diff --git a/examples/run_preview_samples.sh b/examples/run_preview_samples.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Print detokenized samples from a dataset / tokenizer specified in "--config-file" 
+
+set -e -x
+
+EXAMPLE_PATH=$(cd -- "$(dirname "$0")" >/dev/null 2>&1 ; pwd -P)
+REPO_PATH=$(dirname $EXAMPLE_PATH)
+
+export CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS=1
+export FI_PROVIDER="efa"
+
+python -u -m torch.distributed.run \
+    --nproc_per_node 8 \
+    --nnodes 1 \
+    --rdzv_backend c10d \
+    --max_restarts 0 \
+    --tee 3 \
+    $REPO_PATH/run_preview_samples.py --config-file $EXAMPLE_PATH/config_tiny_llama.yaml
+
diff --git a/run_preview_samples.py b/run_preview_samples.py
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+"""
+Tool to preview first samples used for training
+
+https://github.com/huggingface/nanotron/issues/184
+
+Usage demonstrated in examples/run_preview_samples.sh. 
+"""
+
+import argparse
+
+from typing import Type, Union, cast
+
+import numpy as np
+from nanotron import logging
+from nanotron.config import DataArgs, DatasetStageArgs, NanosetDatasetsArgs, PretrainDatasetsArgs
+from nanotron.data.dataloader_builder import build_nanoset_dataloader
+from nanotron.dataloader import (
+    clm_process,
+    get_datasets,
+    get_train_dataloader,
+)
+
+from nanotron.parallel import ParallelContext
+from nanotron.config import Config
+from nanotron.logging import log_rank
+from nanotron.logging import warn_once
+from nanotron.trainer import DistributedTrainer
+import nanotron.trainer 
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
+
+try:
+    from huggingface_hub import __version__ as hf_hub_version
+    from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+    from transformers import __version__ as tf_version
+except ImportError:
+    hf_hub_version = None
+    tf_version = None
+
+logger = logging.get_logger(__name__)
+
+
+def _get_dataloader_and_tokenizer_from_data(
+    data: DataArgs,
+    config: Config,
+    parallel_context: ParallelContext
+):
+    sequence_length = config.tokens.sequence_length
+    micro_batch_size = config.tokens.micro_batch_size
+    consumed_train_samples = 0
+    input_pp_rank, output_pp_rank = 0, int(parallel_context.pp_pg.size() - 1)
+
+    # HuggingFace datasets
+    if isinstance(data.dataset, PretrainDatasetsArgs):
+        log_rank("Using `datasets` library", logger=logger, level=logging.INFO, rank=0)
+        tokenizer_path = config.tokenizer.tokenizer_name_or_path
+        log_rank(
+            f"Loading tokenizer from {tokenizer_path} and transformers/hf_hub versions {tf_version, hf_hub_version}",
+            logger=logger,
+            level=logging.INFO,
+            rank=0)
+
+        raw_dataset = get_datasets(
+            hf_dataset_or_datasets=data.dataset.hf_dataset_or_datasets,
+            hf_dataset_config_name=data.dataset.hf_dataset_config_name,
+            splits=data.dataset.hf_dataset_splits,
+        )["train"]
+
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_path)
+        tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
+        tokenizer.padding_side = "left"
+
+        # We apply the Causal Language Modeling preprocessing
+        train_dataset = clm_process(
+            raw_dataset=raw_dataset,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            text_column_name=data.dataset.text_column_name,
+            dataset_processing_num_proc_per_process=data.dataset.dataset_processing_num_proc_per_process,
+            dataset_overwrite_cache=data.dataset.dataset_overwrite_cache,
+            sequence_length=sequence_length,
+        )
+
+        dataloader = get_train_dataloader(
+            train_dataset=train_dataset,
+            sequence_length=sequence_length,
+            parallel_context=parallel_context,
+            input_pp_rank=input_pp_rank,
+            output_pp_rank=output_pp_rank,
+            micro_batch_size=micro_batch_size,
+            consumed_train_samples=consumed_train_samples,
+            dataloader_num_workers=data.num_loading_workers,
+            seed_worker=data.seed,
+            dataloader_drop_last=True,
+        )
+    elif isinstance(data.dataset, NanosetDatasetsArgs):
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(config.tokenizer.tokenizer_name_or_path)
+        token_dtype = np.int32 if len(tokenizer) > np.iinfo(np.uint16).max + 1 else np.uint16
+
+        from nanotron.data.nanoset import Nanoset
+
+        train_dataset = Nanoset(
+            dataset_paths=data.dataset.dataset_path,
+            dataset_weights=data.dataset.dataset_weights,
+            sequence_length=sequence_length,
+            token_dtype=token_dtype,
+            train_split_num_samples=config.tokens.train_steps,
+            random_seed=data.seed,
+        )
+
+        # Prepare dataloader
+        dataloader = build_nanoset_dataloader(
+            train_dataset,
+            sequence_length,
+            parallel_context=parallel_context,
+            input_pp_rank=input_pp_rank,
+            output_pp_rank=output_pp_rank,
+            micro_batch_size=micro_batch_size,
+            consumed_train_samples=consumed_train_samples,
+            dataloader_num_workers=data.num_loading_workers,
+            dataloader_drop_last=True,
+        )
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"Unhandled case of `self.config.data.dataset`. Got: {data.dataset}")
+    return dataloader, tokenizer
+
+
+def check_dataloader_from_config(config_or_config_file: Union[Config, str],
+                                 config_class: Type[Config] = Config,
+                                 n: int = 6):
+    config = nanotron.trainer.get_config_from_file(config_or_config_file, config_class)
+    parallel_context = ParallelContext(
+            tensor_parallel_size=config.parallelism.tp,
+            pipeline_parallel_size=config.parallelism.pp,
+            data_parallel_size=config.parallelism.dp,
+            expert_parallel_size=config.parallelism.expert_parallel_size,
+        )
+    for stage_idx, stage in enumerate(config.data_stages):
+        stage = cast(DatasetStageArgs, stage)
+        warn_once(f"{stage.name}: {stage.data}", logger=logger, rank=0)
+
+        dataloader, tokenizer = _get_dataloader_and_tokenizer_from_data(stage.data, config, parallel_context)
+        checked_dataloader = nanotron.trainer.sanity_check_dataloader(dataloader, parallel_context, config)
+
+        if 0 == nanotron.distributed.get_rank(parallel_context.pp_pg):
+            for _ in range(n):
+                x = next(checked_dataloader)
+                to_decode = x["input_ids"]
+                warn_once(str(tokenizer.batch_decode(to_decode)), logger=logger, rank=0)
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--config-file", type=str, required=True, help="Path to the YAML or python config file")
+    parser.add_argument("-n", type=int, required=False, default=6, help="Number of rows to print")
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    args = get_args()
+    config_file = args.config_file
+    n = args.n
+    dataloader = check_dataloader_from_config(config_file, Config, n)
+