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How I made it possible to pretrain a 1B LLM on 6GB VRAM

AI · Practice · 2026-10-26 18:59

The author shares three approaches for pretraining a 1B-parameter LLM on a laptop GPU with only 6GB VRAM: activating only the portion currently being trained, compressing the weights themselves, and a subsequent chunking strategy to overcome memory limits.

Source: huggingface.co


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