TinyTimV1: Fine-tuning TinyLlama on Finnegan's Wake

A project exploring the fine-tuning of TinyLlama-1.1B on James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake to generate Joyce-inspired text.

Overview

This project fine-tunes the TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat model on the complete text of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, creating a language model capable of generating text in Joyce's distinctive experimental style. The model learns to replicate the complex wordplay, neologisms, and stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques characteristic of Joyce's final work.

Files

• process_wake.py - Preprocesses the raw text, removes page numbers, and splits into manageable chunks
• fine_tune_joyce.py - Main training script using HuggingFace Transformers
• text_gen.py - Text generation script for the fine-tuned model
• finn_wake.txt - Complete text of Finnegan's Wake (1.51 MB)
• finn_wake.csv - Processed dataset in CSV format
• finn_wake_dataset/ - Tokenized dataset directory

Usage

1. Data Preprocessing

python process_wake.py

This removes page numbers and splits the text into 100-word chunks for training. 2. Fine-tuning

python fine_tune_joyce.py

Fine-tunes TinyLlama on the processed dataset for 3 epochs with CPU training. 3. Text Generation

python text_gen.py

Generates Joyce-inspired text using the fine-tuned model.

Model Details

Base Model: TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 Training Data: Finnegan's Wake (~1.5MB text) Training Parameters:

3 epochs Batch size: 1 Max sequence length: 128 tokens Temperature: 0.7 Top-k: 50, Top-p: 0.95

Example Output Input: "ae left to go to ireland and found a fairy" The model generates text continuing in Joyce's experimental style with invented words, Irish references, and complex linguistic play. Requirements transformers datasets pandas torch Installation bashpip install transformers datasets pandas torch Notes

Training was performed on CPU due to resource constraints Model checkpoints saved every 500 steps Resume training supported from checkpoints