Training Large Language Models using Prefect

Prefect

Prefect is an open-source workflow management system that allows you to build, schedule, and monitor data workflows. It enables you to transform any Python function into a unit of work that can be observed and orchestrated. Prefect can be used for various use cases such as ETL pipelines, machine learning workflows, data warehousing, and more. It has a dynamic engine and ephemeral API that makes it easy to run workflows interactively during the building phase. Prefect also offers the ability to cache and persist inputs and outputs for large files and expensive operations, improving development time when debugging.

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 Prefect are one of the primary means by which companies train large language models in production. Prefect offers a mechanism to schedule and monitor these jobs as part of more complex workflow graphs. Kaspian has a native operator for Prefect; 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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