Model size and context length ablation study

Goal of the artifact

You’re going to build a tiny ablation study: a script/notebook plus a short ablation_experiments.md that compare at least two model variants and log:

  • validation loss
  • tokens/sec (throughput)

The twist: you’ll vary architecture knobs (layers/heads, width, sequence length) in a controlled way so you can say “this change likely caused that effect”.

We’ll walk this in four layers:

  1. Layers & heads
  2. Embedding dim & MLP size
  3. Sequence length
  4. Experiment design for fair comparisons (what your ablation_experiments.md should capture)
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