---
license: other
library_name: pytorch
tags:
  - pytorch
  - gpt
  - gpt2-style
  - polish
  - tokenizer
  - byte-level-bpe
  - causal-lm
language:
  - pl
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# Slayer GPT Tokenizer Model

Teaching archive for the Slayer GPT-style Polish language-model experiment.

This repo is meant to help people replicate the workflow, not just store artifacts. It includes a runnable local GPT checkpoint, the custom tokenizer it was trained with, a later tokenizer variant, the Slayer H100 training scripts, run logs, and replication docs.

This is a raw PyTorch/custom-code checkpoint, not a Transformers-native `AutoModelForCausalLM` repository.

## Start Here

Read:

- `docs/REPLICATION_GUIDE.md` - full step-by-step replication lesson.
- `docs/TOKENIZER_NOTES.md` - tokenizer-specific teaching notes.
- `metadata/artifact_manifest.json` - exact artifact provenance and model/tokenizer metadata.

Run the saved model:

```bash
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python scripts/sample_mac.py "Polska jest" 80
```

## Inference From Hugging Face

This is a custom PyTorch checkpoint, so use the included model code instead of `AutoModelForCausalLM`.

Option 1: clone the model repo and run the bundled sampler:

```bash
git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/SlayerLab/slayer-gpt-tokenizer-model
cd slayer-gpt-tokenizer-model
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python scripts/sample_mac.py "Polska jest" 80
```

Option 2: download only the needed files via `huggingface_hub`:

```bash
pip install torch tokenizers huggingface-hub
python examples/inference_from_hf.py "Polska jest" 80
```

Minimal Python pattern:

```python
import importlib.util
import sys
import torch
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
from tokenizers import Tokenizer

repo_id = "SlayerLab/slayer-gpt-tokenizer-model"

model_py = hf_hub_download(repo_id, "scripts/model.py")
ckpt_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id, "model/ckpt.pt")
tok_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id, "tokenizers/polish_bpe_32k.json")

spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("slayer_gpt_model", model_py)
module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
sys.modules[spec.name] = module
spec.loader.exec_module(module)

ckpt = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location="cpu")
model = module.GPT(module.GPTConfig(**ckpt["model_args"]))
model.load_state_dict(ckpt["model"])
model.eval()
tok = Tokenizer.from_file(tok_path)
```

## What Is Included

- `model/ckpt.pt` - runnable nanoGPT-style checkpoint from `/Users/kacper/Local/Ventures/Slayer/gpt2-pl-mac/ckpt.pt`.
- `tokenizers/polish_bpe_32k.json` - custom byte-level BPE tokenizer paired with `model/ckpt.pt`.
- `tokenizers/rxlm_polish_bpe_65k.json` - separate later 65k custom tokenizer from RXLM/Slayer work.
- `scripts/model.py` - GPT model definition for the checkpoint.
- `scripts/sample_mac.py` - local sampler.
- `scripts/knowbench_mac.py`, `scripts/syntaxbench_mac.py` - simple probes.
- `examples/prepare_corpus.py` - reference corpus/tokenizer/shard preparation script.
- `training/` - Slayer remote nanoGPT training code and launch script.
- `logs/` and `metadata/` - run evidence.

## Key Compatibility Rule

Use this pairing:

```text
model/ckpt.pt -> tokenizers/polish_bpe_32k.json
```

Do not sample `model/ckpt.pt` with `tokenizers/rxlm_polish_bpe_65k.json`. That tokenizer is a separate later artifact.

Why this matters:

- `model/ckpt.pt` was trained with `vocab_size=32768`, so its token embedding table and output head have 32768 rows.
- `tokenizers/rxlm_polish_bpe_65k.json` has 65536 vocabulary entries and can emit token IDs that the model does not have embeddings for.
- Even if a token ID is below 32768, the two tokenizers do not guarantee that the same ID means the same text fragment.
- To use the 65k tokenizer correctly, train a separate model with a matching 65536-token vocabulary.

## Tokenizer Construction

![Byte-level BPE tokenizer pipeline](docs/assets/tokenizer_bpe_pipeline.png)

`tokenizers/polish_bpe_32k.json` is a pure statistical byte-level BPE tokenizer. It was not built as a morphological tokenizer:

- no Polish inflection rules,
- no lemmatizer,
- no morpheme dictionary,
- no hand-written segmentation grammar.

The tokenizer learns frequent byte/subword merges from the corpus. Polish-looking pieces emerge only because they were statistically useful in the training text.

## Checkpoint Summary

`model/ckpt.pt`:

- 12 layers
- 12 attention heads
- 768 embedding dimension
- 1024 token context
- 32768 vocabulary size
- about 136M state-dict parameters
- checkpoint step stored as `iter=500`

## Remote Slayer Training States

The full remote training states are not committed because each is about 3.6 GB and includes optimizer/runtime state.

Known local copies:

```text
/Users/kacper/Local/Ventures/Slayer/slayer-nanogpt/ckpt/state_step000500.pt
/Users/kacper/Local/Ventures/Slayer/slayer-nanogpt/ckpt/state_step001000.pt
/Users/kacper/Local/Ventures/Slayer/slayer-nanogpt/ckpt/state_step001500.pt
```

Known remote copies:

```text
ssh slayer:/home/ubuntu/modded-nanogpt/logs/f143baf2-dbfc-406e-b13b-a9fcc166b31b/state_step000500.pt
ssh slayer:/home/ubuntu/modded-nanogpt/logs/f143baf2-dbfc-406e-b13b-a9fcc166b31b/state_step001000.pt
ssh slayer:/home/ubuntu/modded-nanogpt/logs/f143baf2-dbfc-406e-b13b-a9fcc166b31b/state_step001500.pt
```

Fetch explicitly when needed:

```bash
mkdir -p training-states
rsync -avP slayer:/home/ubuntu/modded-nanogpt/logs/f143baf2-dbfc-406e-b13b-a9fcc166b31b/state_step001500.pt training-states/
```