Gemma 3 270M re-implemented in pure PyTorch for local tinkering

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  1. LLMs-from-scratch

    Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step

    Could be an artifact of the small size not fully taking advantage of the GPU. For example, for the slightly larger Qwen3 0.6B model the A100 is faster (you can see it when scrolling to the bottom here: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/tree/main/ch05/11...)

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    PyTorch native quantization and sparsity for training and inference

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