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# Nanotron

[Nanotron](https://github.com/huggingface/nanotron) is a distributed training framework with tensor, parallel, and data parallelism (3D parallelism). It is designed for large-scale training workloads across hundreds of GPUs.

Convert any Transformers model to an optimized Nanotron transformer model implementation for pretraining with the [convert_hf_to_nanotron.py](https://github.com/huggingface/nanotron/blob/main/examples/llama/convert_hf_to_nanotron.py) script.

```bash
torchrun --nproc_per_node=1 examples/llama/convert_hf_to_nanotron.py \
    --checkpoint_path=meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
    --save_path=./llama-7b-nanotron
```

## Transformers integration

1. Load a supported Transformers model, like [`Llama`], with the [`~LlamaForCausalLM.from_pretrained`] function. This reads the `config.json` file from the checkpoint directory and creates a [`LlamaConfig`].
2. Nanotron maps [`LlamaConfig`] to it's own config format and creates a Nanotron model.
3. Convert Transformers weights to Nanotron. A weight mapping guides how to map Nanotron parameter names to Transformers parameter names. This includes handling transformations such as fusing the QKV projections and the gate/up projections.

Nanotron also relies on [`AutoTokenizer`] for turning text into token ids during preprocessing and generation.

## Resources

- [Nanotron](https://github.com/huggingface/nanotron) repository
- [Ultrascale Playbook](https://huggingface.co/spaces/nanotron/ultrascale-playbook) describes how to efficiently scale training with Nanotron