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Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models research paper by Google DeepMind, 2022

Google DeepMind · Training and scaling · Mar 29, 2022 · 4,035 citations · 13 upvotes

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Chinchilla: for a fixed compute budget, train a smaller model on more data; parameters and tokens should grow together.

By Jordan Hoffmann, Sebastian Borgeaud, Arthur Mensch and 19 more · arXiv 2203.15556 · PDF · Code

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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35
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4,035, 375 influential · Semantic Scholar
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13 · Hugging Face
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