nanoGPT speedrun
Train GPT-2 small to a fixed validation loss in as little time as possible (placeholder)
| 1 | { |
| 2 | "domain": "computer-science", |
| 3 | "image": "python:3.12-slim", |
| 4 | "data": "FineWeb 10B tokens with the GPT-2 tokenizer, in a fixed order; the validation set is the first 10M tokens.", |
| 5 | "benchmark": { |
| 6 | "task": "Budgeted language-model training", |
| 7 | "metric": { |
| 8 | "name": "minutes to 3.28", |
| 9 | "better": "lower" |
| 10 | }, |
| 11 | "guardrails": [ |
| 12 | "Reaches 3.28 cross-entropy on the FineWeb validation set", |
| 13 | "One run on the pinned 8×H100 runner, with no warm caches", |
| 14 | "Same tokenizer, data and order; no external weights or data" |
| 15 | ], |
| 16 | "baseline": { |
| 17 | "name": "llm.c GPT-2 (124M)", |
| 18 | "score": 45 |
| 19 | } |
| 20 | } |
| 21 | } |