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+base_model: google/gemma-3-270m-it
+# optionally might have model_type or tokenizer_type
+model_type: AutoModelForCausalLM
+tokenizer_type: AutoTokenizer
+# Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+# hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+# gemma3 doesn't seem to play nice with ddp
+ddp_find_unused_parameters: true
+
+load_in_8bit: false
+load_in_4bit: true
+
+# huggingface repo
+chat_template: gemma3
+eot_tokens:
+  - <end_of_turn>
+datasets:
+  - path: cgato/SlimOrcaDedupCleaned
+    type: chat_template
+    field_messages: conversations
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: from
+      content: value
+
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+
+adapter: qlora
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_linear: true
+
+sequence_len: 2048
+sample_packing: true
+eval_sample_packing: false
+
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+bf16: auto
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+  use_reentrant: false
+resume_from_checkpoint:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch:
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+special_tokens: