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Huang: Training CodeLlama on Llama 2 caused catastrophic language forgetting
“We do have historical precedent where CodeLlama was, you know, trained further from the original CodeLlama was trained further from Lama II, and it just lost, All its language capabilities, basically, right?”
Mark Huang May 31, 2024 ▶ 33:03 How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
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Bakouch: DeepSeek-V3 uses the same Adam optimizer parameters as Llama 2
“And for example, a good a good way to view that is that DeepSeq rig three is still using the same Adam parameter than Lama two.”
Elie Bakouch Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 8:54 ⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
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Scialom: Llama 3 Scaled Pre-Training to 15 Trillion Tokens
“It's the same recipe done in terms of architectures and training than LAMA-II, but we put so much effort on scaling the data and the quality of data. There's now 15 triant tokens compared to two triants, so it's another magnitude there as well, including for t…”
Thomas Scialom Jul 23, 2024 ▶ 18:15 Training Llama 2, 3 & 4: The Path to Open Source AGI — with Thomas Scialom of Meta AI
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Huang: Curriculum context expansion outperforms full-length training from scratch
“If you train a model on a shorter context and you progressively increase that context to, like, You know, the final limit that you have, like, 32 K is usually the limit of Lama two was that long. It actually performs better than if you try to train 32 K the …”
Mark Huang May 31, 2024 ▶ 15:39 How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
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Lambert: Meta Used Rejection Sampling to Bootstrapping Llama 2 RLHF
“Llama started their RLHF process with this to get some signal out of preference data. That preference data went into a reward model, and then the reward model did a good enough ranking that it was, like, essentially superpowered instruction tuning based on rew…”
Nathan Lambert Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 1:03:01 The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
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