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4 Aug
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
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22 Mar
Flash-Moe: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Mac with 48GB RAM

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24 Mar
Run a 1T parameter model on a 32gb Mac by streaming tensors from NVMe

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18 Aug
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

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4 Jul
If your GPU can run inference, it should be able to fine-tune too. [P]

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1unl62q/if_your_gpu_can_run_inference_it_should_be_able/"> <img alt="If your GPU can run inference, it

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31 Mar
You guys seen this? 1-bit model with an MMLU-R of 65.7, 8B params

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>This is nuts.</p> <p><a href="https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-gguf">prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-gguf · Hugging Face</a></p> <p>has anyone tested

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8 Apr
Napkin math: KV cache for Llama 3.1 at 128K context is ~64GB per decode request, and that's after GQA

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Every output token the model generates requires reading the entire KV cache from High Bandwidth Memory.</p> <p>Here's what that actually looks

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16 Jul
How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

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29 Sept
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

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