Training Setup and VPS Deployment Summary | Generated by AI

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πŸŽ‰ Training works! Completed 100 iterations in ~2 minutes. Loss dropped from 10.84 β†’ 8.71.

Summary of what’s ready on the VPS:

Item Location Notes
Data /root/nanoGPT/data/fineweb/ train.bin (27MB), val.bin (191MB)
Config /root/nanoGPT/config/train_fineweb_test.py Tiny model for test
Code /root/nanoGPT/ train.py, model.py, etc.
Output /root/nanoGPT/out-fineweb-test/ Checkpoints

For your GPU droplet, you need to:

  1. Copy the prepared data:
    scp -r root@159.89.216.20:/root/nanoGPT/data/fineweb ./data/
    
  2. Copy the full nanoGPT code:
    scp -r root@159.89.216.20:/root/nanoGPT/* ./
    
  3. Use the real training config (config/train_fineweb.py) with GPU settings β€” larger batch size, proper model (125M params), compile=True, etc.

  4. On GPU droplet, train with:
    python train.py config/train_fineweb.py
    

Want me to show you the real train_fineweb.py config settings, or prepare the full 61GB data preparation on the VPS (will take hours though)?


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