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r/LocalLLaMA · u/returnity · 17d ago

mini-AGI: Continual-learning dynamically looped transformer with evolutionary grown (on a laptop)

Saw this today and found it very intriguing. Lots of interesting design choices here, and it's cool to see someone doing something different. Here's a few highlights:

  • Looped transformer: dynamic recurrent depth on a per-token basis, up to 24 cycles
  • Self-supervised learning: trains itself on new material constantly
  • Weights stored on SSD and paged in on-demand
  • Mixture of Experts: 8 active, 32 routed held in VRAM, smart caching of 96 more
  • Dynamic size: builds new experts and increases parameter counds as-needed
  • Evolutionary growth: trials newly generated experts, unused ones are pruned back
  • No tokenizer: it reads raw bytes directly
  • Catastrophic forgetting prevented by slow trunk/fast experts learning rate split

Weights will be released in "a couple weeks" once training progress reaches \~GPT-2 levels. The trend line has held 15-fold so far, but it may bend at some point, so that is definitely a rough estimate of the trajectory.

What do you guys think?

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