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1,390 claims from 864 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,344 have no check with a result yet.

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Status: Unchecked Keyword: emergent capabilities Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

    Jason, Tay, Bommasani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

    The paper discusses emergent abilities of large language models, which appear only in larger models, and says their existence implies further scaling could widen what language models can do.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper defines emergent abilities as absent in smaller models but present in larger ones, so they cannot be predicted by extrapolating from smaller models.“Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.”

  2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute

    Tay, Jason, Chung et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Impressively, at 540B scale, we show an approximately 2x computational savings rate where U-PaLM achieves the same performance as the final PaLM 540B model at around half its computational budget (i.e., saving $\sim$4.4 million TPUv4 hours).”
    2. Unchecked“Overall, we show that U-PaLM outperforms PaLM on many few-shot setups, i.e., English NLP tasks (e.g., commonsense reasoning, question answering), reasoning tasks with chain-of-thought (e.g., GSM8K), multilingual tasks (MGSM, TydiQA), MMLU and challenging BIG…

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