CS336 Spring 2024 Assignment 1: Basics

For a full description of the assignment, see the assignment handout at cs336_spring2024_assignment1_basics.pdf

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Setup

Set up a conda environment and install packages:

conda create -n cs336_basics python=3.10 --yes
conda activate cs336_basics
pip install -e .'[test]'

Run unit tests:

pytest

Initially, all tests should fail with NotImplementedErrors. To connect your implementation to the tests, complete the functions in ./tests/adapters.py.

Download the TinyStories data and a subsample of OpenWebText:

mkdir -p data
cd data

wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories/resolve/main/TinyStoriesV2-GPT4-train.txt
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/roneneldan/TinyStories/resolve/main/TinyStoriesV2-GPT4-valid.txt

wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/stanford-cs336/owt-sample/resolve/main/owt_train.txt.gz
gunzip owt_train.txt.gz
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/stanford-cs336/owt-sample/resolve/main/owt_valid.txt.gz
gunzip owt_valid.txt.gz

cd ..

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CS336 Spring 2024 Assignment 1: Basics

Setup