Minimal implementation of LiGO (Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training)

Create virtual environment and install dependencies

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements
cd core

• Train a small FC model from scratch for MNIST

cd core/
python3 main.py --model=fc1 --initializer=scratch

• Training deeper and wider FC model, with LiGO initialization from small model for MNIST

python3 main.py --model=fc2 --initializer=ligo --pretrain_model=fc1_scratch

• The main implementation is in ligo.py