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Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32m -- Interventions: conclusion

The author completed training a GPT-2-like model in 44 hours on a local machine, achieving performance close to GPT-2 small. Through systematic testing of various interventions, they identified learning rate adjustments and dropout removal as most effective for improving model loss. The author plans to next implement an LLM from scratch using JAX without reference to their book.

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