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gpt-neo-125m

GPT-Neo-125M is EleutherAI's open recreation of the GPT-2 class of models, pre-trained on the Pile dataset as part of their open language model initiative. At 125M parameters it's a pedagogical and baseline research model rather than a practical text generator. MIT-licensed and available in multiple frameworks.

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Publisher (HF namespace)
EleutherAI
Pipeline tag
text-generation
Library
Transformers
Framework tags
PyTorch, JAX, Rust (candle)
Weight formats
safetensors
License tag
mit — read the license file in the repo before relying on it
Language tags
English (en)
Papers cited
arXiv:2101.00027
Datasets declared
EleutherAI/pile
Downloads (HF counter at last fetch)
502,268
Likes (HF counter at last fetch)
229
Model card
https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-neo-125m

Use cases

  • Teaching GPT-style language model concepts
  • Baseline comparison for sub-200M autoregressive models
  • Pretraining recipe research using Pile dataset
  • Fast iteration on fine-tuning pipelines before scaling

Pros

  • MIT license
  • Multiple framework exports: PyTorch, JAX, Rust, safetensors
  • Well-documented training and architecture details from EleutherAI
  • Pile training data gives broad English coverage

Cons

  • 125M parameters — not competitive with modern models on any practical task
  • Trained on an older corpus (Pile v1) with known quality and bias issues
  • Outperformed on most tasks by Qwen2-0.5B at a smaller parameter count
  • Causal LM format requires careful prompt engineering for task-specific use

Tags

transformerspytorchjaxrustsafetensorsgpt_neotext-generationtext generationcausal-lmendataset:EleutherAI/pilearxiv:2101.00027license:mitendpoints_compatibleregion:usdeploy:sagemakerdeploy:azure