The Smol Training Playbook
A training account that includes failed experiments and engineering decisions.
The SmolLM team explains how data mixtures, architecture choices and training operations interact in a complete model project. Its account of setbacks makes it useful for planning experiments rather than copying a final recipe without context.
- Level
- Expert
- Models
- any
- Category
- Model Training
- Tags
- build-log
- Source date
- date not stated
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
- Prerequisites
- Acts on model-training, infrastructure or research tooling; requires training-stack expertise.
- Subcategory
- pretraining
- Region
- other
- Original language
- en
- Access
- free
- Resource reuse
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