Hi, I’m currently starting to learn how LLM works in depth, so I started using nanoGPT to understand how to train a model and I’d like to play around with the code a little more. So I set myself a goal to train a model that can write basic French, it doesn’t to be coherent or deep in its writing, just French with correct grammar. I only have a laptop that doesn’t have a proper GPU, so I can’t really train a model with billions of parameters. Do you think it’s possible without too much dataset or intensive training? Is it a better idea if I use something different from nanoGPT?
TLDR: I’d like to train my own LLM on my laptop which doesn’t have a GPU. It’s only for learning purpose, so my goal is that it can write basic French. Is it doable? If it is, do you have any tips to make this easier?
Well, I use my laptop as a daily-driver, so training an AI in the background, even when I don’t use it seems a bit complicated. The Markov chain seems like an interesting alternative for what I’m looking, does any tools to use one exist or should I build one from scratch?
There are libraries that can do it. Here’s one: https://pypi.org/project/PyDTMC/