karpathy/makemore

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  # makemore
  
  makemore takes one text file as input, where each line is assumed to be one training thing, and generates more things like it. Under the hood, it is an autoregressive character-level language model, with a wide choice of models from bigrams all the way to a Transformer (exactly as seen in GPT). For example, we can feed it a database of names, and makemore will generate cool baby name ideas that all sound name-like, but are not already existing names. Or if we feed it a database of company names then we can generate new ideas for a name of a company. Or we can just feed it valid scrabble words and generate english-like babble.

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  # makemore
  
  makemore is a pedagogical project for building autoregressive character-level language models from scratch in PyTorch, demonstrating architectures from bigrams to Transformers (like GPT). It takes a text file as input to generate more things like it, but its primary purpose is to teach the fundamental mechanics of neural network-based language generation.

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  An autoregressive character-level language model for making more things

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  A pedagogical project for building autoregressive character-level language models from scratch in PyTorch, demonstrating architectures from bigrams to Transformers.

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  3. Claude
  4. Llama 2
  5. Falcon
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  7. BERT
  8. RoBERTa
  9. T5
  10. BART
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  12. markovify
  13. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
  14. Long Short-Term Memory (LSTMs)
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  17. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
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  2. Karpathy's min-char-rnn.py (PyTorch port)
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