GSoC Office Hours - August 8,2024

Contributing GSoC
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Hello,

GSoC office hours will begin in 30 minutes.
Jenkins GSoC 2024 Office Hours Meeting Agenda and Notes - Google Docs.

Meeting recording and meeting notes will be shared in this thread below.

Thanks,
alyssa

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Attendees: AT, Danyang, Kris, Sridhar, Valentin, Phillip

Agenda:

  • GSoC contributor updates, any challenges/roadblocks?
    • LLM Model – Nour
      • Converting model to GGML format
      • Quantization with llama.cpp

Sized around 4GB [Link to the model]

  • Updated readme with how to continue training the model and convert to binary format to run on CPU

  • Had many trials fine-tuning the model

  • eos token and llama3 trial for the next week

  • Infra Statistics UI – Shlomo

    • Completed basically all the original goals
    • Stretch goal for the next few weeks is to work on a dark mode for the new stats site

  • GitHub Permissions - Danyang

    • Made some update of the features locally based on feedback of PR
    • Will finish and push all the change before the end of this week

  • Maintainability for the RPU – Phillipp

    • Continued locally with more work
    • Wait for get PR merged

  • OpenRewrite – Sridhar

    • Caching JDKs locally and switching between them is completed
    • Written tests to improve overall test coverage
    • Will work on reporting metadata data in a common place
    • Will add more recipes

  • Jenkins online meetup: Final presentation > Thursday, August 29 @ 1PM UTC

  • Individual project blog posts by GSoC contributors: Aug 19 - Sept 2

    • Samples 1, 2
    • Suggestions:
      • A short description of the goals of the project.
      • What you did.
      • The current state.
      • What’s left to do.
      • Include screenshots of your work/result
      • Any challenges or important things you learned during the project.

  • Mentors: Submit final evaluation > begins Aug 26; deadline Sept 2 @ 6PM UTC

  • Last office hour: August 22.

    • We’d like to hear your reflection on overall experience.
    • Your words of advice for future candidates