nanochat

Nanochat is a pedagogical repo that walks through the essentials of a chat LLM without heavy frameworks. It includes a compact training loop, a straightforward inference script, and a lightweight interface so you can prompt, iterate, and observe behavior in real time. The goal is clarity over bells and whistles: small models that run on a single GPU or even CPU, simple data formatting for instruction tuning, and easy hooks to tweak sampling, prompts, or checkpoints. It is ideal for students and practitioners who want to understand how a chatbot pipeline fits together end to end, then adapt the code for custom demos, classroom labs, or prototype copilots.