Warning: my custom GPT model crashed after training on 10,000 images
I was building a model to sort local wildlife photos from my trail cams in Boulder. After about 8 hours of training on a set of 10,000 images, the whole thing just froze and corrupted the dataset. I had to restart from a backup I made 2 days ago. Has anyone else had a training job fail that far in, and what did you do to fix it?
Ugh, that's the worst feeling. I feel your pain, losing that much progress is a huge setback. @the_piper has a point about bad files, maybe one weird corrupted image from a trail cam messed it all up. I had a model crash once because of a single broken PNG that looked fine to me. Now I run a quick cleanup script to check file integrity before any big training job, it saves so much headache.