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# nanoGPT

**What:** The simplest repo to train small GPTs.

**Why:** Teach a model your data and style.

**Category:** Fine-tuning · **Stack layer:** model

## Status

Catalog entry. Existence and repo metadata checked 2026-10-15 via the GitHub API. Install commands below are auto-extracted from the README and have NOT been executed or verified. Read the README before running anything; prefer a sandbox or venv.

## Install (unverified)

1. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install torch numpy transformers datasets tiktoken wandb tqdm
```

## Verify

No verified check yet. Minimum: the install command exits 0 and the tool's own help/version flag runs (exact flag: see README).

## Rollback (unverified)

1. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
pip uninstall -y torch
```

## Links

- Repo: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
- README: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT#readme