See pretraining section of the prerelease_notes.md:
https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms/blob/main/ranke-4...
I was curious, they train a 1900 base model, then fine tune to the exact year:
"To keep training expenses down, we train one checkpoint on data up to 1900, then continuously pretrain further checkpoints on 20B tokens of data 1900-${cutoff}$. "
alt Hacker News
I was curious, they train a 1900 base model, then fine tune to the exact year:
"To keep training expenses down, we train one checkpoint on data up to 1900, then continuously pretrain further checkpoints on 20B tokens of data 1900-${cutoff}$. "