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
What it shows
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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About this paper
- Venue
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35
- Citations
- 4,035, 375 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 13 · Hugging Face
- Lab
- Google DeepMind · on Companies · on Acquisitions
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