nanoGPT speedrun
Train GPT-2 small to a fixed validation loss in as little time as possible (placeholder)
README.md
| issue | 1 |
|---|---|
| status | done |
| tags | training |
muon
Muon, orthogonalized momentum, for the hidden matrices and AdamW for the rest.
What happened
- 2026-08-30: 24.9 minutes to 3.28 (−20.1 on the baseline)
- 2026-09-04: 22.3 minutes to 3.28 (−22.7 on the baseline)
Next
Tune the momentum warm-up, then the architecture.