Run Very Large Language Models on Your Computer

Author(s): Benjamin Marie

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New large language models are publicly released almost every month. They are getting better and larger.

You may assume that these models can only be run on big clusters or in the cloud.

Fortunately, this is not the case. Recent versions of PyTorch propose several mechanisms that make the use of large language models relatively easy on a standard computer and without much engineering, thanks to the Hugging Face Accelerate package.

In this article, I will present a simple way to use large language models on your own computer or… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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