makemore
A small, hackable character-level language model that learns patterns from line-based text files and generates similar items, such as name ideas.
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Overview
makemore is a small Python program that learns character patterns from text with one item per line and generates new items resembling the examples. It helps create more names, company names, or word-like strings from a list. Run it with an input file and output directory to train a model; training logs and the model are saved there. Model choices range from bigrams to a Transformer, and you can generate more samples from the best saved model.
Key features
- Train on a text file with one item per line and save logs and the model to an output directory.
- Generate new character sequences that resemble the training text.
- Choose among bigram, MLP, RNN, LSTM, GRU, and Transformer models; CNN is in progress.
- Use --sample-only to generate samples from the best saved model.
Best for
Learners exploring character-level language models and people who want to generate name-like or word-like examples from a text list.
- Upstream
- karpathy/makemore
- Fork on GitHub
- Guo-astro/makemore
- Upstream stars
- 4.5k
- Category
- AI agents and LLM tools
- License
- MIT
- Forked
- 2026-10-09
- Sync status
- In syncLast synced 2026-11-08
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