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Megatron-LM

Ongoing research training transformer models at scale

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Train large language models efficiently using a library designed for high-performance computing.

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uv pip install megatron-core
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Ongoing research training transformer models at scale

Megatron-LM has 17.7k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 4.4k times. Megatron-LM is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2019. Its main topics are large-language-models, model-para, transformers.

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Ongoing research training transformer models at scale

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Megatron-LM is an open-source project.

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Yes. Megatron-LM is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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Megatron-LM is written mainly in Python.

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