sentencepiece VS community-events

you need to train the model on 1 trillion tokens (https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer https://github.com/google/sentencepiece) anyways for it to get reasoning capacities, which it feels very unlikely that your data is that much.

I'm highly skeptical that you have enough data to pretrain if you don't have enough data to fine tune.

fine tuning + vector search + prompting of as much stuff as you can, on a LLM like palm2 or gpt4 is what I would do. otherwise you can use falcon 40B ofc.

maybe I should charge for this ahah

a) Comparison with SentencePiece tokenizer with comparable settings (It can also ignore word-boundaries and create phrase tokens)

LLaMA uses the sentencepiece tokenizer: https://github.com/google/sentencepiece

Besides, are you familiar with SentencePiece? What you are doing looks very similar (generate a large vocab, prune worst token until vocab size is reached), only the token selection criterion is different. It's also purely data driven in the sense that there are no assumption specific to language (and it can optionally segment across whitespace, as you are doing).

Hi, I'm studying the implementation of encode and decode functions for Google's SentencePiece tokenizer.

I think many LMs nowadays use unicode tokenizers, that are not tied to specific languages. E.g. sentencepiece is the most popular one: https://github.com/google/sentencepiece

If you are interested in implementing LLaMA yourself or learning, I noticed that the reference code by Facebook is one of the cleaner, easier to read ML code I've seen in a while. https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/llama/mo... It's about 200 lines long. You probably do need a bit of knowledge to understand what you are reading but I was pleasantly surprised.

For example in comparison, StableDiffusion torch code in diffusers and transformers Python libraries has lots of conditionals, experiments etc. that are not being used that can make it hard to follow what is going on.

Last weekend I got the "main loop" of the transformer working in pure CPU Rust code, following the reference code. My crappy code is just very very slow as I focused on getting it to run, not making it fast. The tokenizer uses some Google thing https://github.com/google/sentencepiece but luckily for inference it seems that you just need to be able to parse the tokenizer model file and not understand how it was created; I was able to strip out the protobuf files from that repository and add it to Rust and read the tokens.

I am optimistic that someone makes a high quality CPU or some CPU+GPU+SSD combination thingmaling that will make it somewhat practical to run even the large LLM models without needing an A100 or two.

Best applications that will come out of this sprint will receive prizes. You can find more information here. If you want to get started, simply join huggingface.co/discord, take the role 🧨 Diffusers and head to #jax-diffusers-ideas to share your idea or join one of the teams, and fill this form: https://forms.gle/t3M7aNPuLL9V1sfa9

It will start on 17th of April. To join us, you can join huggingface.co/join/discord and take the role Diffusers from #role-assignment. After this, simply fill the form provided in this guide to later get access to TPUs. https://github.com/huggingface/community-events/tree/main/jax-controlnet-sprint

Details and sign-up: https://github.com/huggingface/community-events/tree/main/jax-controlnet-sprint

For the training, I extremely recommend checking out the Whisper Fine-Tuning Event. It has a python script to train in one command, tons of tips, even a walkthrough video.

We are happy to invite you to the Gradio Blocks Party - a community event in which we will create interactive demos for state-of-the-art machine learning models. Demos are powerful because they allow anyone — not just ML engineers — to try out models in the browser, give feedback on predictions, identify trustworthy models. The event will take place from May 17th to 31st. We will be organizing this event on Github and the Hugging Face discord channel. Prizes will be given at the end of the event, see the Prizes section

If you're interested in generative models, Hugging Face is putting on an event around generative models right now called the HugGAN sprint, where they're giving away free access to compute to train models like this.

You can join it by following the steps in the guide here: https://github.com/huggingface/community-events/tree/main/hu...

There will also be talks from awesome folks at EleutherAI, Google, and Deepmind