EFFICIENT LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING

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Inheritune is a streamlined method for developing smaller base language models from larger ones by inheriting a few transformer blocks and training on a tiny fraction (0.1%) of the original data. This approach enabled the creation of a 1.5B parameter model using only an A6000 GPU in less than half a day, achieving results that compete well against larger models trained on significantly more data.