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  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    It’s Not Just Size That Matters: Small Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners

    Schick and Schütze · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT) · 2021

    The paper reports that small language models, using cloze-style task descriptions and gradient-based training, can match GPT-3's few-shot performance with far fewer parameters.

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    1. UncheckedLanguage models with far fewer parameters than GPT-3, by several orders of magnitude, can reach similar few-shot performance, the paper reports.“We show that performance similar to GPT-3 can be obtained with language models that are much "greener" in that their parameter count is several orders of magnitude smaller.”

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