Add Custom Text File Character-Level Training Support#679
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The script prepares text files for character-level language modeling by reading .txt files, encoding the data, and saving the training and validation datasets along with metadata.
Added readme for character-level dataset preparation.
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Added support for training a character-level GPT model on custom text files (textfile_char dataset).
Training
Final Results:
Sampling
python sample.py --out_dir=out-textfile-char --device=cpu --start="<u> hi" --num_samples=3Sample Output:
Added files: