Training Large Language Models using Airflow

Airflow

Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for authoring, scheduling and monitoring data and computing workflows. It was first developed by Airbnb and is now under the Apache Software Foundation. Airflow uses Python to create workflows that can be easily scheduled and monitored. Airflow can help you move data from one source to a destination, filter datasets, apply data policies, manipulation, monitoring and even call microservices to trigger database management tasks. It can be used for batch jobs, organizing, monitoring, and executing workflows automatically. Airflow has been used by many companies for various use cases such as ETL pipelines, machine learning workflows, data warehousing, and more.

Large Language Models

Large language models (LLMs) are machine learning models that utilize deep learning algorithms to process and understand language. They're trained with immense amounts of data to learn patterns and relationships, which helps them make better predictions and groupings. LLMs are capable of processing vast amounts of data, which leads to improved accuracy in prediction and classification tasks. LLMs have been used in many applications such as text generation, translation, summarization, question answering, and more . LLMs are popular because they have shown great success in many natural language processing tasks and have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many benchmarks. They are also popular because they can be fine-tuned for specific tasks with relatively small amounts of data.
Open source orchestrators like Airflow are one of the primary means by which companies train large language models in production. Airflow offers a mechanism to schedule and monitor these jobs as part of more complex workflow graphs. Kaspian has a native operator for Airflow; this operator makes it easy to either swap to or get started with training pipelines that utilize Kaspian's flexible compute layer, with native support for autoscaling, GPU acceleration, and more.
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