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I Trained a Language Model From Scratch on a 4 GB GPU
Community description: A 4 GB GPU, a small corpus and a lot of things that went wrong in instructive ways. I trained a...
Dev.to | Oct 12, 2026 | Sandra Bamboo
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AI. 001 was my first experiment: training a small language model from random weights on my laptop. A strong model smooths over its mechanics. Originally published on sandrabamboo. com: https://sandrabamboo. com/training-my-first-language-model-on-a-gtx-1650/ — for model architecture, corpus sources, training curves and per-source evaluation, see the complete AI. 001 experiment: https://sandrabamboo.
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