Fine Tune GPT Models Using Lit-Parrot by Lightening-AI
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Dr. Mandar Karhade, MD. PhD.
Originally published on Towards AI.
BYOD Bring Your Own Data! and Let's Train on Your GPU
Lit-Parrot is a hackable implementation of state-of-the-art open-source large language models:
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Lit-Parrot has been released under the Apache 2.0 license.
This implementation builds on Lit-LLaMA and nanoGPT, and is powered by Lightning Fabric U+26A1.
Weights can be downloaded following these instructions:
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Lit-Parrot is:
Simple: Single-file implementation without boilerplate.Correct: Numerically equivalent to the original model.Optimized: Runs on consumer hardware or at scale.Open-source: No strings attached.
Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lit-parrotcd lit-parrot
Lit-Parrot currently relies on FlashAttention from PyTorch nightly. Until PyTorch 2.1 is released, you’ll need to install it nightly manually. Luckily that is straightforward:
On CUDA
# for cudapip install –index-url <https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu118> –pre 'torch>=2.1.0dev'#… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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