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AI series details GPT overfitting and model internals

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A four-part series explores the inner workings of AI models, using a single MacBook for demonstrations. The series details how a small GPT model's performance degraded despite improving training scores, and explains tokenization by examining how a model perceives "strawberry" as a single unit. It also visualizes the internal processes of a transformer model and analyzes the impact of quantization on an 8 billion parameter model, noting that 4-bit precision is efficient while 2-bit is non-functional. AI

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · R4TSQ ·

    I opened up AI: a 4-part series, one MacBook, every number from my own runs. 1. A tiny GPT that got worse while its training score kept improving 2. Why a model

    I opened up AI: a 4-part series, one MacBook, every number from my own runs. 1. A tiny GPT that got worse while its training score kept improving 2. Why a model sees "strawberry" as one token 3. Paris showing up at layer 28 of 36 inside a transformer 4. An 8B model at 16, 8, 4 an…

    LINKS youtube.com/playlist
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · R4TSQ ·

    My tiny GPT peaked at step 1,250, then got worse while its training score kept improving. That is Part 1 of How AI Actually Works, now complete: one MacBook, ev

    My tiny GPT peaked at step 1,250, then got worse while its training score kept improving. That is Part 1 of How AI Actually Works, now complete: one MacBook, every number from my own runs. 1. Training a tiny GPT until it overfits 2. Why a model sees strawberry as one token 3. Whe…

    LINKS youtube.com/playlist

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