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GPU-Accelerated Computing with Python 3 and CUDA
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We built a transformer-based language model using JAX, demonstrating the basics of how modern LLMs function under the hood. Our goal was to implement a small, GPT-style generative model capable of producing human-like text. We began by understanding the necessary components of transformer models, such as the attention mechanism, multi-head self-attention, and feed-forward networks. These formed the foundation for constructing a full transformer layer.
We also explored the concept of embeddings, covering both token and positional embeddings, to represent text in a format suitable for neural networks. With these pieces in place, we assembled a decoder-only transformer model following the GPT-2 architecture. We tokenized input text using HG's GPT-2 tokenizer and created fixed-length sequences of input for training.
Finally, we defined the loss function, optimizer, and training state. We implemented and ran a training loop to train our model. Though our initial model was small...