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Python package to easily retrain OpenAI's GPT-2 text-generating model on new texts

19 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2019-04-19 · latest 2025-12-14

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  1. …instead we fine-tuned GPT-2 instead. (As was the fashion at the time!) We used this one, I think https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple I think it took 2-3 hours on my friend's Nvidia something. The result was absolutely hilarious. It…
    comment by andai · 2025-12-14 · in I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model
  2. …I ran it on Google Colab. My friend ran it on his GPU, it should be doable on most modern-ish GPUs. https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple I tried doing something with this a few months ago though and it was a bit of a hassle to get…
    comment by andai · 2023-09-09 · in Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversations
  3. …studying this technology I literally publish open-source packages on how to use this technology. https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen
    comment by minimaxir · 2022-04-20 · in Are you the asshole? – AI powered answer bot
  4. …released a wrapper to streamline that code and make it much easier to finetune on your own data. ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple ) Nowadays, the easiest way to interact with GPT-2 is to use the transformers library (…
    comment by minimaxir · 2020-12-27 · in Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
  5. …own text (if you've played the free version of AI Dungeon, this is how they trained their model): https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    comment by calebkaiser · 2020-09-09 · in Low-code, no-model recommendation system with GPT3
  6. …GPT-2 on your own text (a la AI Dungeon), I'd suggest using gpt-2-simple and deploying with Cortex: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple Lastly, by following this example, you can deploy your API locally (where inference will probably…
    comment by calebkaiser · 2020-09-08 · in Show HN: Can't afford GPT-3 access? Self-host your own GPT-2 API
  7. I've been following minimaxir's work with GPT-2 for a while - I've tried building things on https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple for example - and this looks like a HUGE leap forward in terms of developer usability. The old stuff was…
    comment by simonw · 2020-05-18 · in Show HN: A Python tool for text-based AI training and generation using GPT-2
  8. See the notes and Colab notebook in the source project repo: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple I am working on a new text generation package which should be even more simple to use.
    comment by minimaxir · 2020-05-05 · in Show HN: I trained GPT-2 to write like Goop
  9. …litterature was fine-tuned on 300Kb of french love poetry and love songs. We used GPT-2-Simple https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple and GPT-2-Cloud-Run https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-cloud-run by Max Woolf. The base french model…
    comment by timohear · 2020-02-16 · in Show HN: I used AI to write my wife a Valentine's day love letter (in French)
  10. …You can train your own GPT-2 bot using minimaxir's GPT2-simple https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    comment by _5659 · 2019-10-30 · in Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
  11. …to reproduce see http://trumptwitterarchive.com/archive and then you just follow the directions on https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    comment by zitterbewegung · 2019-10-23 · in Show HN: RoboTrump – I made a Trump text generator that is fully convincing
  12. About GPT-2 finetuning: I have a Python package which makes the process straightforward ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple ), along with a Jupyter notebook to streamline it further ( https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VLG8e7Y…
    comment by minimaxir · 2019-10-13 · in Lessons Learned from Building an AI Writing App
  13. For finetuning GPT-2 on custom text, my gpt-2-simple package ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple ) gets close to going OOM when finetuning the 345M model, even on a 16GB VRAM server GPU. Doubling the size of the model with the 774M…
    comment by minimaxir · 2019-08-20 · in GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up
  14. …sentence and it will generate a few paragraphs that sound like Trump completing the thought. I used https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple and some other stuff to re-train, with Starlette being the python web server. I'll write up a…
    comment by BlackJack · 2019-07-11 · in Show HN: Trump to Text (Natural Language Generation)
  15. …too long to train? You could easily finetune a pretrained GPT2 model on your lovecraft dataset : https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    comment by nestorD · 2019-06-24 · in LSTM: How to Train Neural Networks to Write Like Lovecraft
  16. …believe has powered some of the GPT-2 projects you might've seen recently like Talk to Transformer: https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple
    comment by gwern · 2019-06-19 · in This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist
  17. …cool! You mentioned OpenAI in another post - it's not that hard to use the GPT-2 model. Check out https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple for a quickstart. Would be curious to see how the music generation goes if you re-train your data…
    comment by BlackJack · 2019-06-03 · in A Teen Programmer Built a Tool to Generate Fake Lyrics for Your Favorite Artists
  18. …tools to streamline GPT-2 text generation: I'm currently porting the code above to gpt-2-simple ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-2-simple ) to allow easy finetuning/generation, and am also working on a way to quickly build an API/client…
    comment by minimaxir · 2019-05-05 · in OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model
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