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&lt;p&gt;I am training AzNEOBERT — an Azerbaijani encoder language model from scratch, based on the NeoBERT architecture. The model runs on 8× NVIDIA H200 GPUs via SLURM, trained on ~12.2B tokens of Azerbaijani text across 11 corpus collections. Infrastructure stack: DeepSpeed ZeRO-2, Flash Attention 3, and &lt;code&gt;torch.compile&lt;/code&gt;, reaching 1.24M tokens/sec throughput. Loss dropped from 11.1 (random init) to 2.35 within the first 4,100 steps.&lt;/p&gt;</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://raufibishov.com/projects/az-neobert/feature.svg"/></item><item><title>Azerbaijani Tokenizer — Three Algorithms, 64k Vocab, 1.727 Fertility</title><link>http://raufibishov.com/projects/az-tokenizer/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://raufibishov.com/projects/az-tokenizer/</guid><description>&lt;style&gt;
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