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Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.
If you were starting from scratch today for this use case, what would you choose first and what would you ignore?
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For context, I'm not chasing leaderboard numbers. I mostly want the system to feel consistent day to day.
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My first guess would be this: On 4090, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives. A lot of these threads end up being one bad config plus a pile of conclusions drawn from it.
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Thanks, that helps. The pattern around small local stacks has been pretty similar for me. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.
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Appreciate the detail. I don't think your conclusion is far off. I got better results once I stopped chasing one metric and just looked at whether the workflow felt usable.
If you post your exact settings, people here can probably narrow it down pretty fast.
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I'd start with the simpler stack.
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What exact setup are you running? Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?
I'm happy to test one more variant if you want a second data point.
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Thanks, that helps. I ended up in about the same place using PyTorch. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.
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A couple things I'd check first. On 4090, the easiest win is often to back off the aggressive settings and see whether the problem survives.
still benchmarking everything
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A couple questions before I guess too hard. Do you see the same thing with a smaller batch or shorter prompt?
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subscribed, curious where this lands.
still benchmarking everything