how to import data and finetune

 Bhai sabse pehle clear context:

👉 Tu ne jo dataset share kiya hai:
🔗 https://huggingface.co/datasets/cerebras/SlimPajama-627B

Ye ek MEGA text dataset hai, jo LLMs ko pre-training ke liye use hota hai — not fine-tuning.
Matlab ye full language model training data hai, jisko GPT-type models pe next-token prediction training ke liye use karte.

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🧠 Ye dataset kis kaam aata hai?

✔️ Pre-training a large language model

Ye data istemal hota hai jab tu ek naya LLM scratch se bana raha hai, jaisa:

• GPT-style model

• Transformer decoder

• Next word prediction

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❌ NOT typical fine-tuning data

Ye data supervised labels wala nahi hota
-> Tu isko sentiment / QA / classification training mein seedha use nahi karta

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📌 Intuition (very simple)

Ye dataset = billion+ text tokens
LLMs ko sikhata hai:
👉 “agla word kya hona chahiye given context?”

Ye training objective kehlata hai:
causal language modeling

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🧠 Yeh dataset ka size

“627B” matlab 627 billion tokens
👉 Bahut huge
👉 Normal machines pe chalana impossible
(Hugging Face aur big research labs hi chalate)

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❓ Tu puch raha hai:

"Ispe ek demo model train kaise kare?"

Bhai practical machines pe SlimPajama-627B training impossible hai.
Ye sirf research clusters ke liye banaya gaya hai.

Lekin hum demo/mini training dikha sakte hain chhote slices ya down-sampled dataset ke sath.

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🎯 Demo goal

📌 Hum super small subset lete hain (first 1000 lines)
📌 Fir ek tiny transformer ko
📌 train karte hain causal language modeling pe
📌 Ye demo sirf samjhaane ke liye

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🛠️ Step by Step Demo (PyTorch + HuggingFace)

1️⃣ Install

pip install transformers datasets accelerate

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2️⃣ Load tiny subset

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("cerebras/SlimPajama-627B", split="train[:1%]")
print(dataset)

Ye first 1% data load karega — still huge, but demo friendly.

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3️⃣ Tokenizer & Model Setup (SUPER SMALL)

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")

Use GPT-2 base (chhota, manageable)

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4️⃣ Preprocess Data

def tokenize_function(examples):
    return tokenizer(examples["text"], truncation=True, max_length=128)

tokenized = dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True, remove_columns=["text"])

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5️⃣ Trainer Setup

from transformers import Trainer, TrainingArguments

training_args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir="./tiny_gpt2",
    num_train_epochs=1,
    per_device_train_batch_size=4,
    save_steps=500,
)

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=tokenized,
)

trainer.train()

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🧠 Important Notes

❗ SlimPajama-627B is NOT a fine-tuning dataset

Ye pre-training text data hai — emulates billions of sentences.

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⚠️ Demo only trains GPT-2 on subset of data

Ye fully actual SlimPajama training nahi hai.

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🎯 Real usage in research

Big labs use:

• Massive clusters (thousands of GPUs)

• Custom training loops

• Megatron-LM / DeepSpeed / ColossalAI

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🧠 One-line summary

SlimPajama-627B dataset is a huge pre-training text corpus used to train large open-source language models from scratch.
On ordinary machines, you can use only a small slice of it to demo small transformer training.

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🔥 Next if you want

Bata de bhai, I can give you:

✅ real fine-tuning example for:

• DistilGPT2

• LLaMA / Alpaca-style

• Mistral / Phi2

✅ Trainer with LoRA (efficient fine-tuning)

✅ Code to export weights & inference script

Just bol 😎

Bhai 🔥 ye bahut sahi question hai — exactly LLM engineer mindset.

Tu basically pooch raha hai:

“Kaun-kaun se models hain jo AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained() se load ho jaate hain
aur jinko main Google Colab pe fine-tune kar sakta hoon?”

Chal clean + practical list deta hoon, Colab-friendly order mein 👇

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🧠 Rule yaad rakh (pehle)

Jis model ka type = Causal Language Model (decoder-only)
→ wo AutoModelForCausalLM se load hota hai
→ next-token prediction pe fine-tune hota hai

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✅ BEST MODELS FOR COLAB FINETUNING (2025)

🟢 1️⃣ GPT-2 family (BEGINNER FRIENDLY)

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("gpt2")

Variants:

• gpt2

• gpt2-medium

• gpt2-large

✔️ Lightweight
✔️ CPU/GPU dono pe chalta
✔️ SlimPajama jaise data pe demo ke liye perfect

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🟢 2️⃣ DistilGPT-2 (FASTEST)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("distilgpt2")

✔️ GPT-2 ka compressed version
✔️ Colab free tier pe smooth
✔️ Learning ke liye 🔥

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🟢 3️⃣ Microsoft Phi Models (TOP CHOICE 🔥)

Phi-2

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/phi-2")

Phi-3 Mini

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct"
)

✔️ Small
✔️ High quality
✔️ Research + projects ke liye best

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🟢 4️⃣ Mistral-7B (ADVANCED)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1",
    device_map="auto"
)

⚠️ GPU required
⚠️ Colab T4 / A100 recommended

👉 LoRA / QLoRA ke saath hi fine-tune karo

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🟢 5️⃣ LLaMA-3 (State-of-the-art)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B",
    device_map="auto"
)

✔️ GPT-3.5+ quality
⚠️ HuggingFace access approval required
⚠️ LoRA mandatory for Colab

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🟢 6️⃣ Falcon (Lightweight 7B)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "tiiuae/falcon-7b",
    device_map="auto"
)

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🟢 7️⃣ Tiny Models (EXPERIMENT / DEMO)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("sshleifer/tiny-gpt2")

✔️ Ultra fast
✔️ Testing pipelines only

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❌ Models jo AutoModelForCausalLM se NAHI aate

Model	Kyun nahi
BERT	Encoder-only (masked LM)
RoBERTa	Not causal
T5	Encoder-decoder
SentenceTransformer	Embeddings only

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🧠 Which model tu choose kare? (Decision table)

Goal	Model
LLM basics seekhna	distilgpt2
Demo pretraining	gpt2
Research quality	phi-2
Real LLM project	phi-3-mini
Advanced LLM	mistral-7b
SOTA	llama-3

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🔥 Mini fine-tuning pattern (same for all)

from transformers import Trainer, TrainingArguments

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    args=TrainingArguments(
        output_dir="./out",
        per_device_train_batch_size=2,
        num_train_epochs=1,
    ),
    train_dataset=tokenized_data,
)

trainer.train()

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🧠 One-line yaad rakh

Decoder-only models = AutoModelForCausalLM = Colab-friendly fine-tuning

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Agar bole toh next:

• GPT-2 vs Phi-2 vs Mistral comparison

• LoRA / QLoRA full code

• SlimPajama pe best preprocessing

• Memory optimization tricks

Bas bol bhai 😎

Haan bhai 👍 DistilBERT aur “aur kaunse models” ka confusion bilkul normal hai.
Chal clean separation + examples ke saath samjhaata hoon.

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🔑 SABSE IMPORTANT RULE (yaad rakh)

AutoModelForCausalLM = text GENERATION (next word)
AutoModel / AutoModelForSequenceClassification = understanding tasks

Isliye DistilBERT ≠ GPT-type model.

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🔴 DistilBERT ko AutoModelForCausalLM se kyun nahi laa sakte?

❌ DistilBERT:

• Encoder-only model

• Masked Language Model (MLM)

• Text generate nahi karta

👉 Isliye ye ❌:

AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")

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🟢 DistilBERT actually kis kaam aata hai?

Tasks:

• Text classification

• Sentiment analysis

• Similarity

• NER

• QA (span-based)

Correct import 👇

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")

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🔥 DistilBERT fine-tuning example (classification)

from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification

model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
    "distilbert-base-uncased",
    num_labels=2
)

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🧠 Ab COMPLETE MODEL MAP (CONFUSION END)

🟢 A. GENERATIVE MODELS (AutoModelForCausalLM)

Model	Use
gpt2	Text generation
distilgpt2	Fast generation
phi-2	High-quality small LLM
phi-3-mini	Modern LLM
mistral-7b	Large LLM
llama-3	SOTA

Example:

AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("distilgpt2")

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🟡 B. ENCODER MODELS (UNDERSTANDING)

Model	Use
bert-base	Understanding
distilbert	Fast BERT
roberta	Better BERT
albert	Lightweight
electra	Efficient

Example:

AutoModel.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased")

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🔵 C. SEQ2SEQ MODELS (INPUT → OUTPUT)

Model	Use
t5	Text → text
bart	Summarization
flan-t5	Instruction tasks

Example:

AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("google/flan-t5-small")

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🤔 “Toh main DistilBERT ko fine-tune kar sakta hoon?”

✅ YES — but NOT for generation

Example use-cases:

• “Is review positive or negative?”

• “Are these two sentences similar?”

• “Is this spam?”

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🧠 When to use WHAT (decision table)

Tu kya banana chahta hai	Model
ChatGPT-like bot	GPT / Phi / Mistral
Text generation	CausalLM
Sentence similarity	DistilBERT
Sentiment analysis	DistilBERT
Q&A system	BERT / RoBERTa
Summarization	T5 / BART

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🔥 One-line clarity (exam/interview ready)

DistilBERT is an encoder-only model used for text understanding,
while GPT-style models are decoder-only and used for text generation.

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Agar tu bole next:

• DistilBERT fine-tuning demo (sentiment)

• DistilBERT embeddings vs SentenceTransformer

• GPT vs BERT architecture diagram

• Kaunsa model CV ke liye best

bol de bhai 😄