What Language Model to Train if You Have One Million GPU Hours? (2022.findings-emnlp)
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Teven Le Scao, Thomas Wang, Daniel Hesslow, Stas Bekman, M Saiful Bari, Stella Biderman, Hady Elsahar, Niklas Muennighoff, Jason Phang, Ofir Press, Colin Raffel, Victor Sanh, Sheng Shen, Lintang Sutawika, Jaesung Tae, Zheng Xin Yong, Julien Launay, Iz Beltagy
| Challenge: | Recent years have seen the advent of large language models characterized by emergent capabilities arising from sheer scale alone. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a multilingual model to compare performance to the English-only model by ablation at the billion-parameter scale. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on a multilingual model and its performance against the English-only model. |
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