Training runs out of memory with no sizing guidance
Pretraining and tokenizer training run out of CPU or GPU memory with no guidance on sizing batches, workers, or data loading.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 3 June 2025 · last reported 4 August 2025
What's going wrong
Learners running the tutorial's pretraining, tokenizer training, and fine-tuning steps report memory use that climbs until the process is killed or the GPU runs out of memory.
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