Tamil-first LLM trainer openly shares how the 1.5B version looped and rambled

lmoroney · x · 2026-10-12

lmoroney praises the Agaram author for being open about the 1.5B version looping and rambling, and about reworking the corpus and synthetic data before trying again — a process he calls highly useful for anyone training a model from scratch.

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