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7 claims from 5 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 › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Deep double descent: where bigger models and more data hurt*

   Nakkiran, Kaplun, Bansal, Yang, Barak and Sutskever · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2021

   The paper shows that modern deep learning tasks display double descent, defines an effective model complexity to unify the effects, and identifies regimes where more training data hurts test performance.

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   1. UncheckedDouble descent, where test performance gets worse then better, is reported to occur as training epochs increase, not only as model size increases.“Moreover, we show that double descent occurs not just as a function of model size, but also as a function of the number of training epochs.”

3. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

   Lin, Hilton and Evans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“The best model was truthful on 58% of questions, while human performance was 94%.”

4. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Optimal Regularization Can Mitigate Double Descent

   Nakkiran, Venkat, Kakade and Ma · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Theoretically, we prove that for certain linear regression models with isotropic data distribution, optimally-tuned $\ell_2$ regularization achieves monotonic test performance as we grow either the sample size or the model size.”

5. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Inverse scaling can become U-shaped

   Jason, Najoung, Tay and Le · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“With this increased range of model sizes and training compute, only four out of the eleven tasks remain inverse scaling.”
   2. Unchecked“In addition, we find that 1-shot examples and chain-of-thought can help mitigate undesirable scaling patterns even further.”
   3. Unchecked“Six out of the eleven tasks exhibit "U-shaped scaling", where performance decreases up to a certain size, and then increases again up to the largest model evaluated (the one remaining task displays positive scaling).”