distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan

A PyTorch-based system for pretraining large language models across many GPUs. It supports splitting training work across data, tensor, pipeline, and context dimensions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pretrain Llama 3.1, DeepSeek V3, or custom models with distributed checkpoints, Float8, and compiled PyTorch execution.
Why use it?
It provides a defined way to configure, launch, monitor, and checkpoint large model training across one or more machines.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chemany/mente/torchtitan
Any agent
npx skills add chemany/Mente --skill torchtitan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chemany/Mente

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,641 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00083 $0.02641
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01321
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00528
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00264

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1341b2727f33, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/mlops/torchtitan/SKILL.md · 362 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 362 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TorchTitan - PyTorch Native Distributed LLM Pretraining

Quick start

TorchTitan is PyTorch's official platform for large-scale LLM pretraining with composable 4D parallelism (FSDP2, TP, PP, CP), achieving 65%+ speedups over baselines on H100 GPUs.

Installation:

# From PyPI (stable)
pip install torchtitan

# From source (latest features, requires PyTorch nightly)
git clone https://github.com/pytorch/torchtitan
cd torchtitan
pip install -r requirements.txt

Download tokenizer:

# Get HF token from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens
python scripts/download_hf_assets.py --repo_id meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B --assets tokenizer --hf_token=...

Start training on 8 GPUs:

CONFIG_FILE="./torchtitan/models/llama3/train_configs/llama3_8b.toml" ./run_train.sh

Common workflows

Workflow 1: Pretrain Llama 3.1 8B on single node

Copy this checklist:

Single Node Pretraining:
- [ ] Step 1: Download tokenizer
- [ ] Step 2: Configure training
- [ ] Step 3: Launch training
- [ ] Step 4: Monitor and checkpoint

Step 1: Download tokenizer

python scripts/download_hf_assets.py \
  --repo_id meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B \
  --assets tokenizer \
  --hf_token=YOUR_HF_TOKEN

Step 2: Configure training

Edit or create a TOML config file:

# llama3_8b_custom.toml
[job]
dump_folder = "./outputs"
description = "Llama 3.1 8B training"

[model]
name = "llama3"
flavor = "8B"
hf_assets_path = "./assets/hf/Llama-3.1-8B"

[optimizer]
name = "AdamW"
lr = 3e-4

[lr_scheduler]
warmup_steps = 200

[training]
local_batch_size = 2
seq_len = 8192
max_norm = 1.0
steps = 1000
dataset = "c4"

[parallelism]
data_parallel_shard_degree = -1  # Use all GPUs for FSDP

[activation_checkpoint]
mode = "selective"
selective_ac_option = "op"

[checkpoint]
enable = true
folder = "checkpoint"
interval = 500

Step 3: Launch training

# 8 GPUs on single node
CONFIG_FILE="./llama3_8b_custom.toml" ./run_train.sh

# Or explicitly with torchrun
torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 \
  -m torchtitan.train \
  --job.config_file ./llama3_8b_custom.toml

Read the full file on GitHub · 362 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 362 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 1341b2727f33

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distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan is a skill published in the GitHub repository chemany/Mente (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 2,641 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to distributed-llm-pretraining-torchtitan, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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