Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models
Hoffmann et al., 2022, Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022))
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3 Estimating the optimal parameter/training tokens allocation
- How did the Chinchilla authors gather data on scaling?By training over 400 language models, from 70M to over 16B parameters, on 5B to 500B tokens, with learning-rate schedules matched to the number of training tokens.
- Hoffmann et al., 2022, Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022)), §3
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- Jordan Hoffmann, Sebastian Borgeaud, Arthur Mensch, Elena Buchatskaya, Trevor Cai, Eliza Rutherford, Diego de Las Casas, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Johannes Welbl, Aidan Clark, Tom Hennigan, Eric Noland, Katie Millican, George van den Driessche, Bogdan Damoc, Aurelia Guy, Simon Osindero, Karen Simonyan, Erich Elsen, Oriol Vinyals, Jack W. Rae and Laurent Sifre. 2022. Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 (NeurIPS 2022). https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/c1e2faff6f588870935f114ebe04a3e5-Abstract-Conference.html