It looks like the config file at './checkpoints/progen2-large' is not a valid JSON file.

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Cause: Incorrect directory context of the pretrained models, i.e. progen2-large.

Solution: mkdir progen2-large in ./checkpoints dir mv config.json pytorch_model.bin ./progen2-large

rerun the python sample.py ****

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