iters + 1):
    lr = get_lr(iter_num)
    for param_group in optimizer.param_groups:
        param_group['lr'] = lr

    for micro_step in range(gradient_accumulation_steps):
        X, Y = get_batch()
        with ctx:
            logits, loss = model(X, Y)
            loss = loss / gradient_accumulation_steps
        scaler.scale(loss).backward()

    scaler.unscale_(optimizer)
    torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), 1.0)
    scaler.step(optimizer)
    scaler.update()
    optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)

    if iter_num % 10 == 0:
        dt = time.time() - t0
        print(f"Iter {iter_num}: Loss {loss.item()*gradient_accumulation_steps:.4f}, Time {dt*1000:.2f}ms, LR {lr:.2e}")
        t0 = time.time()

    if iter_num > 0 and iter_num % save_interval == 0:
        checkpoint_name = f'Apex_350M_iter_{iter_num}.pt'
        save_path = os.path.join(out_dir, checkpoint_name)
        print(f"πŸ’Ύ Saving checkpoint: {checkpoint_name}")
        raw_model = model._orig_mod if compile else model
        checkpoint_data = {
            'model': raw_model.state_dict(),
            'model_args': checkpoint['model_args'],
            'iter_num': iter_num,
            'lr': lr,
        }
        torch.save(checkpoint_data, save_path)

print(f"πŸ’Ύ Finetuning done. Saving Apex 1 Instruct 350M...")
final_checkpoint = {
    'model': model.state_dict() if not compile else model._orig_mod.state_dict(),
    'model_args': checkpoint['model_args'],
    'config': checkpoint.get('config', {}),
}
torch.save(final_checkpoint, os.path.join(out_dir, 'Apex_350m_Final.pt'))
print("βœ… Apex 1 Instruct 350M saved successfully!")

4. Testing Apex 1 Instruct 350M

To test the model you trained, you can simply run this Python code:

import torch
import tiktoken
from model import GPTConfig, GPT

# --- Config ---
ckpt_path = '/home/user/350m_Apex_Final/Apex_350M_iter_1500.pt'
device = 'cuda'
enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")

print("Loading Apex 1 Instruct 350M...")
checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
gptconf = GPTConfig(**checkpoint['model_args'])
model = GPT(gptconf)

state_dict = checkpoint['model']
unwanted_prefix = '_orig_mod.'
for k,v in list(state_dict.items()):
    if k.startswith(unwanted_prefix):
        state_dict[k[len(unwanted_prefix):]] = state_dict.pop(k)

model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
model.eval()
model.to(device)
print(f"Model {ckpt_path} ready!\n")

def run_chat():
    print("--- Apex 1 Instruct 350M Chatbot (Type 'exit' to quit) ---")
    
    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ")
        if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit"]:
            break

        prompt = f"Instruction:\n{user_input}\n\nResponse:\n"
        
        x = torch.tensor(enc.encode(prompt), dtype=torch.long, device=device)[None, ...]
        
        print("Apex 1: ", end="", flush=True)
        with torch.no_grad():
            with torch.amp.autocast(device_type='cuda', dtype=torch.bfloat16):
                y = model.generate(x, max_new_tokens=500, temperature=0.65, top_k=25)
                
                full_text = enc.decode(y[0].tolist())
                
                if "Response:\n" in full_text:
                    response = full_text.split("Response:\n")[-1]
                else:
                    response = full_text
                
                response = response.split("<|endoftext|>")[0].split("Instruction:")[0].strip()
                print(response + "\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_chat()

5. Our training results

We did the pretraining on a single RTX 5060 Ti 16GB for 42,000 iterations for ~8 days. Out final val loss value was 2.8175 and our final train loss was 2.8008.

6. Thanks to...

  1. Andrej Karpathy for his nanoGPT Code and his YouTube Videos in the make-mode-series
  2. HuggingfaceTW for the Fineweb-Edu-10BT-Sample Training Dataset
  3. Yahma for the alpaca-cleaned dataset for the finetuning
  4. My dad for his support <3
  5. My GPU for training and running my new model ;-)

license: apache-2.0 datasets: - HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu language: - en pipeline_tag: question-answering

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