Good question: It’s 5x faster because we’re able to fit 5x larger batch sizes!
@reach_vb
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Fine-tuning Whisper now possible on consumer GPUs
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Hahaha! I’ll rephrase a bit: “Okay, so now I can have a whisper finetuned on a consumer GPU”
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Fine-tuning Whisper with Common Voice 13 Guide
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Last but not the least! This guide also walks you through the process of fine-tuning a Whisper checkpoint with Common Voice 13!
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PEFT Enables Sub-60MB Model Checkpoints for Portability
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It gets better, thanks to the magic of PEFT, the resultant checkpoints are less than 60MB in size! Thereby, making a strong case for model weights portability! Learn more about it here:
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PEFT enables Whisper large fine-tuning on consumer GPUs efficiently
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For a full fine-tuning run, on a @GoogleColab T4 GPU, Whisper large model throws an OOM. Through PEFT, we are not just able to fine-tune the Whisper large checkpoint but also squeeze in a batch size of 24 in < 8GB VRAM on a consumer GPU
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5x Faster Whisper Fine-tuning with LoRA and PEFT
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After 70x faster Whisper, we present to you – 5x faster Whisper fine-tuning! Powered by LoRA and PEFT – Squeeze in 5x larger batch sizes, fit Whisper-large checkpoint < 8GB VRAM! Best part? With almost no degradation in WER! Check it out: https://
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Hugging Face Hub Integration for Open Source AI Launch
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Yayy! @ritakozlov
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Community Pushes SoTA with Transformers and PEFT
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Wohooo! Using transformers and PEFT under the hood.. so cool to see the community using the HF ecosystem to continually challenge the current SoTA!
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Hugging Face Open-Sources ChatGPT UI Toolkit
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Want to build your own ChatGPT UI? Look no more We open-sourced our entire toolkit that powers Hugging Chat! Load it up and pair it up with your favourite LLM! P.S. You can also run it in a Space too Don't forget to share your feedback https://
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Twitter Blocks Hugging Face Chat URLs Without Explanation
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.@TwitterSupport – “
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hf.co chat” URLs are blocked on Twitter, is there any specific reason?
We’ve been trying to reach via the support form but haven’t heard anything!