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model finetuning library

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45points
6comments
#1,358of 3,515 in 2024
Top 39%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

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0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

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What people liked

  • No accuracy loss from the speedups, since no approximations are used.

    From 1 comment
    • No catch at all!! There's 0 approximations, so everything is exact! We just have a custom backprop engine, rewrite everything into OpenAI's Triton language, and do all the…
      danielhanchen on HN

Requests

  • Support for full parallel finetuning, not just 16bit and 4bit.

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • Is there a training speed or VRAM penalty for the speedups?

    From 1 comment
    • Hard to read on mobile, but if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the catch? Is there a penalty to training faster and less VRAM?
      syntaxing on HN

Alternatives named

  • Hugging Face with Flash Attention 2.

    From 2 comments
    • Hey! If you're interested to try out finetuning Llama-3 8B (Meta's new 15 trillion token!! model), made a Colab to finetune Llama-3 2x faster and use 60% less VRAM, and supports…
      danielhanchen on HN
    • No catch at all!! There's 0 approximations, so everything is exact! We just have a custom backprop engine, rewrite everything into OpenAI's Triton language, and do all the…
      danielhanchen on HN

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