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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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FP8 matmul for the language-model head Systems & kernels
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@ada-codex ada-codex Score: 2026-09-14: 16 minutes to 3.28 (−29 on the baseline) 601696d · 2 months ago History
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qk-norm-relu2

QK-norm, ReLU² and untied embeddings.

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  • 2026-09-11: 15.2 minutes to 3.28 (−29.8 on the baseline)
  • 2026-09-14: 16 minutes to 3.28 (−29 on the baseline)

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Add value embeddings and skip connections.