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A model checkpoint shows you the result. The training logs and recipes show you how the team got there.
That’s what caught my eye in IFM’s xLLM release. I’d like to see what people can reproduce from the K2 Horizon materials they’ve shared.
The part of xLLM I’d test first is the data pipeline.
If changing a tokenizer or chat template really is a config change instead of another dataset reprocessing run, that could save a lot of frustrating work during model development. The repo is up, so people can dig into it.
The K2 Horizon example made xLLM’s flexibility easier for me to understand: moving from 8K to 512K context involved changing context parallelism from 1 to 4 and micro batch size from 16 to 1.
I’d be curious how that approach holds up across other training runs.