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8 claims from 4 papers

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

   Hoffmann, Borgeaud, Mensch et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The authors study how to split a fixed compute budget between model size and training data, find that current large models are undertrained, and test this with Chinchilla, a 70B model.

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   1. UncheckedFor compute-optimal training, model size and training tokens should grow in equal proportion: doubling one means doubling the other.“By training over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens, we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally: for every doubling of model size the number of training tokens…”
   2. UncheckedChinchilla, a 70B-parameter model, beat four much larger language models, including Gopher and GPT-3, across a wide range of downstream tasks, according to the paper.“Chinchilla uniformly and significantly outperforms Gopher (280B), GPT-3 (175B), Jurassic-1 (178B), and Megatron-Turing NLG (530B) on a large range of downstream evaluation tasks.”
   3. UncheckedChinchilla, a 70B-parameter model, reached 67.5% average accuracy on the MMLU benchmark, over 7% higher than Gopher, which the paper calls state of the art.“As a highlight, Chinchilla reaches a state-of-the-art average accuracy of 67.5% on the MMLU benchmark, greater than a 7% improvement over Gopher.”

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   EDP: An Efficient Decomposition and Pruning Scheme for Convolutional Neural Network Compression

   Ruan, Liu, Yuan et al. · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2020

   The paper proposes EDP, a scheme that compresses convolutional networks by decomposing layers and pruning channels in one training stage, and reports good compression against 17 competitors.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's compressed-aware block is said to do low-rank decomposition and channel pruning together in a single data-driven training stage.“In this way, the proposed compressed-aware block simultaneously achieves low-rank decomposition and channel pruning by only one single data-driven training stage.”

3. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

   Peng, Alcaide, Anthony et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The paper proposes RWKV, an architecture combining Transformer-style parallel training with RNN-style efficient inference, scaled to 14 billion parameters and reported to match similarly sized Transformers.

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   1. UncheckedRWKV uses linear attention so it can run as a Transformer when training and as an RNN when generating, with constant cost per step at inference.“Our approach leverages a linear attention mechanism and allows us to formulate the model as either a Transformer or an RNN, thus parallelizing computations during training and maintains constant computational and memory complexity during inference.”

4. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Deep Ensembling with No Overhead for either Training or Testing: The All-Round Blessings of Dynamic Sparsity

   Liu, Chen, Atashgahi et al. · TU/e Research Portal · 2021

   The paper proposes FreeTickets, an ensemble of sparse subnetworks from dynamic sparse training, which it reports beats a dense baseline on accuracy, uncertainty, robustness and efficiency.

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   1. UncheckedThe FreeTickets ensemble method is reported to use fewer parameters and fewer training FLOPs than one dense model, despite combining several networks.“Despite being an ensemble method, FreeTickets has even fewer parameters and training FLOPs than a single dense model.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that FreeTickets, an ensemble of sparse subnetworks, beats a single dense network on accuracy, uncertainty, robustness and efficiency.“FreeTickets surpasses the dense baseline in all the following criteria: prediction accuracy, uncertainty estimation, out-of-distribution (OoD) robustness, as well as efficiency for both training and inference.”
   3. UncheckedFreeTickets, a sparse-subnetwork ensemble, is reported to beat a naive ResNet50 deep ensemble on ImageNet using around one fifth of its training FLOPs.“Impressively, FreeTickets outperforms the naive deep ensemble with ResNet50 on ImageNet using around only 1/5 of the training FLOPs required by the latter.”