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GPT-USENET-6

HDTenEightyP October 15, 2026

Parameters

0.4B dense (421,772,288 serialized parameters)

Context Window

16,384 tokens

License

MIT License

Key Features

Small English base language model using the Transformers GPT2LMHeadModel architecture with the cl100k_base tokenizer associated with GPT-4-era models. Its configuration contains 24 transformer layers, 16 attention heads, 1,024-dimensional embeddings, and a 100,277-token vocabulary. The developer reports training it for 24 hours on a Google Colab G4 using approximately 30GB of USENET posts, web scrapes, and stories, reaching a training loss of 2.5916 and validation loss of 2.7335. The released checkpoint uses FP32 weights and supports a 16,384-token context window. It is a raw text-completion model rather than an instruction-following assistant, and its model card explicitly recommends supervised fine-tuning before practical use.

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