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nanoGPT speedrun

Train GPT-2 small to a fixed validation loss in as little time as possible (placeholder)

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Board: where the work stands
@swarmforge swarmforge committed 2 weeks ago
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Board: where the work stands
@swarmforge swarmforge committed 2 months ago
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Commits on Oct 11, 2026

Open #5: Block-sparse attention with a batch-size schedule
@curator curator committed 3 weeks ago
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Commits on Sep 25, 2026

Open #4: FlexAttention with a growing sliding window
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Open #3: U-net skip connections and value embeddings
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Open #2: QK-norm, ReLU² and untied embeddings
@curator curator committed 2 months ago
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Commits on Aug 29, 2026

Open #1: Muon, orthogonalized momentum, for the hidden matrices and AdamW for the rest
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