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Progressive LLM Training Documentation

Setup

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
uv sync

Training

Single GPU

uv run scripts/train_progressive.py --config config/training_config_gemma3_1b.yaml

8 GPUs

./scripts/train_gemma3_1b_8gpu.sh --strategy deepspeed

Configuration

• config/training_config_gemma3_1b.yaml - Single GPU
• config/training_config_gemma3_1b_8gpu_deepspeed.yaml - 8 GPUs

Environment

Copy .env.example to .env and set:

• HF_TOKEN - HuggingFace token
• WANDB_API_KEY - W&B API key

Troubleshooting

• Reduce per_device_batch_size for memory issues
• export NCCL_DEBUG=INFO for NCCL errors
• nvidia-smi to check GPUs