diff --git a/configs/deepspeed/ds_config_pythiaseek.json b/configs/deepspeed/ds_config_pythiaseek.json
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+{
+	"train_batch_size": "auto",
+	"gradient_accumulation_steps": "auto",
+	"train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu": "auto",
+	"fp16": {
+	  "enabled": "auto",
+	  "min_loss_scale": 1,
+	  "loss_scale_window": 1000,
+	  "hysteresis": 2,
+	  "initial_scale_power": 32
+	},
+	"bf16": {
+		"enabled": "auto"
+	},
+	"gradient_clipping": 1.0,
+	"zero_optimization": {
+	  "stage": 2,
+	  "offload_param": {
+		"device": "none"
+	  },
+	  "offload_optimizer": {
+		"device": "none"
+	  },
+	  "allgather_partitions": true,
+	  "allgather_bucket_size": 5e8,
+	  "contiguous_gradients": true
+	},
+	"optimizer": {
+		"type": "AdamW",
+		"params": {
+		  "lr": "auto",
+		  "betas": [
+			0.9,
+			0.999
+		  ],
+		  "eps": 1e-08
+		}
+	  }
+}
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diff --git a/configs/train/finetune_pythiaseek.yaml b/configs/train/finetune_pythiaseek.yaml
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+# model/tokenizer
+model_name: "EleutherAI/pythia-1b"
+tokenizer_name: "EleutherAI/pythia-1b"
+version: null
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+save_name: "nomic-ai/pythiaseek-large-bs"
+push_to_hub: false
+encoder_dim: 384
+learnable_alpha: true
+cross_attn_layer: 9
+freeze_pretrained: false
+
+# dataset
+streaming: false
+num_proc: 604
+dataset_path: "/home/paperspace/gpt4all/gpt4all/index/squad_supplemented_train" 
+max_length: 1024
+batch_size: 32
+pct_test: 0.05
+q_column: "question"
+a_column: "answers"
+encoder_column: "neighbor_embeddings"
+
+
+# train dynamics
+lr: 1.0e-4
+min_lr: 0 
+weight_decay: 0.0
+eval_every: 50 
+save_every: -1
+log_grads_every: 100
+log_lr_every: 10
+output_dir: "ckpts/learnable_alpha"
+checkpoint: null
+lora: false
+warmup_steps: 500
+num_epochs: 5 
+debug: false
+scheduler: false
+
+# logging
+wandb: true
+wandb_entity: gpt4all
+wandb_project_name: retrieval
+seed: 42
+