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THE PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO THE MAXIMAL UPDATE PARAMETERIZATION

blog.eleuther.ai31 min read

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Maximal Update Parameterization, or muP, is a way to initialize your model so that you can transfer hyperparameters at any scale. This blog from Eleuther and Cerebras includes a minimal nanoGPT example and lots of instruction on how the process works.