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nano GPT: A tiny GPT model built from scratch in pure PyTorch.
This is a step-by-step tutorial implementation following Andrej Karpathy's
build-nanogpt approach. Every piece is explicit and commented.
"""
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.nn import functional as F
from dataclasses import dataclass
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 1: Configuration
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# We define all hyperparameters in a single dataclass so they are easy to
# tweak without hunting through the code.
@dataclass
class GPTConfig:
block_size: int = 256 # maximum sequence length (context length)
vocab_size: int = 65 # number of unique characters in our dataset
n_layer: int = 4 # number of transformer blocks
n_head: int = 4 # number of attention heads per block
n_embd: int = 256 # embedding dimension (hidden size)
dropout: float = 0.0 # dropout probability (0 for small overfit-prone runs)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 2: Causal Self-Attention
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This is the heart of the transformer. For each token we compute three
# vectors: Query, Key, and Value.
#
# Query: "What am I looking for?"
# Key: "What do I contain?"
# Value: "What information do I have?"
#
# We then compute attention scores = Q @ K.T, mask future tokens so the
# model cannot "cheat" by looking ahead, and take a weighted sum of Values.
class CausalSelfAttention(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
assert config.n_embd % config.n_head == 0, "n_embd must be divisible by n_head"
# One linear layer projects input into Q, K, V concatenated together.
# Output shape: (B, T, 3 * n_embd)
self.c_attn = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, 3 * config.n_embd)
# Output projection back to n_embd
self.c_proj = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.n_head = config.n_head
self.n_embd = config.n_embd
self.dropout = config.dropout
# Register a causal mask (lower-triangular) so we never attend to future tokens.
# We do this once at init instead of recomputing every forward pass.
self.register_buffer(
"bias",
torch.tril(torch.ones(config.block_size, config.block_size))
.view(1, 1, config.block_size, config.block_size)
)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
B, T, C = x.size() # batch, sequence length, embedding dim
# 1. Compute Q, K, V
qkv = self.c_attn(x) # (B, T, 3*C)
q, k, v = qkv.split(self.n_embd, dim=2) # each (B, T, C)
# 2. Reshape into (B, n_head, T, head_size) for multi-head attention
head_size = C // self.n_head
q = q.view(B, T, self.n_head, head_size).transpose(1, 2) # (B, nh, T, hs)
k = k.view(B, T, self.n_head, head_size).transpose(1, 2) # (B, nh, T, hs)
v = v.view(B, T, self.n_head, head_size).transpose(1, 2) # (B, nh, T, hs)
# 3. Compute attention scores: (B, nh, T, hs) @ (B, nh, hs, T) -> (B, nh, T, T)
# We scale by 1/sqrt(head_size) to keep gradients stable.
att = (q @ k.transpose(-2, -1)) * (1.0 / (head_size ** 0.5))
# 4. Apply causal mask: set future positions to -inf so softmax gives 0
att = att.masked_fill(self.bias[:, :, :T, :T] == 0, float("-inf"))
# 5. Softmax to get probability distribution over past tokens
att = F.softmax(att, dim=-1)
# 6. Weighted sum of values: (B, nh, T, T) @ (B, nh, T, hs) -> (B, nh, T, hs)
y = att @ v
# 7. Concatenate heads back together: (B, nh, T, hs) -> (B, T, nh*hs) = (B, T, C)
y = y.transpose(1, 2).contiguous().view(B, T, C)
# 8. Final output projection
y = self.c_proj(y)
return y
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 3: Feed-Forward Network (MLP)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# After attention, each token gets its own private "thinking" step through
# a simple two-layer MLP with a GELU non-linearity.
class MLP(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
# Expand by 4x (common in transformers) then project back down
self.c_fc = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, 4 * config.n_embd)
self.gelu = nn.GELU()
self.c_proj = nn.Linear(4 * config.n_embd, config.n_embd)
self.dropout = nn.Dropout(config.dropout)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
x = self.c_fc(x)
x = self.gelu(x)
x = self.c_proj(x)
x = self.dropout(x)
return x
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 4: Transformer Block
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# A block = Attention -> Add & Norm -> MLP -> Add & Norm
# We use **pre-norm**: normalize BEFORE applying attention/MLP.
# This is what modern models (GPT-2, GPT-3, Llama, etc.) use.
class Block(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
self.ln_1 = nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd)
self.attn = CausalSelfAttention(config)
self.ln_2 = nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd)
self.mlp = MLP(config)
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
# Pre-norm residual connections
x = x + self.attn(self.ln_1(x)) # attention branch
x = x + self.mlp(self.ln_2(x)) # MLP branch
return x
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Step 5: Full GPT Model
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Putting it all together:
# 1. Token embedding table (wte): maps character index -> vector
# 2. Position embedding table (wpe): maps position index -> vector
# 3. Stack of N transformer blocks
# 4. Final layer norm
# 5. Language model head: projects back to vocab_size logits
class GPT(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, config: GPTConfig):
super().__init__()
self.config = config
self.transformer = nn.ModuleDict({
"wte": nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.n_embd), # token embeddings
"wpe": nn.Embedding(config.block_size, config.n_embd), # position embeddings
"h": nn.ModuleList([Block(config) for _ in range(config.n_layer)]),
"ln_f": nn.LayerNorm(config.n_embd),
})
self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.n_embd, config.vocab_size, bias=False)
# Weight tying: share the token embedding weights with the output projection.
# This saves parameters and often improves training.
self.transformer.wte.weight = self.lm_head.weight
# Initialize weights
self.apply(self._init_weights)
def _init_weights(self, module):
if isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)
if module.bias is not None:
torch.nn.init.zeros_(module.bias)
elif isinstance(module, nn.Embedding):
torch.nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=0.02)
def forward(
self,
idx: torch.Tensor,
targets: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor | None]:
"""
idx: (B, T) integer token indices
targets:(B, T) integer targets for next-token prediction (optional)
returns: logits (B, T, vocab_size), loss (scalar or None)
"""
B, T = idx.size()
assert T <= self.config.block_size, f"Sequence length {T} exceeds block_size {self.config.block_size}"
# 1. Token + position embeddings
pos = torch.arange(0, T, dtype=torch.long, device=idx.device) # (T,)
tok_emb = self.transformer.wte(idx) # (B, T, C)
pos_emb = self.transformer.wpe(pos) # (T, C)
x = tok_emb + pos_emb # (B, T, C)
# 2. Pass through transformer blocks
for block in self.transformer.h:
x = block(x)
# 3. Final layer norm
x = self.transformer.ln_f(x)
# 4. Project to vocabulary logits
logits = self.lm_head(x) # (B, T, vocab_size)
# 5. Compute cross-entropy loss if targets are provided
loss = None
if targets is not None:
loss = F.cross_entropy(
logits.view(-1, logits.size(-1)),
targets.view(-1),
ignore_index=-1,
)
return logits, loss
def generate(
self,
idx: torch.Tensor,
max_new_tokens: int,
temperature: float = 1.0,
top_k: int | None = None,
) -> torch.Tensor:
"""
Generate new tokens autoregressively.
idx: (B, T) starting token indices
"""
for _ in range(max_new_tokens):
# Crop to block_size so we never exceed context length
idx_cond = idx if idx.size(1) <= self.config.block_size else idx[:, -self.config.block_size:]
# Forward pass
logits, _ = self(idx_cond)
logits = logits[:, -1, :] # take logits for the last token only: (B, vocab_size)
# Optional top-k sampling
if top_k is not None:
v, _ = torch.topk(logits, top_k, dim=-1)
logits[logits < v[:, [-1]]] = float("-inf")
# Apply temperature and softmax
probs = F.softmax(logits / temperature, dim=-1)
# Sample from the distribution
idx_next = torch.multinomial(probs, num_samples=1) # (B, 1)
idx = torch.cat((idx, idx_next), dim=1) # (B, T+1)
return idx
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