---
title: "Training CausalLM Models Part 1: What Actually Is CausalLM?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/training-causallm-models-part-1-what-actually-is-causallm--yjmuxiper
source_url: https://towardsdatascience.com/training-causallm-models-part-1-what-actually-is-causallm-6c3efb2490ec
type: article
source: "Towards Data Science"
published: 2024-03-08T18:12:19.904Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:05.588Z
tags: ["machine-learning", "deep-learning", "nlp", "llm", "huggingface"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Training CausalLM Models Part 1: What Actually Is CausalLM?

**[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

This post explains what CausalLM is and how to train a CausalLM model using HuggingFace. It discusses the difference between encoder-only and decoder-only models and provides a worked example of the training process.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://towardsdatascience.com/training-causallm-models-part-1-what-actually-is-causallm-6c3efb2490ec>

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