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Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

The study examines how to allocate a training-compute budget between model size and training data.

Jordan Hoffmann et al.
2022-03 · Google · Research paper
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A foundation for reasoning about training budgets rather than parameter counts alone.

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@misc{hoffmann2022training,
  title = {Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models},
  author = {Jordan Hoffmann and Sebastian Borgeaud and Arthur Mensch and Elena Buchatskaya and Trevor Cai and Eliza Rutherford and Diego de Las Casas and Lisa Anne Hendricks and Johannes Welbl and Aidan Clark and Tom Hennigan and Eric Noland and Katie Millican and George van den Driessche and Bogdan Damoc and Aurelia Guy and Simon Osindero and Karen Simonyan and Erich Elsen and Jack W. Rae and Oriol Vinyals and Laurent Sifre},
  year = {2022},
  eprint = {2203.15556},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556}
}

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