Curious about the baseline choice. modded-nanogpt was optimized for wall-clock speed, not data efficiency, so it seems like an unusual reference point for this kind of benchmark. Why not vanilla NanoGPT?

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timshel1 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Modded-nanogpt is also much more data efficient than vanilla napogpt, even if some of the individual optimizations trade off higher throughput for worse data efficiency.

	▲	sdpmas 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yes, agreed, modded-nanogpt is already a data-efficient variant of original nanogpt. just that the kinds of algorithms it allows are somewhat constrained because it optimizes for wall clock time.