Gemma-3-Earthen-Completion-v0.1-4B-QLoRA

Gemma-3-Earthen-Completion-v0.1-4B-QLoRA

google/gemma-3-4b-pt was trained at 8K with batch size 4 gradient accumulation 2, so each step was 65,536 tokens (including any padding tokens). It was trained for 120 steps, adding up to a total of 7,864,320 unique tokens seen.

This is a small test run. A larger version is planned.

Quants

• GGUF from mradermacher

Prompt Format

This model uses completion format.

Training Details

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#   - Get latest commit of axolotl (currently c0a0c75)
#   - Download these to axolotl/src/axolotl/prompt_formatters
#     - https://github.com/xzuyn/axolotl/blob/came-plus-formatters/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/formatter_regex.py
#     - https://github.com/xzuyn/axolotl/blob/came-plus-formatters/src/axolotl/prompt_strategies/customcompletion-regex.py
#   - pip install ftfy
#   - pip install git+https://github.com/xzuyn/CAME.git@sr-grams-cautious-8bit

# Weights and Biases logging config
wandb_project: Gemma-3-4B
wandb_entity:
wandb_watch:
wandb_name: Gemma-3-Earthen-Completion-v0.1-4B-QLoRA-run9
wandb_log_model:

# Model checkpointing config
output_dir: ./Outputs/Gemma-3-Earthen-Completion-v0.1-4B-QLoRA-run9
save_steps: 10
save_safetensors: true
save_total_limit: 2
save_only_model: true

# Model architecture config
base_model: google/gemma-3-4b-pt
model_type: AutoModelForCausalLM
tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer

# Mixed precision training config
bf16: true
fp16: false
tf32: false

# Model loading config
load_in_8bit: false
load_in_4bit: true
strict: false

# Sequence config
sequence_len: 8192
min_sample_len: 512
sample_packing: true
eval_sample_packing: true
pad_to_sequence_len: true
train_on_inputs: false
group_by_length: false

# LoRA adapter config
adapter: qlora
lora_model_dir:
lora_r: 256
lora_alpha: 256
lora_dropout: 0.125
lora_target_modules: 'language_model.model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
embeddings_skip_upcast: true

# Dataset config
datasets:
# Completion
  # Story-like Data
  - path: BeaverAI/REDACTED1
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/Lit-axo-Shuffled
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/Mielikki_Erebus-87k-axo
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers/RyokoAI_Honeyfeed3600-Cleanish
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: BeaverAI/REDACTED2
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/allura-org_fujin-cleaned-stage-2-axo
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: Nelathan/synthetic-sugar-quill
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: BeaverAI/REDACTED3
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/recursal_SCP-RECURSAL-Cleaned
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  # Subtitle Data
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/Subtitles
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/KaraKaraWitch_AnimeSubtitle-axo
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  # News Data
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/Fundus-105K-Formatted
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/Fundus-AP-News-Formatted
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: PJMixers/AP-News-2024
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  # Misc Data
  - path: PJMixers-Dev/goodwiki-2024-12-04-axo
    split: train[:1000]
    type: customcompletion-regex
  - path: epfl-llm/guidelines
    split: train[:1000]
    field: clean_text
    type: customcompletion-regex
test_datasets:
val_set_size: 128
eval_strategy: steps
eval_steps: 10
dataset_prepared_path: ./00-Tokenized-Datasets/Gemma-3-Earthen-Completion-v0.1-4B-LoRA-seed42
shuffle_merged_datasets: true
dataset_processes:

# Training hyperparameters
num_epochs: 1
gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
micro_batch_size: 4
eval_batch_size: 4
warmup_steps: 0
optimizer: came_pytorch
optim_args:
  enable_stochastic_rounding: true
  enable_cautious: true
  enable_8bit: true
lr_scheduler: rex
learning_rate: 5e-7
cosine_min_lr_ratio: 0.05
weight_decay: 0.01
max_grad_norm: 0.5
logging_steps: 1

# Model optimization
gradient_checkpointing: offload
sdp_attention: true
plugins:
  - axolotl.integrations.liger.LigerPlugin
  - axolotl.integrations.cut_cross_entropy.CutCrossEntropyPlugin
cut_cross_entropy: true
liger_rope: true
liger_rms_norm: true
liger_layer_norm: true
liger_glu_activation: true
liger_cross_entropy: false
liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy: false
lora_mlp_kernel: false
lora_qkv_kernel: false
lora_o_kernel: false

# DeepSpeed
deepspeed:

# Garbage Collection
gc_steps:

# Debug config
debug: true
seed: 42

# Token config
special_tokens:
  bos_token: "<bos>"
  eos_token: "<eos>"
  pad_token: "<pad>"
tokens:

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