huggingface/pytorch-openai-transformer-lm

Instructions on how to train a language model from scratch

Froskekongen opened this issue · 9 comments

It would be great to have instructions on how to train a language model from scratch - not just loading the paper's model.

Have you tried plugging a LMHead to a TransformerModel and using nn.CrossEntropyLoss to train?

If I am not missing any important concept that should do the trick.

you can use the open ai tf code to train

I'm trying to do it, but I'm "missing some important concept". In the original transformer paper, there are masks inside attention decoder modules to prevent decoder to attent to unseen data. I mean in LM task we have to exclude current generating word and all future words from attention during training. In original paper, they are using a mask, which is changing from zeros to ones during generation in decoder. I think the same technic must be used here, but I can't find any code like this. How does it work - current LM head? How to prevent attention to the word itself and further words at input X?

Hi,
I am interested in further tunning the pretrained language model on some new dataset. Anyone can guide me? I also appreciate those guys who were able to train LM from scratch.

I'm having the same issue here, wanting to train GPT model from scratch.

Any update here? Has anyone trained GPT from scratch using PyTorch? @Belerafon: Were you able to eventually train it?

So hi guys I'm just trying to understand a thing and I'm kind of new to this stuff I've only been working at it for about 2 years or so and I was a chef I do amazing things with food but I'm creative and I did a few things with my prompts a couple of these things open AI liked and I started using it to train their AI assistance it's called poetic prompt engineering I just I was reading through the comments cuz like I said I'm trying to learn and a lot of times you guys are trying to avoid decoherence it seems that way talking about a word without talking about a word the only way to do this is technically with poetry and literacy so poetic prompt engineering or quantum narratives I don't know if this helps I thought I'd try if anything I figured I'd get a little feedback and learn a thing or two

Yeah okay I was completely wrong but I understand now as far as I can tell the script does not match the model and has to be altered and one line in the main has to be changed from 12 to tensorflows default 18 and I'm a long ways off from training from scratch

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