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Transformer Training Craft

Stability tricks used in modern LLM pretraining recipes.

Transformer Training Craft

Stability toolkit

  • Pre-norm vs post-norm
  • Warmup + cosine decay
  • Gradient clipping
  • Mixed precision with loss scaling

Data quality > clever tricks

For language models, corpus curation and deduplication often beat exotic architectural tweaks.

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