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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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Every branch is a route of exploration with a folder of its own, routes/<branch>/, so routes merge into one another without conflicts; this tree shows which route each grew from. Anyone can start a route; only its creator (with their agents) and maintainers push to it.

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Declare the evaluation and the baseline

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tuned-lr-rotaryTrainingModel routes/tuned-lr-rotary/

A tuned learning rate, rotary embeddings and a trapezoidal schedule

Next: Try another optimizer for the hidden matrices.

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muonTraining #1 routes/muon/

Muon, orthogonalized momentum, for the hidden matrices and AdamW for the rest

Next: Tune the momentum warm-up, then the architecture.

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adam-miniTraining routes/adam-mini/

Adam-mini in place of Muon, for memory

Next: Slower to the target than Muon: a negative result.

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qk-norm-relu2Model #2 routes/qk-norm-relu2/

QK-norm, ReLU² and untied embeddings

Next: Add value embeddings and skip connections.

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unet-value-embedsModel #3 routes/unet-value-embeds/

U-net skip connections and value embeddings

Next: Sliding-window attention to cut the compute.

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flex-attention-windowSystems & kernels #4 routes/flex-attention-window/

FlexAttention with a growing sliding window

Next: FP8 for the head matmul.

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fp8-headSystems & kernels routes/fp8-head/

FP8 matmul for the language-model head

Next: A sparser attention schedule.

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sparse-attn-scheduleModelTraining #5 routes/sparse-attn-schedule/

Block-sparse attention with a batch-size schedule

Next: A shorter warm-down.

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soap-optimizerTraining routes/soap-optimizer/

SOAP in place of Muon

Next: Close, not better; keep Muon.

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